Cyborg She (2008)
Cyborg She (2008) 3/10
As much as i am a fan of Kwak Jae-Young’s brilliant My Sassy Girl, i have to say that Kawk’s recent works have been a disappointing downhill slope. Windstruck felt like a shadow of My Sassy Girl while his latest effort Cyborg She feels like a shadow of Windstruck (in other words, a shadow of a shadow). All there remains is the merest glimpse of the talents that Kawk used to have. And even though i was unimpressed by Park Chan Wook’s recent I’m A Cyborg But thats OK, Kawk manages to actually create a more pedantic and boring Cyborg movie. Maybe Jap directors should lay off the hot Cyborg girl genre. With uninteresting leads, tepid story telling and a plotline that opens up a gaping big time paradox the film is an instant trainwreck. It feels like a cheap My Sassy Girl Rip-off with its pairing of (once again) loveable male schmuck with masculine female. Only the Male shumuck of Cyborg She is bland and uninteresting while the female protagonist is wooden and forgettable. Overall, a failure.
