2024 · sci-fi · action · fantasy
Alienoid: Return to the Future
Directed by Choi Dong-hoon2h 2m2024
Ean has a critical mission to return to the future to save everyone. However, she becomes trapped in the distant past while trying to prevent the escape of alien prisoners who are locked up in the bodies of humans. Meanwhile, Muruk, who helps Ean escape various predicaments, is unnerved when he begins sensing the presence of a strange being in his body. Traveling through the centuries, they are trying to prevent the explosion of the haava.
Our read: Alienoid: Return to the Future (2024) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive sci-fi · action · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
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