The Day The Earth Stood Still

—Review Score: 5/10—

The Day The Earth Stood Still is a remake of an old movie with the same title. The trailer of this movie shown a lot of promise, showcasing only the no-so-many action scenes. The actual movie, however, isn’t all that flashy. The movie only shone on the visual effect department, but lacks on the story and the pacing. And the title isn’t about earth’s fighting, but more like a disappointment near the end of the movie. The earth stood still with all the technology disabled.

The main deal of the movie is about alien encounter. The whole movie theme actually fit well with the earth’s condition right now, but it’s somewhat out of place in relation to the alien invasion. The ecological theme is complemented with the very slow story pacing and a lot of plain dialogue all over the movie, making this whole movie experience a non-entertaining one. The movie opt to use dialogues in place of action sequences to convey the story. It would be good if the dialogues are well-written and well-acted, but in this movie they just lack those criteria.

Visual and sound effects are the saving grace of this movie. They just seem right on the limited action sequences that utilize them. From the alien spacecraft (the spheres) to the giant robot and the military action sequences, the effects are top-notch. The spheres are majestic and eerie, the giant robot (Gort) is still sleek and the trademark laser beam is still there, not to mention when Gort turned into millions of nanobots, consuming all metal in the vicinity. In all of its glory, the visual and sound effects deserve a praise.

All in all, The Day The Earth Stood Still is not a worthy movie to watch. It really suffers from bad storytelling. The only good thing are the visual and sound effects.

(Picture Credit: The Day The Earth Stood Still Official Site)