This is a movie that I watched in the plane on my Hawaii trip. I heard about it often through Letterboxd, so I was curious if it was good. Let's just say I am a bit opinionated on the direction this movie took, at least in the modern lens it took. Apparently this is an english language remake of "Save the Green Planet!", a South Korean film which seems to follow the same plot beats.

(Spoiler warning because the ending is kinda an important frame of reference for my later discussion)

It follows conspiracy theorist Teddy Gatz to abduct the CEO of a pharmaceutical conglomerate, Michelle, after his mother was put into a coma as a result of a clinical trial with the company. He believes she is an Andromedan alien who is killing the planet's bees, indoctrinating his autistic cousin Don. After kidnapping the CEO, they keep her imprisoned in their basement, shaving her head and interrogating her over being an alien. They torture her and discover that she is the Andromedan Leader. After a dinner together they get into a fight when a cop shows up. Teddy goes to distract him while Don takes Michelle back into the basement. She attempts to convince Don out of keeping her captured and reporting Teddy to the cops. However, this backfires as Don decides to shoot himself. Teddy, hearing this, kills the cop and frantically runs back to the farmhouse. Michelle convinces him that the bottle of antifreeze in her car is actually a secret antidote for his mother. He dislocates Michelle's knee before rushing to the hospital and injecting the antifreeze into the IV bag, killing her. Michelle frees herself from the restraints with keys from Don, and discovers jars of human body parts of people Teddy believed were aliens. Michelle, when Todd returns, counters Todd's conspiratorial narrative with her own, claiming the Andromedans are attempting to save humanity and promises to bring him to the Andromedan spaceship. They rush back to her office which has a closet that is apparently the Andromedan transporter. When Teddy enters the chamber and it is activated, his explosive vest he brought explodes, killing him instantly. Michelle wakes up in the back of an ambulance, quickly rushing out of the moving ambulance running back to the office. Using the transporter, it is revealed she is, in fact, an Andromedan leader. They confer and believe the "human experiment" has failed, popping bubble dome over a flat earth. Several scenes follow, showing that every human on earth has been killed, while other animals and plantlife is spared.

The ending of the film is my biggest problem. They confirm that the conspiracy theory is, in fact, correct. This kinda defeats the point of pointing out the absurdity (and danger) of conspiracy theories. For the front 95% of the movie, I am under the assumption that the conspiracy theories are obviously false, and evaluating it with that lens. It really made me think about the nature of conspiracy theories; people believing them are capable of acknowledging a real problem in the world (e.g. declining bee population) but falsely attribute it to a conspiracy, aliens, a multinational dark government... Y'know. As a result, the wrong information and beliefs are spread and the genuine cause goes unaddressed or ignored.