King of Clones (2023)

King of Clones is a documentary about Hwang Woo-Suk a famous scientist who clones various animals and the scandalous downfall the notorious Korean befalls.

Directed by Aditya Thayi the film follows a very similar pace to other Netflix dramas and certain shots are intentional to get an emotional reaction out of the viewer as any artist would do. I don't think there is anything great here or anything that negatively stands out.

The film follows Hwang Woo-Suk in his misadventures. There is a lot of morality on the topic of stem cell research and the cloning of different species. I remember the first publicized cloning success way back when and was curious how far they've advanced since then.

The film certainly was interesting, but as far as a film it was just okay. Result: C+/

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