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Scott DerricksonPhotographie:
David TattersallMusique:
Tyler BatesActeurs·trices:
Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Kathy Bates, John Cleese, Jaden Smith, Robert Knepper, James Hong, Kyle Chandler, Brandon T. Jackson (plus)VOD (5)
Résumés(1)
L'arrivée sur Terre de Klaatu, un extraterrestre d'apparence humaine, provoque de spectaculaires bouleversements. Tandis que les gouvernements et les scientifiques tentent désepérément de percer son mystère, une femme, le docteur Helen Benson, parvient à nouer un contact avec lui et à comprendre le sens de sa mission. Klaatu est là pour sauver la Terre... avec ou sans les humains. Ce film est le remake du film homonyme réalisé par Robert Wise en 1951, qui apportait un avertissement contre la bombe nucléaire. Cette fois, le message est écologique. Le film fait le choix d'un traitement visuel spectaculaire, original et subtil. Vif succès au box office en France. (Orange Cinéma Séries)
(plus)Critiques (9)
A big film, but with very little content. The story tries to look as spectacular as possible, but in reality it’s surprisingly mediocre and bland throughout, best evidenced by the emotionally utterly cold finale. So the only thing really worth mentioning is Keanu Reeves as the alien and a couple of visually impressive scenes that at least kept me awake for 100 minutes. Otherwise, just slightly above average sci-fi nonsense that has absolutely no chance in today's competition.
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Cela ne surprend ni n'enthousiasme, et certainement ne satisfait pas. Ni sur le plan narratif ni sur le plan technique. Scott Derrickson alterne de beaux moments conceptuels-émotionnels avec des moments purement visuels, mais il y en a peu du premier type, et le deuxième est éculé et discret. Le reste est du remplissage, avec seulement Jennifer Connelly et Keanu Reeves qui le maintiennent à flot. Bien qu'ils n'aient pas beaucoup à jouer, on se sent immédiatement proche de Jennifer; et bien que Keanu se comporte de la même manière que dans tous ses films, on croirait même à un extraterrestre. Le petit Smith est effrayant, tout comme Dakota il y a quelques années. Derrickson est un réalisateur intimiste, il n'était pas le choix idéal (le personnage du général de l'armée, qui évoque plutôt un menuisier de machiniste redneck dans son garage, est peut-être une tentative ratée de prendre du recul). Bien que le film présente un agréable "charme de science-fiction", il est trop prudent, insignifiant et évite les comparaisons avec la Guerre des mondes de Spielberg, qui malgré quelques défauts, était une expérience plus excitante à tous égards.
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A worthy remake that does not put its predecessor to shame. The original was released in the 1950s, during the raging Cold War, and spoke with much more urgency, so the pleas that "We can change!" in the current version sound rather empty, but technically, it's clear that this spirited little sci-fi film has benefited from a modern coat of paint, especially in the character of the alien guardian Gort, who surpasses his predecessor in terms of impressiveness. The charismatic Keanu Reeves certainly didn't disappoint, but I'd love to shoot the whiny Smith to the Milky Way.
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After the almost hateful reviews that absolutely trashed the second half of the film, I expected almost anything except a pretty normal ending, which is actually considerably better than Independence Day, for instance. Last year’s genre relative I Am Legend also was much weaker. In short, The Day The Earth Stood Still is unlikely to become a new classic, but if I had to pick between it and any destruction orgy from Emmerich, I would choose Klaatua hands down. The director did his work with panache, delivering many scenes with a perfect atmosphere, and if I had to complain about something, it would be the script, or rather, the family storyline, but even that was bearable.
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A surprisingly respectful remake of the original that goes a little off the path promised by the trailers. With its surprisingly intimate atmosphere, it plays the family card, which in some moments unnecessarily pulls the otherwise very good spectacle into pathos. The film is carried by excellent actors, great special effects, and by the skilled craftsman Derrickson, who can evoke both moments of absolute tension and thrilling popcorn rides where a giant black cloud takes out trucks and football stadiums. I might have expected something a little different in terms of a Christmas blockbuster, but the result is certainly not a bad one. I give it a weaker four stars.
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This really was a failure. Visually weak, retarded ideas, it flashes here and there is a decent atmosphere, but otherwise the sky is gray and no rain falls from it. The frowning Reeves and his Golem bring a message from the stars, but they find themselves in the middle of a flood of clichés from traditional disaster films, including the stupid family crisis of a beautiful astrobiologist. The result is a confused ride from place to place and boring chatter about humanity to the sound of Bach and the machine gun cannonade of the US ARMY. And when there's nothing to show, we get an unraveling as if from a goofy hippie trip. This is not about simplicity of thought, but rather simplicity of presentation. Derrickson tripped up nicely with this, and his version of the sci-fi classic is neither a sexy spectacle nor a film with a solid idea. It is worth considering that in terms of balance and the presentation of a simple agitating idea, the new version cannot compete with the original whatsoever.
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A great old-school sci-fi (in very nice visual packaging) unfortunately with a typical ending about the hope than human kind can change. I haven’t seen the original, but in my eyes Derrickson did an excellent job maintaining the idea and the feeling of the original (I’ll certainly have a look at that to confirm my thoughts), which has a timeless theme. Moreover, Keanu Reeves exceeded my expectations massively because in truth I couldn’t imagine him in a role like this. For me the best scene of the movie was the ingenious beginning which was very reminiscent of The Thing in terms of atmosphere.
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An average sci-fi film with an idea and a message, but not everyone is necessarily going to be in the mood for it. Keanu Reeves impressed me the most in the film - he plays the alien in such a way that he really looks perfectly "out of it" most of the time - and I was also looking forward to John Cleese. Even though I knew his role wouldn't be the biggest... I wasn't expecting such a bark :-/ The good thing about this film is the quality visual effects, the bad thing is definitely the annoying stepson and after him the sometimes boring plot. Basically, three stars.
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This is what happens when a contemporary filmmaker takes on a remake of a 1951 film, especially one directed by Robert Wise, which is indeed a different league. Scott Derrickson has two excellent horror films to his name, but this one is a classic Hollywood pseudo-B-movie where there's too much melodrama and emotions that we have seen so many times that you end up ignoring them rather than being affected by them. In the 1950s, this was a hot topic, but in the new millennium, not so much anymore. Moreover, Spielberg had War of the Worlds, which at least had some action-oriented sense to it.
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