The Day the Earth Stood Still

At being annoying. He gives a master class in this film on the art of annoying. At first I thought it was just the adult Jaden Smith that was so annoying. No. The child Jaden Smith is annoying too.

It's not a bad movie. Keanu Reeves is great, Jennifer Connelly is great as usual, the real problem with the movie is Jaden Smith, he is just a toxic blob, perhaps one of the worst actors in the history of Hollywood.

Nobody should ever hire him, nobody should ever allow him within a hundred miles of a film set, every word he utters, every scene he's in is toxic and unwatchable just like After Earth. Every project he is involved in is diminished by his presence and extreme lack of charisma. An iguana has more screen presence than he does.

The same with virtually everything else he's done the kid has an unbelievable lack of talent. Considering his father and how talented he is one has to wonder how how does a son of a talent like Will Smith fall so far from the tree.

Avoid Jaden at all costs, avoid anything he's in, anything he does, he's is utterly unwatchable.

If you are able to get past the Jaden roadblock, the film is fun.

Let's be blunt: this is definitely not a good movie; it's not horrid either, it's just somewhere between average and bad. There are quite a few problems. First, with the script, which tries to incorporate all elements of the 1951 movie into a new, updated whole. The end result lacks cohesion and plays more like a sequence of 5 to 10 minutes scenes badly sewn together, the prime objective of each scene being either to introduce an element taken from the original movie or, on the contrary, an idea absent form the1951 original, instead of simply advancing the story. Second, the direction: poor, poor, poor. Third, some of the worst acting I have seen in a mainstream movie for a long time; I found the leads, especially Keanu, quite good but the other actors are decent at best, with Katie Bates delivering a frighteningly catastrophic 'performance'. I was not shocked (positively or negatively) by all the other aspects of the film.

Coming out of the theater, I found myself pondering about this remake and the 1951 original. I find the Robert Wise movie quite good, but not the masterpiece some claim it to be. I was therefore ready to accept a remake and the few new ideas offered by the 2008 movie made me painfully aware that a remake could indeed have been interesting, had it been put in better hands or, if I dare say so, in much better hands. So, to me, it's another sadly missed opportunity.

Jaden Smith is the worst part of this entire film! He alone makes it almost unwatchable!

Good movie except for every scene with Jaden Smith