Nothing special. Decent, but could have cast more actors that didn't look like they were acting. Kang-ho Song (Ki Taek) and Hye-Jin Gang (Chung-Sook) were great. Not one scene of theirs looked forced. Can't say that about anyone else as they all had moments where they looked like they were "acting".

I understand the metaphorical meaning and depth of the film which made it decent. I can handle "can't-place-it-in-just-one-genre" idea. However, there just is not enough there to make it Best Picture of the year. The powers that be were reaching to award something just to make their own point I think. It's not even in the same category as Joker and I typically don't like films that are gloomy and 70's-ish looking, but Joker was much better and was even similar to Parasite in some of it's lessons on humanity. I'm not saying Joker should be Best Picture either because I didn't see hundreds of movies last year to make that call, but it was the best I saw in 2019. If you can either understand the spoken language of Parasite or don't mind reading subtitles, then it's worth seeing--partially for the meaning, partially to say you saw it, partially so you can see for yourself that an ok movie can win Best Picture. Tune out the idea that you'll watch a comedy or a drama or a thriller or a horror movie--its a blending of a lot of things.