The Day the Earth Stood Still

Name: The Day the Earth Stood Still
Released: 2008-12-12
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, Jon Hamm, Kathy Bates

PG-13
1h 44m
2008

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Keanu Reeves stars in this contemporary reinvention of the sci-fi classic that tells the story of an alien who travels across the universe to warn of an impending crisis on Earth.

Director:

Scott Derrickson

Producer:

Erwin Stoff, Gregory Goodman, Paul Harris Boardman

Writer:

David Scarpa

Cast:

Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, Jon Hamm, Kathy Bates

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

20%

Critics Consensus: Heavy on special effects, but without a coherent story at its base, The Day the Earth Stood Still is subpar re-imagining of the 1951 science-fiction classic.

Reviews

Gone With The Twins

Mike Massie

The computer animation and picture quality is significantly cleaner and more impressive than the low-budget, man-in-a-foam-suit costuming of the 1951 classic.

November 28, 2020

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TheIndependentCritic.com

Richard Propes

If you look past the fairly cool special effects you're going to see a film at war with itself.

September 5, 2020

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The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)

Mattie Lucas

Doesn't have a single practical reason for its existence.

The Day the Earth Stood Still is a great study in all the things that can go wrong with a movie. The plot's all haywire and the casting's rotten and the dialogue's stupid and the camerawork's ugly and the CGI sucks.

Poor Keanu Reeves. Imagine taking the role of an emotionless extra terrestrial, and having people applaud such ingenious casting.

August 15, 2017

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