The Day the Earth Stood Still, 2008

Director: Scott Derrickson
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, John Cleese

sez says: this movie deserved all of the bad review it got.  It is really dumb.  The original 1951 version is worthy of being called a classic--for reasons I won't go into here. But this 'new ' version is a sorry mess.  Here come the 'men from outer space' to save the earth from the bad humans. The pseudo-human-space-man-agent and his minions do things like: raise people from the dead; bring on a storm of tiny metal locust; walks on water, sends ships to earth to remove two of every species so they can be saved  and transplanted back on earth when the bad humans are gone; ....does this sound familiar.  Arks, miracles, even a virgin birth--and YES this humanoid (JC) even gives his life to save the people (at least they didn't put him on a cross.)  What a bizarre distortion of Bible Stories and what a pathetic script "But we CAN change" pleads Connlley, over and over--till at last Keanu believes her becasue he can see she really and truly loves her step-son.  Call that drama if you want, but I don't. It's just waste material. GRADE D-