IMDb plot summary: Set in the year 2092 and follows the crew of a space junk collector ship called The Victory. When they discover a humanoid robot named Dorothy that's known to be a weapon of mass destruction, they get involved in a risky business deal.
Directed by Sung-hee Jo. Starring Song Joong-ki, Kim Tae-ri, Jin Seon-kyu, and Hae-Jin Yoo.
This movie isn't quite as clever as it wants to be when it comes to its narrative, but the world setup does feel incredibly prescient, as I watched this just a few days before the news was filled of billionaires buying their own spaceships and going to space, so that world feels only a decade or two a way. Aside from that, though, it's a fairly by-the-book story that thinks it's saying much bigger things about humanity than it actually is. A lot of the narrative beats fall right into the regular "tough guys meet a child who changes them" tropes, and most of that falls a little flat. Worth exploring the world, less worth exploring this particular narrative.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Space Sweepers > The Misfits
Space Sweepers < The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Space Sweepers > Fantasia 2000
Space Sweepers < The Artist
Space Sweepers < Men in Black III
Space Sweepers < The Long Day Closes
Space Sweepers < Nobody's Fool
Space Sweepers < Joker
Space Sweepers > Stalag 17
Space Sweepers > The Mauritanian
Space Sweepers < Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
Final spot: #1268 out of 3408, or 63%.
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