It was always going to be hard to top Robert Wise’s sci-fi classic, and even with lead man Keanu Reaves and a multi-million budget it seems ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ is destined to be yet another sci-fi flop in what seems to be a dying genre.
The 2008 remake starts of promisingly, by unlike the original, creating an effective mix of both awe and fear in the build up to the initial encounter with alien Klaatu (Keanu Reeves). However the film fails to maintain the gripping introduction, and under developed themes, poor characterisation and an overall lack of depth stop the film from excelling to nothing more than routine entertainment.
Although overall being a poor showing, the hollow script of David Scarpa and the incompetent direction of Scott Derrickson bear the brunt of the blame. The film gives the audience no realistic characters to connect with and the ever wooden Reeves plays a sobering, robotic like Klaatu, given unimaginative, dull lines that seems an almost exact contrast to the complex, deep character created by Michael Rennie in the original. The movie seems slow, uneventful and lacks the relevance to modern society that made the original one of the best sci-fi films of all time.
The Only Reviews Rating: 4/10
A poor remake that fails to live up to its classic name.Buy the original here in our online store.
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