The Day Keanu Stood Still

I’ve lost track of how many remakes I’ve seen this year, but now we’re up to An Inconvenient Truth (although possibly with less computer imagery than that movie). Have to say, if you want someone who doesn’t react as a human would in any way what-so-ever, yep Keanu Reeves is an excellent choice.

I haven’t seen the original Day, but suspect this is as heavy handed as that was. Certainly we are in no doubt that the humans have brought the earth to ruin and only by destroying humanity can the earth be saved. ...and that’s about the extent of it really. Not huge depth here, and the military forces aren’t exactly exemplars of caring and supportiveness. Just as well there’s one righteous man in Sodom… I mean, one good woman in New York. (Not that there’s a lot of religious imagery here, unlike the first one.)

Anyway, yes, ‘Woah’ boy is in it, as well as that woman who was the girlfriend interest in the Hulk, and of course Gary Hobson from Early Edition. (Yes, frankly, none of them are worth naming. Performances are all right, but no-one really cares about them.) Nice cameo from John Cleese but that man can’t do anything wrong, and James Hong, of course, who seems to be in every movie nowadays (which isn’t a bad thing).

Not a terrible movie, but one that doesn’t bother with ‘subtly’. [And yes, they say that line...]

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