ultramatt2000-1
Before I start, this is the first time I commented on a Korean monster film, my previous films I commented were American and Japanese. Now let's begin. The film is a combo between INDEPENDENCE DAY, DESTROY ALL MONSTERS, and the 1998 GODZILLA. No one has ever attempted to do that. Remake a forgotten classic. The miniatures were well done, but the CGI spaceships and monsters, look like something from BEAST WARS. Plus the aliens in the ship, were puppets. Lousy. Yonngary starts out as an atagonist, to a protagonist.Cyker sounds like a POKEMON name. But is a combo between a tortise, and a scorpion. I saw this on the Sci-Fi channel recently. But two years ago, I made Power Point presentation on this film and other Korean monster flicks, like 1967's YONGARY: MONSTER FROM THE DEEP, A*P*E*, PULGASARI, just to name afew. This lead me to high grades, since I decided to do a presintation on something no one has ever seen nor heard of. Does anyone one want a sequel to this movie? Erm (clear throat), no. Zero-Nine Pictures (est. 1993 with the first film, YOUNG-GOO AND DINOSAUR ZUZU) has announced that they are making a film called D-WAR about dragons attacking medival and modern day Korea. It is due out in 2004. But when it will be dubbed in English? I have no idea. Oh well, at least this film won at the 1999 Cannes film festival. Got updated in 2001 as 2001 YONGGARY (US video title REPTILIAN). Cool flick eh?
klolson54
The good of this film is that the monster effects, artistically speaking, are excellent despite other reviews likely to be contrary. The bad news is the acting...whether its the direction or the talent, it doesn't matter. This one begs for the MST3K treatment. How can I differ so greatly with others on the effects issue? Well, from an artistic view, the drawings, as it were... the creative product of creatures, their movement, spacecraft and their activity and effects alone, are in fact elegant. The creature actually dodges attacks fluidly, something rarely seen in city crunching monster flicks. The reason other reviewers may well be harsh on the same subject is that these selfsame creatures and effects are poorly applied to the canvas so-to-speak. As though the glue on a paste-up were showing around the edges of the artwork. A direct description would be, the effects are translucent appearing and must be judged apart from the film itself... no really they must be judged apart ... because the effects LOOK like they ARE apart from the film. Too bad... the bad news out-weighs the good when the storytelling presentation is finally viewed.
kgsmith1
Um...well...it has a big Godzilla wannabe thing in it (Couldn't you just watch Godzilla?) Ok, fair question...well, it has rocketpacks (Ahem, THE ROCKETEER had better special effects?) ok, but...it has some laugh value for how bad it is (Couldn't you just watch Shrunken Heads so you can claim to have seen the worst ever?) Well yeah, I guess you could.Sorry, no reason to see this.
harveyrook
How on earth do movies like this get made? Is it like... "Hey! I've got a few hundred thousand to spare. Let's write a lame script with lots of bad dialogue, hire dozens of mediocre actors and throw in a bunch of stupid special effects! What a great idea!"There many scenes and lines that were just pointless. There were just there to fill up time. Then there was the lame 'B' plot about (plot spoiler again) the secret goverment agency trying to get their hands on the aliens. The whole development of this plot is little more than "I can't let the good guys destroy the monster, because then the aliens won't come down. And I must have the aliens. Bwahahah."Huh?
