Okja Reviews

Amazing Story to showcase how determination and love can make anything happen. This small girl from nowhere fights big battle just because her focus was extremely clear and certain.

Beautiful movie! Great story with perfect casting, especially for Mija.

Don't miss the post-credits scene.

3 stars just for wierdness, becuase characters are uniformly too stupid and stereotyped. The Mirando/Monsanto stuff versus animalists/white terrorists is good stuff.

To be honest, when I noticed that this movie was dealing with some kind of mythical magical beast, I had my doubts about the damned thing but since I have seen almost all the movies directed by Bong Joon Ho and since this movie was directly available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, as usual with this director, it ended up being a mix of many different things such as a family feature, some science-fiction, some social commentary, some comedy,... and, honestly, even though this mix was interesting, I can't say I was really blown away. I mean, it was well made, some scenes were even rather impressive visually speaking but I think it was just too unfocused for my taste. For example, there were many interesting characters played by a really solid cast but, in fact, none of them was really properly developed, except maybe Mija, the main character. It was also rather tricky to mix so many different elements. On one hand, I did like how they displayed that most big corporations will claim that their products are healthy, organic, and other great things when it is in fact some complete PR bullshit (McDonald's is a great example for how they managed to change their image in a few years when, in fact, they are selling exactly the same products). Later on, I also enjoyed this moment when the other Mirando sister points out that people actually don't really care about what you sell them, as long as it is really cheap, which is also really true. So, they made some interesting points but, then, every 5 minutes, you would have Mija claiming that she didn't care at all about all this, that the only thing she wanted was to have her pet back. I mean, if the main character didn't care about all this, what should we? So, the movie kept going back and forth between all these interesting ideas but the end-result was never really convincing. Anyway, to conclude, even though it didn't completely work for me, it was still a decent watch and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in this director.