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This documentary chronicles the quick rise and precipitous crash-and-burn of Kozmo.com, the brainchild of investment bankers and former college roommates Joseph Park and Yong Kang. By interviewing the founders as well as the company's day-to-day workers, the film paints a comprehensive portrait of the failed venture, which started as an online convenience store with a single warehouse in 1997. Yet Kozmo.com is also juxtaposed with the larger economic event of the time -- the dot-com bust.

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Jonathan Foreman New York Post Even though it's common knowledge that Park and his founding partner, Yong Kang, lost Kozmo in the end, you can't help but get caught up in the thrill of the company's astonishing growth. Rated: 2.5/4 Jan 11, 2002 Full Review A.O. Scott New York Times Happily for Mr. Chin -- though unhappily for his subjects -- the invisible hand of the marketplace wrote a script that no human screenwriter could have hoped to match. Rated: 3.5/5 Jan 11, 2002 Full Review Ed Park Village Voice That the e-graveyard holds as many good ideas as bad is the cold comfort that Chin's film serves up with style and empathy. Jan 8, 2002 Full Review Film Threat Rated: 2.5/5 Dec 6, 2005 Full Review Film Threat Rated: 2.5/5 Dec 6, 2005 Full Review Film Threat Rated: 2.5/5 Dec 8, 2002 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Companies are dumb investing so much money on a young company with no history or profitability. Ending was a epic fail. But it does teaches you a few good lessons in business. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Decent documentary just really slow paced. Tells the story about a company that starts slow then gets huge. Great concept just doesn't seem like it needed to be so long. Kinda sad to see how bad they crashed and burned...oh well. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member So is it wrong that I spent most of the documentary eagerly waiting for the company to go under? Am I the only one who found Joe Park, the CEO, a bit on the insufferable side? Maybe I'm too harsh, or maybe I'm just jealous, but man, he likes to talk and he likes to brag and it's rather satisfying to see him fall from grace by the end of the movie. I know, I'm probably just a horrible human being. I mean, what do I know. I'm sure it could be argued that you need to be a dick in order to be successful in the corporate world. Anyway, interesting movie . . . a bit on the light side once things start to go wrong, especially comparing to how much coverage the rise of the company gets. There's a "Where are they now" feature that would've been a lot more compelling if it was videos instead of a slide show with a few sparse lines of text. Overall, it feels like it errs a little on the side of being too accommodating to its subjects. I would've liked to see Park and his group having to answer harsher questions. Then again, maybe they didn't need to . . . It's all in their faces. But I still would've liked more detail on the aftershocks of their dream's demise. Also . . . I can't stop wondering: how did the documentary get started anyway? Did they have some guy videotaping them almost from the get-go? Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member This film is a documentary, following kozmo.com, which was a delivery service company. Good storyline and shows the impact of the "Here today, gone tomorrow" dotcom bubble. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Interesting curio if you lived through it, as is Joe Park's naivete/chutzpah. But it's only barely interesting. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Great documentry about the good old days of the dot com boom and bust Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis This documentary chronicles the quick rise and precipitous crash-and-burn of Kozmo.com, the brainchild of investment bankers and former college roommates Joseph Park and Yong Kang. By interviewing the founders as well as the company's day-to-day workers, the film paints a comprehensive portrait of the failed venture, which started as an online convenience store with a single warehouse in 1997. Yet Kozmo.com is also juxtaposed with the larger economic event of the time -- the dot-com bust.
Director
Wonsuk Chin
Producer
Wonsuk Chin
Distributor
Elliptic Entertainment [us]
Production Co
Cinema Forever
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 11, 2002, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 5, 2016
Runtime
1h 34m
Sound Mix
Mono