Rating of
1.5/4
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phantom - wrote on 12/17/08
did anybody hear Klatuu Barada Niktoe, at any point during this film?
It's the most iconic sentence of the original, and for some reason they couldn't squeeze it in.
Mostly the names are the same, everything else has changed. Prof. Barnhart (sp?) who in the original gets all the scientists together, here the Prof. is little more than a cameo by John Cleese. And this Prof rather than doing something that helps the plot, simply tell Jennifer Connelly to try to tell Klatuu/Keanu that humans are worth not killing. She was doing that already.
I think Keanu did a good job. It's not his fault the film makers couldn't decide on a plot.
The original is a classic, this one is not. It was directed by a master craftsman Robert Wise, who gave us some of the most iconic films of the 20th century, ie Sound of Music, West Side Story etc. This Derrickson guy is mo Robert Wise.
Do yourself a favor and rent the old one.
There were very cool parts, but they were very few and very far between. I would recommend watching this on netflix, or if you get to watch movies for free. Do not waste your money seeing it in the theater.
