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The trailer was stellar, but the story is just your standard popcorn-in-the -sofa SF horror - OK but ultimately forgettable. Sound and music designs are top notch, and some visuals are good, but I was expecting a mindbogglingly high-concept romp into the darkest recess of space and psyche. The start was promising and the overall feel of the planet was good (very Dead Space) but after that it was just shallow dip into seen-before concepts. Now I like Flying Lotus, he is a great musician but he needs way better scrips if he is going to make more movies.

Or maybe this is his thing? Doing schlock in his spare time? You do you F. L. but I will not holding my breath until your next movie.

This is a hard one to review since it's deliberately bad made. The story reads a lot like a teenage manga - a young couple on a killing spree through present day South Korea, murdering cliché bad-guys they meet in unlikely ways.

There is nothing post apocalyptic in the story and I can't see why it's in the description, unless of course you consider present day to be post apocalyptic. If you are very generous the story could be about an alien invasion - It's implied and there are a few nods towards "Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut (the title being one). But there are a lot of things implied, like in the writings of a pretentious teenager. How old is the director anyway?

There are also scenes with a serene beauty, the audio and music is well made so I won't give it a 1. Still, it's bad, deliberately or not, and in my opinion not so bad that it's good.

And I don't mean the story alright? The artistic choices are downright baffling in a way that made me continuously ask myself "why". Why go through all this trouble to tell this story? Why this story? Why the odd language solutions? Why the anachronism? Is this about colonialism? I ought to be about colonialism because these people are terrible right?

I try to relax and enjoy the cinematic experience but experience what? The photo is good, the costumes are nice, the parts from modern day east Asia could have worked in a documentary. It's soup and meatloaf and dessert mixed as one dish. I would have liked it more if it was just abstract. Now I'm just annoyed, provoked and thinking whether I'm thinking too much or not thinking enough. At least the story will lead somewhere, right? Whelp, never mind.