Here is my review on the movie:
This past week we rented the original version just to see it before hand.
And Saturday we went to the 11:25 showing at Tinseltown. Totally worth the wait!
Keanu Reeves performance of Klaatu, the extraterrestrial entity who has come to Earth, was absolutely incredible. No showed emotion just simple truth of the impending fate that awaited Earth.
Jennifer Connelly as Helen Benson, one of the scientists did an excellent job. Her passion and emotion that she showed towards this visitor from another world was pure heart. She was the only one to befriend Klaatu despite knowing the truth and she still stayed with him.
Jaden Smith as Jacob Benson, Helen's step-son- this kid has such a bright future ahead of him. I kind of wanted to strangle him in one scene when he called the government on Klaatu's location but at the same time I couldn't blame him since he was acting like any other human would (terrified and afraid of the big bad "alien"). Jaden definately held his own among Connelly and Reeves.
"Gort" was cool. Especially at the end when he broke down into the alien disease and started destroying the human aspects of things. Gort might've destroyed a lot of the human stuff but he was just doing what he had to when feeling threatened.
Because this was an Extraterrestrial related movie there was no doubt I would love it. Definately had some moments that were true to the original 1950s version but at the same time it was easy to notice the differences such as the fact that in this version it was decided on that humanity would be wiped out whereas the original version left it for the ET's waiting on Earths' decision.
One quick thing, granted this was a remake: You would think that with all of the movies out there on UFOs and Aliens, that humans would learn their lesson by now: Our weapons do not work on alien civilizations! If extraterrestrials have a way of coming to our planet, it's pretty obvious that they would have better technology than the weapons we use for human to human warfare.
