Quick Movie Review: I'm A Cyborg, But That's OK

5/10

Park Chan-Wook, maker of Oldboy, Lady Vengeance and Sympathy For Mr Vengeance, three excellent movies, if of questionable morals, makes a bit of a mis-step with this odd movie.

It concerns a young lady who, upon being traumatised by her Granny's commital to an asylum becomes comvinced she is a cybertnetic organism - a cyborg.

Cue a trip to an asylum herself at the behest of her daft and prejudiced (if not mad herself) mother.

There she meets all manner of crazy folk including a boy in a cardboard mask who steals things, a liar, a man convinced he has to apologise for everything etc etc

Unfortunately that is about it - of course she gets entangled romantically, and goes through ups and downs, but the whole thing resembles nothing so much as One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest with all the fun and plot removed. It has little message, few jokes, and stilted performances notable in their difference fromt hose in his earlier films.

I laughed at a couple of bits, and her fantasies of acting out her cybernetic powers were ok, but I also yawned twice and wasn't really sorry to see it end.

So, a classic 5/10 then.

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