Barking Canine By no means Chew follows a person who goes to excessive lengths to take care of the canine which are always barking in and round his condominium advanced. Provided that it is a Bong Joon-ho movie, it most likely received’t shock you to be taught that the premise provides option to a pitch black comedy bolstered by social satire. In contrast to the director’s best later works, although, Bong Joon-ho is clearly nonetheless determining easy methods to stability this idea’s seemingly opposed tones and narrative twists.Â
The result’s a film that typically looks like extra of a collage of ideas than a whole work. It’s a surprisingly foolish form of comedy given its subject material, and its usually wonderful moments of suspense are a bit too scattered to supply greater than a imprecise reminder of different Bong Joon-ho motion pictures you’ve most likely already seen. Nonetheless, Barking Canine By no means Chew is a strong debut movie that even options a couple of fascinating prospers that the director by no means actually returned to however actually ought to (notably that fantastic soundtrack.)
7. Mickey 17 (2025)
Bong Joon-ho has by no means made a nasty film, although a few of his barely lesser works usually see the director boldly discover a wide range of concepts and attempt to make them match collectively as cleanly as potential earlier than the trip is over. Whereas opinions differ wildly on which of these fascinatingly imperfect works are finally extra profitable, Mickey 17 stands as maybe the director’s most evident instance of refusing to accept something lower than a giant swing.Â
Impressed by Edward Ashton’s 2022 sci-fi novel Mickey7, Mickey 17 explores the numerous penalties of a revolutionary and controversial piece of know-how that permits for in any other case “disposable” laborers to be cloned and revived after they inevitably die on some absurdly harmful project. Unsurprisingly, Bong Joon-ho makes use of that know-how to string a plot by means of the logical gaps that trigger capitalists to deal with such staff as each important and disposable. In its finest moments, Mickey 17 finds numerous enjoyable in its inherently darkish idea.Â
But, Mickey 17 has practically as many storylines as there are variations of Mickey. Some narrative revelations finally work higher than others, and the weaker features of the plot finally monopolize the expertise because it builds in direction of a combined finale. Whereas the film’s fantastic solid (Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette…) are recreation for all the things that comes their manner, even they’ll’t fairly anchor this huge challenge that reaches for masterpiece standing however usually falls barely quick.Â
6. Snowpiercer (2013)
Ideally, extra motion pictures would happen on trains. They provide an ideal contained atmosphere stuffed with fascinating characters that should work together with one another as they barrel in direction of a vacation spot/finale. Because it seems, a prepare can also be the proper place for Bong Joon-ho to discover a few of his wildest concepts whereas attempting to maintain all the things comparatively on-track.Â
