The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

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Won 2 awards & 9 nominations
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About the movie

Year

2008

Runtime

1 h 44 min

Genres

Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Countries

United States, Canada

Director

Scott Derrickson

Writers

David Scarpa, Edmund H. North

Plotline

A remake of the 1951 classic sci-fi film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth.

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Starring

Keanu Reeves

Jennifer Connelly

Kathy Bates

Jaden Smith

John Cleese

Main cast

Keanu Reeves Klaatu

Jennifer Connelly Dr. Helen Benson

Kathy Bates Regina Jackson

Jaden Smith Bobby Benson

John Cleese Prof. Jacob Barnhardt

Jon Hamm Michael Granier

Kyle Chandler John Driscoll

Robert Knepper Colonel

James Hong Mr. Wu

John Rothman Dr. Myron

Sunita Prasad Rouhani

Juan Riedinger William Kwan

Sam Gilroy Tom

Tanya Champoux Isabel

Rukiya Bernard Student

Alisen Down Laptop Woman

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External critics' reviews

This contemporary remake of the science-fiction classic knew what it was doing when it cast Keanu Reeves, the movies' greatest stone face since Buster Keaton. more

The one unforgivable crime committed in this remake is the lack of the original's most famous line of dialogue: "Klaatu barada nikto." Would it have been so tough to squeeze that in somewhere? more

Surprise! The remake is not a heresy. It's a decent enough stab at being what the old movie was to its time, following the same basic plot, full of respectful references to its model, updated with a gallery of fairly imaginative special effects. more

Just because the new The Day the Earth Stood Still is green, though, doesn't mean it's dull. If anything, there's a lot more mayhem and destruction this time around. more

An entertaining rethink of the 1951 classic. more

Passed my popcorn-movie test. Using the vast, expensive technology of a big studio production, it roused enough cheap energy to drive me to eat a bag of popcorn fit for a circus animal and wash it down with a quart of Diet Coke. more

I can't explain the film's main problem without giving plot points away; suffice to say that, after decades of watching Earth, Klaatu's team of observers has missed a crucial event you and I witness every day. I can tell you about the secondary problem, though: too much money. more

A remake that does not disgrace the original, this is sufficiently different to stand alone and just as relevant in its concerns Â as well as succeeding (arguably better) as a thriller. And after this performance, are we sure that Keanu Reeves is really human? more

Like the big shiny sphere at its center, the film is fairly pretty, but there's no real sense that there's anything inside it. more

For most of the way this ecofriendly fantasy is pleasantly clunky, and Reeves, whose expressive range here is slim to none, is perfectly cast as the alien. more

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