I love this movie so much

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

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.

Aliens arrive complete with giant robots - plural - to deliver the message that humans need to get their act together and prove their worth, or else higher galactic powers will pull the plug. Mankind's response is, of course, to break out the machine guns, so said higher powers turn off electricity to show they mean business.If this all seems strangely familiar to you, then that is probably because it is, of course, The Day The Earth Stood Still - the plot is the same as both the original and the remake. Even the title...Given the film industry's propensity to rip off ideas (viz. the familiar phenomenon of similarly themed films coming out at nearly the same time), the makers of The Day The Earth Stopped probably felt a bit hard done by to be sued by 20th Century Fox (per IMDb's trivia page) just because this, er, inexpensive film came out shortly before Fox's expensive TDTESS remake. However, this isn't a case of copying an idea. It isn't even a case of plagiarism - it's outright larceny.My mate C (for so my mate C. Thomas Howell likes to be known), as hack-for-hire, does as good a directing job as you can do with a budget of ninepence. He and the rest of the cast say their lines in the right order. There is a pretty lady with bare boobs. I do not recommend this film.Incidentally, note and marvel at the way that the military personnel often have no insignia of any kind on their uniforms.

This is another low budget rip off of a blockbuster remake from the Asylum film company. It's when you watch these films that you realise how they came up with the name 'Asylum'. Last night, it was my misfortune to watch this absolute bag of s**t. I watched it deliberately and, somehow, watched it all the way through. Where do I begin? I'm going to give you the entire film.Hundreds of massive robots land on earth and just stand around in the major cities of the world. A government taskforce, which is comprised of a bunch of w*******s, a 12 year old boy and C.Thomas Howell, sets up shop in a warehouse where there is a pointless bloke-needing-a-p*ss scene. Meanwhile a spacepod crashes in the woods. The pod contains an alien man and woman, both naked, who for some reason or another become separated. The taskforce shows up and captures the male after he has taken out half a dozen men using magic. Yeah, magic. The taskforce then assume that there must be another alien, what they base this assumption on is unclear. Anyway, still en route to the scene is Howell and his boyfriend. They find the female alien tarting down the road, give her a coat and take her with them. Once there, she then does the magic thing and is promptly shot and captured. The aliens are then taken to a low security warehouse for questioning but they ain't talking. Later on the woman learns to talk after reading Howells mind. She starts by repeating exactly what he is thinking. Apparently he thinks the bint looks like Angelina Jolie. Maybe he's blind or using a comparison of the way she likes to tart about with her tits out. She warns that earth poses a threat to other planets with its weaponry and that they are to be destroyed unless Howell can prove to her the meaning of humanity. He's got until the end of the day to do this otherwise the earth will be destroyed which we later learn will include the stopping of the earths core. Meanwhile, the military are having a go at these robots with missiles. Cue the worst scene of a fighter pilot supposedly in his cockpit. Missiles useless. planes destroyed. Then the woman uses her magic again and stops all things in the world that depend on electricity including cars leading me to question the purpose of the robots if she can do this. Anyway, with the power out Howell helps her to escape and takes her to his car. The car don't work though because she's knackered everything up. Howells commanding officer shows up to stop them escaping, aiming his gun at Howell. Tart magics the car into life and they drive off without any opposition from the c/o. As they drive around with Howell racking his brain as to how he can prove the meaning of humanity, they are carjacked. The carjacker says something along the lines of "there's aliens all over the world and you've got the only working car, blah blah blah". Reiterating that this car is the only car in the world that is working. After he's buggered off with the car and Howell and the tart are walking down the road, behind them another car drives past. Yes, another working car.it's possible, I suppose, that it's the same car and the bloke who nicked it just doesn't know where he's going. Later on, Howell see's his car that was just jacked and pulls out his gun and goes to get it back. It turns out that it's not his car but a similar looking and fully operational one driven by his boyfriend. They run and hide. Their pursuers catch up with them and Howell kills 2 of them and smacks his boyfriend with a truck door. A brilliant way to prove that humans are every bit as bad as the aliens think they are. During this scene another car drives past outside. Howell and the tart then get into the car and bugger off again. Down the road a bit, they come across a couple in the road who need to go to the hospital as the woman is in labour. En route to hospital, Howells boyfriend shows up again in another working car. They manage to escape to a warehouse where the baby is born. Howell uses the miracle of life to prove the meaning of humanity. The mother dies and the tart magics her back to life. slowly. job done. now to get her back to her spaceship. She gets shot and Howell has to carry her there. Then he gets shot and they both die on the ground at the feet of one of these robots. robot vapourises the bloke who shot Howell. Then the male aliens magically appears and brings Howell and the tart back to life. The male alien features at various points n the film but this is the only real purpose of him being in it at all. The aliens beam up into the robot and they all bugger off.

I think Asylum are finally getting getting the hang of the mockbuster genre . Not only do you need to rip off the title of a big budget cinema release but you also need to rip off the plot of the similarly titled film too . The film is called THE DAY THE EARTH STOPPED and that sounds suspiciously like THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL . Both films feature spaceships landing , giant robots and an alien who states if mankind doesn't start behaving itself then the giant robots will give mankind a fatal beating . Yes indeed at this rate David Michael Latt will find that the films he's producing will be widely advertised - after appearing in a Hollywood court charged with plagiarism . It can only be a matter of time before some bored lawyer flicks the channels on his remote only to discover the schedules for the Syfy channel and decide that there might be a good chance of a law suit TDTES starts with a hot naked chick exiting a spaceship . When I say that most of my interest for the film disappeared when the character found some clothes it indicates the only reason I watch films is to see naked hot chicks or that the film in question is very tedious , and no naked hot chicks is not what I watch films for . In fact not only does the character Sky , played by Sinead McCafferty , ruin the film by putting her clothes on but she ruins the film by opening her mouth . Actually all the characters contribute to the disintegration of any potential by opening their mouths . That's what most of the film consists of - people sat in a room talking . It's like a senior citizens tea party with the occasional shot of a giant robot thrown in or a car chase Of course this shouldn't necessarily be enough to condemn a film because the original THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL ( 1951 ) was very talkative but that has an average user rating of 8.0 on this site and spent a considerable number of years in the IMDb top 250 . Maybe that's because the original had memorable situations and intelligence in depth ? here we see mawkish situations and plot turns that don't even begin to make sense along with a very obvious lack of budget The world won't stop and I have a very bad feeling Asylum and David Michael Latt won't either . I just wonder when the company and its producer might end up in court though ? Not that I'd like to see this happen but they're sailing closer and closer to the wind