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Netflix movie review: Space Sweepers – Song Joong-ki heads for the stars in Korea’s first big-budget sci-fi adventure
2.5/5 stars
Jo Sung-hee’s Space Sweepers, South Korea’s first big-budget space adventure, was supposed to hit cinemas last summer, but after the pandemic scuppered those plans it fell to Netflix to swoop in and save the day.
The film is packed to bursting with interstellar dogfights, robot sidekicks and wicked megalomaniacs, while the fate of the Earth hangs precariously in the balance. But it is so encumbered by its mission to get Korean cinema up to speed in the science fiction game that it…