Ultimately, the story of The Day the Earth Stood Still is as naive as the one from 1951, something that should have been adapted a little more to the times. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/10 | Feb 18, 2025

The computer animation and picture quality is significantly cleaner and more impressive than the low-budget, man-in-a-foam-suit costuming of the 1951 classic.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 28, 2020

If you look past the fairly cool special effects you're going to see a film at war with itself.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

Doesn't have a single practical reason for its existence.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 6, 2019

The Day the Earth Stood Still is a great study in all the things that can go wrong with a movie. The plot's all haywire and the casting's rotten and the dialogue's stupid and the camerawork's ugly and the CGI sucks.

| Oct 31, 2018

Poor Keanu Reeves. Imagine taking the role of an emotionless extra terrestrial, and having people applaud such ingenious casting.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 21, 2014

The Day The Earth Stood Still is a missed opportunity for sure - you'll leave the cinema not enlightened or entertained, but wondering just how mankind's last stand could wind up being so fatally underwhelming.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 14, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

The world doesn't actually stand still. The corners of Keanu Reeves' mouth, his eyebrows and most of his other facial features, however, remain motionless for almost two hours.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 28, 2011

| Original Score: C- | May 6, 2011

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 3, 2011

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jan 14, 2010

As a flashy big-budget distraction, Stood Still is adequate overall -- rarely above, occasionally below -- and often familiar in its spectacle.

| Dec 17, 2009

Robert Wise's original is well served by 20th Century Fox's popcorny but respectful update, a sturdy, entertaining sci-fi actioner.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 9, 2009

Now we know what happens when the Earth slows below 55 mph and stands still.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 18, 2009

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 8, 2009

An entirely unnecessary and unremarkable remake.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 30, 2009

Those next to me in the cinema staring blankly at the screen gave a remarkably similar performance to that of Reeves without even being aware of it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 1, 2009

About 20 minutes in The Day the Earth Stood Still -- well, the movie stood still and never moved.

| Original Score: D+ | Jun 10, 2009

It's just like us to be arrogant enough to believe, like Marvell's coy mistress, that our cherry is the ripest for busting of the lot.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Jun 9, 2009