This movie may have received excellent reviews from movie critics and a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival, but it left me feeling disappointed and a little pissed. I am a Bong Joon Ho fan and I liked pretty much all of his movies that I've seen so far, except this one. The first half of the film is well-written and directed, it draws you in with its smart grifter-type plot about a family of charlatans. It establishes the characters quite well that you feel invested in them almost immediately.

The second half, however, is a different matter. It's like the filmmakers suddenly didn't know what to do next and resorted to doing something completely off the rails and just went crazy with it to push their social and political agendas. It felt like two different movies to me. I was expecting them to do something smart with it, but in the end, it just came out stupid. I'm sure a lot of people would disagree with me, but I just felt that they could have ended the movie in a much better fashion. Yes, it's a satire, I know, but just because it is, it doesn't mean you have to ignore logic and realism. In my opinion, this is a waste of a very promising plot.