Steiner's Movie Review

Last night I went to a late showing of Day the Earth Stood Still. It was completely the opposite than what I was thinking it was going to be. This was another one of your "protect the environment" movies. Think of the movie The Happening combined with The Day After Tomorrow.
I will be honest... despite the political motivation behind The Day After Tomorrow, I actually really enjoyed that movie. The Day The Earth Stood Still story was about aliens that come to earth to save the planet. They are virtually "the earth's friend." Here these aliens have waited for centuries hoping that the human population would change and start to care about the environment, but the aliens ran out of patience. Their goal was to wipe out EVERYTHING that is man made and every human being. They say the earth is going to die if humans stay around but that the earth will survive if humans are gone.

One of the popular sayings in this movie by the alien, which was repeated by others in the movie was, "This is not your planet." This comment was in reaction to the Secretary of State's statement saying that this was our planet. The aliens unleash millions and millions of miniature flying bugs that eat through virtually everything! A football stadium vanished in the matter of seconds and the majority of Manhattan was destroyed without a trace. In The Happening, nature took out its revenge on the human race and let out a gas from plants that motivated humans to commit suicide, in Day The Earth Stood Still, aliens unleashed little bugs.

The people in the movie kept telling the alien, "We can change! Just give us a chance!" They were doing everything that they could think of to keep the aliens from protection the earth from humans. With the horrible graphics, the horrible acting by Keanu Reeves, and the horrible story, I would have to give this movie an F!