A young girl risks everything to prevent a powerful, multinational company from kidnapping her best friend - a fascinating beast named Okja. Despite the terrific cast of well known names and quite talented actors it has 'Okja' was a bit tame to say the least but also the cgi animal looked far from realistic which took me off the whole experience. The acting wasn't anything special either and believe me there's way better movies out there where a kid befriends an animal, an alien or a robot and have more heart as well than this movie has in it's running time. (3/10)

Okja is too much of a good thing. After a massive critical & financial hit w/Snowpiercer, Korean phenom Bong Joon Ho returns w/another cautionary tale for today's times. In a world where food may become a rare commodity, a super pig (more hippo than oinker) is introduced as a marketing ploy as a placating promise for the future masses. Fast forward a decade & we have Okja & Mija, poster child & pet as symbols of the experiment's success. What should be timely, feels forced. Comedy is fleeting & the archness of the message is lost in the bizarre casting & 'make it up as we go' plotting. A misfire of Okjan proportions.

This movie really opens your eyes to the reality. It holds such an important message and even though the animal is fictional, the story isn't. The animal and the kid are wonderful, Okja, the CGI character, is remarkably executed. However, the movie has such a predictable story line and there's one thing I don't acctually get. In the end, Nancy Mirando gives the girl her pig for money. How on earth a genetically mutated pig is worth less than that small gold statue? Given that THEY refused to sell them to anyone and only rented them out but in the end, she decides it's OK to just sell the animal. There's another thing, though: the "ALF" needed to make some high-tech device to sneak in using Okja but in the end, they walk right in. No guards and the door wasn't even locked and you're telling me that they have this much trouble getting into these buildings when a little girl managed to do it with little to no effort? It just doesn't make sense. Yet, Okja is still worth a watch; it is surprisingly funny, eye-opening and personally one of the best Netflix has to offer.

I finally had the chance to watch it the other day and it brought me to tears. The movie gives a great dipiction of how the meat industry is ran and it's heartbreaking. I love that this movie had Asian talent working on screen and behind the screen.