Dec 26, 2008

There is no spoon?

I should have listened to the critics. There's not one single review that suggests "The Day the Earth Stood Still" is even a mediocre flick. Good. It's not. This is one of these movies that is inherently frustrating only because of what could have been. I, for one, actually consider myself a Keanu fan. Screw it, so he's not Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Who cares? He's a total himbo and he's fucking Neo. That said, not even his vacant gravitas could save this overwhelmingly under-thought clunker. Don't waste your money, because there's not one single redeeming scene in the whole mess. Its best quality is that it keeps to 90 minutes or less. You're better served just renting the Matrix if you want a good Keanu vehicle. Or better yet, if you had any class you'd just check out his criminally underrated turn in "Constantine." Still, no matter how crap the material, the man just can't look bad in a well-cut suit.

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