Review: The Day The Earth Stood Still blu-ray

The original 1951 version of The Day The Earth Stood Still was a warning to humanity about the dangers of nuclear warfare.

In the 2008 revised version, the threat has been updated to mankind’s environmental abuse of Earth.

The story stars Keanu Reeves as Klaatu, an alien being who arrives on Earth with a robot bodyguard named GORT.

Klaatu is actually a representative from a group of alien races and has been given the task of judging whether humans deserve to continue living, and whether the damage done to Earth can be reversed.

As Klaatu descends his spaceship he is shot (but not fatally), and GORT responds by disrupting all electrical systems in the city of New York.

While Klaatu is recovering from his wound he escapes and, after a chance encounter, runs around New Jersey trying to evade authorities with a woman called Helen and her stepson, Jacob.

The end result is that Klaatu decides humans do deserve another chance, but because GORT has programmed the planet for destruction, the second chance will come at a big cost and change to the way humans live…

The original The Day The Earth Stood Still was a landmark film, and in many ways the remake fails to live up to its predecessor.

Although the new version has superior special effects, one might argue that the substantive feeling of the original is missing.

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