The Day the Earth Stood Still

This contemporary remake of the science-fiction classic knew what it was doing when it cast Keanu Reeves, the movies' greatest stone face since Buster Keaton.

I can't explain the film's main problem without giving plot points away; suffice to say that, after decades of watching Earth, Klaatu's team of observers has missed a crucial event you and I witness every day. I can tell you about the secondary problem, though: too much money.

Pretty good as science fiction thrillers go, but sadly, there isn't much more to say about it.

Something has been lost in the translation, and it's not just the script.

The problem here is that there are no big ideas.

Dunno about the Earth, but time certainly stands still for a goodly portion of Scott Derrickson's expensively produced but utterly boneheaded remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still.

What's never explained is why anyone would do such a dumb remake of Robert Wise's 1951 sci-fi classic.

I've rated this film a 10, not because it deserves a 10, but becaue the average of 4.5 is ridiculous. It was always going to struggle. A remake of a well loved movie that doesn't lend itself to the dumb immediate payback of modern action movies - it was screwed from the start. Critised for not being the original movie and for not being modern and full of action, or an exact duplicate, it never stood a chance. Actually there are a lot of subtleties to the movie, and the new twist on the old twist is brilliantly delivered; for most of the movie I thought they'd forgotten the movie's name, and yet it turns out to be more poignant than in the original. Well worth watching if you have half a brain, but I suggest watching the orignal first. The makers of this film did, and it shows.

Only Keanu Reeves was good, the kid was stupid, spoiled and annoying, the head of the operation was just annoying and incompetent, she decided what others should have decided and vice versa, the rest of the roles were just pale the picture and the plot are generally good

This is just a quick rewrite because for some unknown reason, I couldn’t post, but to summarise what I said, this movie has an interesting concept that goes down in quality over time, bit and pieces don’t add up, the ending is very sudden and it wastes a quarter of the movie on character development. Over all, good idea, poor execution, 6/10.

This is a very naive movie. I was especially amused by the look ****. A film, like, not exactly for children. I do not want to enumerate all the stupidities of the plot, because they are not too few there. Nevertheless, the film can be watched if one is not too demanding on logic and common sense, because in the film there are not bad spectacular scenes

Booooring. Just a collection of stares and very poor dialogue. I think the main actors were overacting, but they were probably trying their best with the awful script. Special effects were not bad for 2008.