Okja

I give up. Netflix is just never going to have or make or own a legitimately great movie. This was as close as they've come - Bong Joon-ho, Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal fucking going for it - and still it's a messy, fun but flawed, good-not-great mixed bag.

Okja is a super-pig. A giant hippo-dog of an animal, hanging out in South Korea with a young girl. But Okja's been genetically engineered for Big Agro, you see, and it's time to bring her back to America for a big old show and then of course some breeding and slaughtering. But the Animal Liberation Front is determined to make a mess of things for political gain. And Big Agro's run by Tilda Swinton, but her arc just sort of flattens out and disappears after one big scene. And then there's Jake Gyllenhaal, and seriously - what the fuck is he even doing? This thing's just so weird and uneven and messy. When it's fun it's fun - particularly in an early chase scene that just fucking owns - but I can't figure out why on earth it was made or what it's trying to say about anything.