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Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

THE DAY THE EARTH STOPPED is the Asylum version of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, the needless Keanu Reeves remake of the 1950s science fiction classic about aliens visiting Earth and discovering that it comes up short. I thought the Reeves version was pretty pathetic in itself, and this cheap rip-off is even worse.It's probably the most heavy-handed film that I've seen in a while, containing nausea-inducing scenes in which the alien characters discover the value of human life by witnessing love and family relationships here on Earth. Plus we get a ton of religious inference, no surprise when a production company called 'Faith Films' is listed as one of the film's backers.Pity poor old C. Thomas Howell, who not only acts - badly - as the film's wooden protagonist, but directs to boot. He does a bad job in both roles. Mainly this is about Howell travelling around with a female alien (who is supposed to look like Angelina Jolie, which is a real stretch by anyone's imagination) while a CGI robot stands guard over the city. It's lamentably bad, and if you don't laugh then you'll be crying.

there is really no reason to trash this film. Plot wise, its pretty solid with a nice tale. The effects are about what one would expect of a rather low budget film but they are OK. The cast is pretty solid, tho not Oscar worthy. The story revolves around a mysterious alien invasion that no one can figure out. There are religion undertones, and not so subtle ones at that. The aliens turn out to be powerful, God like entities that have come to determine the worth of the human race. Plan B it to knock the planet off its axis and destroy us. C Thomas Howell is fun to watch and he is a promising director. The movie moves along at a decent pace and never hits any truly boring stretches. I felt reasonably entertained and no, its far from the worse movie ever made like some sniffy Star Wars nerds commented here.

Here goes. This movie was so bad, it wasn't even so bad that it was good like some movies I know... this one was just long, boring and rotten. Stay away, far away from this one!This movie was so bad, it wasn't even so bad that it was good like some movies I know... this one was just long, boring and rotten. Stay away, far away from this one!This movie was so bad, it wasn't even so bad that it was good like some movies I know... this one was just long, boring and rotten. Stay away, far away from this one!

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.