Critics reviews

Already limping along for a while, Korea's one-time bad boy of cinema Kim Ki-duk demonstrates total aesthetic exhaustion with Stop. Filmed in the still-radioactive forbidden zone around Fukushima, and shot with a Japanese crew and actors, the result is as unloved and unwanted as the pregnancy at the heart of his abortion drama.

With Stop, the highly prolific South Korean provocateur makes the most bizarre plea for environmental caution you're likely to ever see, bringing his characteristic grotesque horror and surreal humour to the story of a couple who fear the effects a nuclear meltdown at Japan's Fukishima plant may have had on their unborn child. As they clash over whether or not to abort it, a plot to black out energy-sucking Tokyo by shutting off all its electricity adds further mayhem to this mad mess.

With its erratic, illogical narrative arriving at no conclusion more complex than "nuclear power is really bad, you guys," the pic offers few compensatory pleasures in its dashed-off style and uncertain performances.