This South Korean sci-fi actioner is a huge, daft, noisy, fast-paced slice of fun. Set in 2092, a ragtag rough bunch of scrap-merchants-in-space discover a humanoid android child called Dorothy and delight in the potential reward money, until they discover it is a nuclear bomb in human form and they themselves became the target of the bad guys. All of this lies on top of a conspiracy thriller involving the environmental destruction of plant Earth and an unhinged corporate billionaire genius, meaning there is plenty of story to tell, yet the film also takes time to build the crew's individual characters well and uses their enforced interaction with the child to humorous and heartwarming effect at times. Space Sweepers is a slightly mad romp, the wildly ambitious effects often (but not always) hit the mark, and it is a wild but entertaining ride.
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