I do like (a lot to feast on the exterior of) Keanu Reeves, but boy, this was shite.
Keanu’s character, Klaatu, doesn’t say much, and I’m told that is a good thing for a KR role, although I also dig his low and rough voice. Still, I expected more PLOT for Klaatu. I found myself drawing constant parallels to other movies such as “Armageddon”, “Sphere” and the awfully bad “Deep Impact”.
The forced relationship with the kid took it all the way to friggin’ “Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom”. Taken, the kid nicely mirrors the single tracked mind of the US (destroy – destroy – destroy) and we forgive him, because he is a kid (unlike Kathy Bates, US Secretary of Defense). I still would have liked to see more of John Cleese and GORT.
Not even not having seen the original didn’t help.
OK, the CG was great, GORT was cool and all, but the predictability of both the story and the ending was sad, sad, sad.
I hear the ending of the original movie also made more sense. I wish I had spent my time watching that.