*SPOILER ALERT* This blog is about a movie I went to see tonight, “The day the earth stood still”. If you still wanna go see it, then dont read this blog. If you think your time is precious and you dont want to waste two hours of your life and 8,5€ then do continue reading.
So tonight I went to see the remake, with Keanu Reeves. I hadnt read anything about the movie before I went to see it, which was a mistake I will NEVER make again from now on.
The movie started out rather promising with suspense and some special effects. The subject of the movie became very clear very quickly : aliens invading the world to save it from mankind who’s destroying it. “Ah well”, I thought, ” its been a while since I’ve seen an action packed, visually stunning movie about aliens that also carries a message. This can be good”.
Boy, was i wrong.
Keanu Reeves acts like a lobotomized android, which is a good thing I guess since he’s playing an alien but it’s kinda getting on your nerves after a while (I mean, I did like Nemo in the Matrix but there’s a limit to the amount of movies I want to see this character in). Sadly enough, all the other actors “act” the same way (Kathy Bates gives an entirely new meaning to “Misery”). Instead of using this medium to get the message across (we’re ruining this planet and we should change before everything is extinguished, including ourselves), the entire movie is about zombie-like Keanu (I’m sure his statue at Madame Tussaud’s looks more alive) determined mankind cannot change and therefore must be destroyed, running from the US army (being its usual self and just shooting and launching bombs without having a clue what they are fighting against) together with Jennifer Connelly, who’s playing a bambi-eyed scientist (I have serious suspicions they copy pasted some of her scenes from “the Hulk” into this movie) trying to convince him otherwise. Now as if that isnt enough, next to trying to save mankind on her own, poor Jenny is also struggling to win the acceptance and love of her black stepson (how PC !) whose father had died a year before. Talk about a full plate !
But well, turns out the mushy stepmom-story actually does have a purpose, other than making me roll my eyes so much they were almost popping into the back of my head. Because its not the US army’s military “force” or Bambi Jenny’s pleading that makes the alien change his mind. Nooooo, its actually stepmom and stepson falling into eachothers arms, crying on top of the dead father’s military grave that makes the alien utter these words of wisdom : “At the abyss, they do change”.
After which he walks into the globe (the new age-version of the space-ship in the original movie), ends the destruction of the earth and takes off.
Which made me utter these words of wisdom : “OH GIMME A BREAK !!”
I can describe this movie with one word : “yawn”
