The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

Watched this twice I believe. The message on this movie is great and makes you think a lot but the movie itself is quite poor. You kind of know what you'll get and Keanu plays it well. The bit where they speak chinese and then decide to speak english the 2 of them suddenly is just bad as they will continue to talk the same thing. The start of the movie is quite underdeveloped and the scene with the doctors is laughable as they expect treatment to work. I'd say 3 stars is a very fair rating.

Very busy director Scott Derrickson somehow found a space between projects to pay loving, respectful homage to Robert Wise's original TDTESS. The characters of Klaatu (Keanu Reeves) and his faithful automaton GORT have been successfully udated, bringing an almost unfeeling, cold logic to proceedings. The visual effects are startling, the actors are excellent and the logical scripting still retains a warm thread of humanity as Keanu Reeves' extraterrestrial visitor sees the best of humanity.

The original has nothing to worry about. However this version wasn't bad it did do well in highlighting the human propensity for violence. Most of the actors were cast well in their roles with the exception of Kathy Bates..terrible wooden performance..she genuinely looked like she was ready to start laughing at any minute.