buddascrayon
The special effects, acting, and directing is on par with your average B movie. No surprises there. And there are a lot of scenes I might have done differently had I done this film. But that's half the fun of it, thinking about what I would do differently. The SFX weren't too bad either. Well, the robots were pretty good at least.And the story is far more faithful to the original 1950's movie than that Hollywood piece of drivel they pumped out with the A-list actors and the so-well-known title. I'd say it's worth watching. And none of that crap about the environment in it. They stuck to the "humanity is too dangerous to be allowed free reign in the universe" line of the original. With a few twists thrown in for some flavor. All in all a fun little film.
Paul Celano (chelano)
This movie amused me for how bad it was. It was like the writers watched "The Day The Earth Stood Still" and thought that they could do better. They almost kept part of the same story, but added so many weird things that make no sense. They had a random nude scene in the beginning of a girl who was a horrible actress throughout the film. The movie does have C. Thomas Howell in it and the whole time he had this look on his face that made him seem like he was in pain. Just like the movie it was copying off of, this film has a giant robot. It is CG and there is only about three shots of it throughout the movie. They keep showing these three shots in different scenes since they had a crappy budget. The ending had no excitement. It just kind of happened. You sit there and look at the TV and think, "well, I guess that is it". Actually I don't think I had any emotion throughout this film. Well I did laugh a few times at how horrible it was.
movieman_kev
Six hundred and sixty-six huge robots from outer space land in strategic locales all over Earth wanting humanity to prove it's worth in the grand order of things or face certain annihilation. The robots don't ever say this outright (other then a few reactive strikes, they don't really do much of anything truth be told), but two other alien visitors, a guy & girl, let the military (as well as the viewer) know what's going on.As far as movies from The Asylum go, this is among the cream of the crop. This isn't because the film is any good whatsoever, mind you, just that the other swill that the company usually makes is so mind-numbingly God awful that the bar for them has been so vastly lowered as to make this seem better than it is. C. Thomas Howell continues his descent into sub-mediocrity with his continued part in these awful films, while Judd Nelson should've really known better. Really the only saving grace is Sinead and after her nude scenes are done (she has two very early on in the film) there's really no other reason to keep watching the movie.However it's STILL better then that crap big blockbuster Keanu Reeves travestyEye Candy: Sinead McCafferty provides the T&A (there's also some man ass)My Grade: DWhere i saw it: Instant Netflix via X-box 369
otforme08
We thought we were getting "The Day the Earth Stood Still" out of the Redbox. My fault....need to read the fine print better. What a disappointment. The trailers to the other movies before it started had us thinking we had rented a porn. We should have known. After 40 excruciating minutes I am in typing this review. C Thomas Howell looks about 60 and I never could figure out where Judd Nelson was. Maybe too embarrassed to be obvious as to his character was. The "aliens" were never shown up close and looked something like a junior high science project or a Sesame Street character....I think he was SnuffleUppeGus. Our Redbox dollar would have been better spent on the homeless man that was panhandling us as we were renting this.
AD
