Natural City
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Movie Reviews of Natural City
Movie Review: Excellent Sci-Fi from South Korea
Summary: 5 Stars
Natural City is a visually stunning sci-fi movie produced in South Korea. It is dark, gritty, slow-moving film noir at its best. The plot revolves around a futuristic SWAT team hunting down rogue cyborgs and the love affair between one of the men and his cyborg girlfriend who is about to "expire". There are plenty of comparisons both in plot and in elements within the movie to Blade Runner, and in fact the director's cut of this film on Amazon is subtitled "Korean Blade Runner".
However, all of that said, Natural City is not a rip-off and is an awesome movie in its own right. It has an excellent story line, great acting, incredible visuals, action-packed scenes clearly inspired by The Matrix, and a very worthy Dolby Digital 5.1 surround soundtrack. The film has English subtitles; but otherwise, you would not be able to tell it apart from a Hollywood film. On the contrary, Hollywood hasn't produced science fiction on this level for quite some time.
In particular, many months were spent building small-scale models filmed for a lot of the special effects. I still find this technique of using miniatures "realistically superior" to 95% of the computer graphics produced these days.
If you love dark, post-apocalyptic, film noir science fiction then you will love this movie. It's worthy-enough to reside in your DVD collection next to Blade Runner and the Alien trilogy.
Movie Review: A NATURAL MASTERPIECE
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a wonderful surprise when I saw the movie. I personaly have never seen Blade runner but I think that if I saw it I would most likely not like it as much as NC. This is a dark story about R (played by Tae-yoo Ji) an MP who fell in love with a cyborg Ria (Rin Seo) he wants to spend the rest of his life with her. What is the problem? the cyborgs are made with a 3 year shelf life And Ria is three days away from shutting down. R wants to find a way to save her while at the same time he and his fellow MP'S are fighting cyborg rebels for some reason never explained decided to revolt against humans. This movie shows me how far some people are willing to go to save someone they love. Even if it means betrayal, murder, or there own death. The movie feels like if it was a chapter out of the Animatrix and it is also the way I,Robot should've been. My only advice is that if you have seen blade runner don't hate this movie if it really took ideas out of it. Cause there are alot of movies out there that have ripped off ideas and butchered them I think this was great.
Movie Review: Better Than Blade Runner, Unique and Well-Acted.
Summary: 5 Stars
I am one of the original oficionados of Blade Runner. This means that when no one thought it was worth a $&*&, I was already lost inside of it. Here was a film that investigated so many deep things and yet... it entertained.
Natural City is possibly even better, but this is 2008. We have learned a lot about film making. Like Blade Runner, it has a lot of action, it offers something (without hammering it into your head) to think about and surprise... A great yet unannoying love story.
The acting is great, story line efficient and visuals will pleasantly keep you lost for the length of the film, and wanting more.
Like Blade Runner, it will take you many painless viewings to appreciate how good this film is.
To the director, cast & crew: Please send more... I would lose myself in Natural City.
Movie Review: Favorite reinterpretation of Blade Runner
Summary: 5 Stars
A lot of movies try to reinterpret the vision and content of Blade Runner. They try to subsume some of its greatness, to operate on the same vistas, to charge the drama with the same kind of liveliness.
This movie has got to be the best of the lot. It goes so far as to tell a story, and had Blade Runner never existed this movie would be excellent. But the regular nods to Blade Runner make this movie more memorable and enjoyable to watch several times over because there are so many things going on in the cinematography while the story is playing out.
Movie Review: Lovely Flick...
Summary: 5 Stars
Too many people sit down expecting BLADE RUNNER. If you do not do this you will enjoy this film. It's NOT Blade Runner, it is a totally different film. I found it very enjoyable. It's so nice to see a well done Sci-Fi movie since there are not enough of these IMO. Thankfully it is subtitled instead of dubbed. That way you get the story close to how it was written instead of a horrible new story that makes the english somewhat match the lip movements. I hate when they do that!