How can this movies producer Netflix ever be content with just letting it go on the small screen?
Apart from everything else, the digital effects are spectacular and the visual images beautiful.
Then it whooshes us to New York City and a world of cynicism, menace and danger.
Other critics, likeThe Hollywood Reporters Stephen Dalton, were less impressed with the film.
Regardless of how you choose to consume it,Okjais, by most critical accounts, worth the investment.
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The narrative dynamic is comparable toKing Kongin its way; but less adult and less obviously knowing.
The scenes at the beginning where Mija loses her footing and Okja instinctively improvises a rescue are tremendously conceived.
And the digital creation of Okja is itself brought off with terrific skill.
The pure energy and likability of this film make it such a pleasure.
Like the cumbersome hybrid animal at its heart, this beast is no beauty.
But it is a technically impressive and boldly original statement from a rising Asian auteur with increasingly international ambitions.
For all its wackiness,Okjais also a deeply humane film.
It goes to show: no venue is perfect.
As one character says of the new super-duper meat, Its all edible except for the squeal.
Viewers may feel theres rather more squeal here than they can easily swallow.
Less than subtle in their delivery for sure, but important reminders nonetheless.
