Skunkyrate
Gripping story with well-crafted characters
Tacticalin
An absolute waste of money
Lollivan
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Adeel Hail
Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
rahulrathaur-56760
The movie is great. But i think the Secretary of Defence should have died. She is the one who wanted destruction.
mygerlparts
Keanu was a good choice for this, but he forced the role. If you're gonna play Klaatu, you need to be calm, cool, collected and not anxious. Reeves came off as a bit too emotional, too....human. Still, it's better than that monstrosity Cruise made of 'War of the Worlds'.
roycevenuter
Just as the reboot of "Cape Fear" reconfigured the entire film adaptation of John D. Macdonald's seminal novel, so does this one, starring Jennifer Connelly and Keanu Reeves creatively flesh-out the set pieces depicted in the classic 1951 rendition with Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal.It isn't merely a matter of enhanced computer generated special effects: Keanu Reeves delicately walks a thespian tightrope between terrifying godlike powers and an overriding mission dedicated to persuading an earth on a collision course with its own self perpetuating doom---to help itself before it is too late.As a matter of taste, any work of art may be alternately extolled or parodied; "The Day the Earth Stood Still" is no exception. However, as a devotee of world peace and a believer in the ability of united enlightened irenic and compassionate human beings, I was heartened by this cinematic presentation. I think that Michael Rennie and those who produced the 1951 version might also be cheered---especially in light of the Hitleresque antics of Vladimir Putin, Assad and Kim Il and others in our times. No well intentioned effort to eradicate rampant, destructive, vengeful, revanchist maniacal demagogues- is a waste of time. I believe that this 2008 envisioning of the earlier movie reaches a much wider audience, which may keep the salient themes simmering.
Teh Pwn
I am surprised the current rating is not a couple of points lower.This boring remake has some horrible actors, starting most notably with "mr serious face" Keanu Reeves who literally uses the same boring face and the same lack of emotion as always - in EVERY SINGLE MOVIE where he has a part, Will Smith's little talentless son who is there just because his daddy pulled some strings, some other familiar faces and not so much... none of whom really act the way they should be. Some characters are overdone, some just stereotypically boring (the hard- a** military, the ruthless and senseless top brass etc). The plot is basically a reboot of a classic, this time with very bad early 00's CGI, and adds very little to the original movie. The action scenes are extremely cheezy, often times outright stupid...I don't know what else to say. It's just blant and boring.
