2003 · sci-fi · action · korean
Natural City
Directed by Byung-chun Min1h 54m2003
Two cops, R and Noma, hunt down renegade cyborgs. Cyborgs are used as commandos by the military, as lust objects and for companionship. Normaly they have a limited lifespan of three years but black market technology is being developed to be able to transfer a cyborg's artificial intelligence into human host. This drives R to find a suitable host for his expiring cyborg Ria.
Our read: Natural City (2003) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive sci-fi · action · korean entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
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