Concrete (2024) Movie Review

1. Concrete Utopia - Rotten Tomatoes

  • Fantastic film, provocative story telling. Park Seo Joon gives a performance that is on another level, so moving and nuanced. Even the song during the credits ...

  • The world has been reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake. While no one knows for sure how far the ruins stretch, or what the cause of the earthquake may be, in the heart of Seoul there is only one apartment building left standing. It is called Hwang Gung Apartments. As time passes, outsiders start coming in to Hwang Gung Apartments trying to escape the extreme cold. Before long, the apartment residents are unable to cope with the increasing numbers. Feeling a threat to their very survival, the residents enact a special measure.

2. Concrete Utopia review – tense dystopian Korean thriller is bitter ...

  • Apr 5, 2024 · Set in the last residential tower block remaining in Seoul, this South Korean genre film puts the city's haves and have-nots into deadly competition.

  • Set in the last residential tower block remaining in Seoul, this South Korean genre film puts the city’s haves and have-nots into deadly competition

3. Review: Concrete Utopia | philipbrasor.com

  • Jan 4, 2024 · Concrete Utopia is a well-made film, but it rarely transcends its urge to appall the viewer with atrocious behavior.

  • Um Tae-hwa’s disaster movie was South Korea’s official submission for this year’s International Oscar. It didn’t make the shortlist, and it’s easy to see why. Concrete…

4. Review: 'Concrete Utopia' Explores Authoritarianism After a Disaster

  • Aug 9, 2024 · Concrete Utopia is not just a story of survival in an apocalyptic world. It is a cautionary tale about the dangers of unchecked power under any circumstances.

  • 'Concrete Utopia' is a cautionary tale about the dangers of unchecked power under any circumstances.

5. 'Concrete Utopia' Review: Even the Apocalypse Can't Stop a ... - IndieWire

6. Concrete Utopia movie review & film summary (2023) | Roger Ebert

  • Dec 8, 2023 · Overall, “Concrete Utopia” is more ambitious than its execution, but nonetheless sustains its suspense with an emotional journey into the depths ...

  • Concrete Utopia is more ambitious than its execution, but nonetheless sustains its suspense with an emotional journey into the depths of what scarcity can do to humanity.

7. Concrete Utopia (2023) Out now on VOD - REVIEW! - The Geek Show

  • Apr 2, 2024 · Concrete Utopia is an eventful film. It's a bleak and brutal watch at times, but a powerful and rewarding one with some fantastic performances.

  • Concrete Utopia adds a uniquely korean flavour to the dystopian thriller sub-genre starring New Wave Legend, Lee Byung-Hun.

8. Concrete Utopia - Movie Reviews - Rotten Tomatoes

  • With brilliant performances and a balanced, harrowing story to propel it, Concrete Utopia isn't just one of the best films of the year: it may be the best ...

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9. 'Concrete Utopia' Review: It's 'Earthquake' Meets 'Lord of the Flies'

  • Nov 11, 2023 · It's a fractious, blood-soaked drama about the will to survive that feels like “Earthquake” crossed with “Lord of the Flies.”

  • Um Tae-hwa's dystopian drama is set in a Seoul apartment complex after an apocalyptic earthquake. But should the residents keep the outsiders outside?

10. Concrete Utopia – 5 Star Review - Eastern Film Fans

  • I think the visual effects are seamless as the survivors venture more and more into the rubble of the Seoul to hunt for water and food. I thoroughly recommend ...

  • Min-Sung (Park Seo-Joo) and his wife Myung-Hwa (Park Bo-young) awake one morning, to find that Seoul has been destroyed by a massive earthquake, but for some reason their apartment  block still stands in amongst the destruction.  Pretty soon survivors from the outside seeking shelter, food and water descend upon the last block standing. Only thing is do the residents have enough to look after themselves plus these outsiders?  Now the residents have to make the choice, they will have to rebuild their beloved Hwang Gung Apartments, and adapt to their new way of life. This means setting up rules that they must follow, with the help of their newly appointed Delegate Yeong-Tak (Lee Byung-Hun) the residents set about their new lives, but is their room for non-residents in their Apartments, in their new way of life, in their Utopia?

11. Review of Concrete Utopia - MIDLANDS MOVIES

  • Mar 30, 2024 · There are some genuinely funny moments as the residents interact, and the moment when the earthquake hits (shown from multiple perspectives at ...

  • This big budget extravaganza from South Korea was a box office smash in its domestic market, and was quickly picked up for a sequel – Badland Hunters – by Netflix. Directed by Tae-hwa Eom, who also co-wrote the film with Lee Shin-ji and Kim Soong-nyung, it follows the survivors of a devastating earthquake in Seoul

12. 'Concrete Utopia' TIFF Review: Holds More Substance (But Not Nuance ...

  • Sep 21, 2023 · It's a survival film first and foremost, but what makes Concrete Utopia stand out from your typical Hollywood disaster film is that the ...

  • This South Korean disaster flick focuses less on the awe of the destruction than it does the human instinct.

13. Concrete Utopia review: a moralising disaster movie | Sight and Sound - BFI

  • Sep 22, 2023 · Concrete Utopia feels like a blockbuster-level thought experiment about social organisation in an apocalypse: provocative, full of moral ...

  • Director Um Tae-hwa explores human behaviour in the wake of an earthquake that decimates Seoul with a Ballardian story set in a post-apocalyptic apartment complex.

14. 'Concrete Utopia' Review - A Gripping Examination of Human Nature Amid ...

  • Sep 10, 2023 · Concrete Utopia is a layered story that operates outside the confines of the typical disaster-movie drama. It provides a compelling backdrop for ...

  • When resources become commodities in a life-or-death situation. Discover the grim reality of Concrete Utopia with our review.

15. 'Concrete Utopia' Review: Um Tae-hwa's Dystopian Thriller ...

  • Sep 10, 2023 · Even with a long, dragged-out middle section, the film has enough fun with its situation in the beginning and knows when it's time to stop ...

  • Sometimes you read the premise of a film and can tell immediately where it’s going to go and what kind of thematic ideas it has on its mind. With a premise that sounds like Snowpiercer but in an ap…

16. Concrete Utopia Reviews - Metacritic

  • Far from the brilliance of something like 'Parasite,' the film is too obvious in its intentions, not to mention the long duration works against it. Two more ...

  • The world has been reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake. While no one knows for sure how far the ruins stretch, or what the cause of the earthquake may be, in the heart of Seoul there is only one apartment building left standing. It is called Hwang Gung Apartments. As time passes, outsiders start coming in to Hwang Gung Apartments trying to escape the extreme cold. Before long, the apartment residents are unable to cope with the increasing numbers. Feeling a threat to their very survival, the residents enact a special measure.

17. Film Review: "Concrete Utopia" -- No Room at the Top - The Arts Fuse

  • Dec 13, 2023 · Concrete Utopia echoes Parasite's sharp critique of class exploitation, but it applies a faster pace and more restless energy to its vision of economic ...

  • "Concrete Utopia" echoes "Parasite"’s sharp critique of class exploitation, but it applies a faster pace and more restless energy to its vision of economic meltdown.

18. Concrete Utopia (2023) Movie Review from Eye for Film

  • Dec 3, 2023 · Many people will be attracted to this film because of the spectacle it presents. The landscape of ruined buildings is magnificently constructed ...

  • “I want to keep moving to bigger units and keep up this apartment lifestyle,” a woman says in the black and white ‘documentary’ which opens South Korea’s submission to the 2024 Oscars. Viewers may think of its 2020 winner, Parasite, and indeed, there are themes in common between the two, but Um Tae-hwa’s work has one marked difference: shortly after the main narrative begins, almost everybody in the world is killed.

19. 'Concrete Utopia' Review — 'Squid Game: The Challenge' Wishes It ...

  • Dec 7, 2023 · The film delves into themes of interpersonal and socioeconomic struggles amidst the spectacle of the end of the world, creating a layered and ...

  • This peach of a South Korean disaster-thriller may hit some familiar notes, but it does so with an effective clarity that strikes home.

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