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Restart the Earth

Original title: Chong qi di qiu
  • 2021
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 29m
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4.2/10
787
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Restart the Earth (2021)
In order to combat desertification, humans have developed drugs that promote the accelerated reproduction of plant cells, but they have accidentally liberated the stress system of plants and awakened plant emotions.
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In order to combat desertification, humans have developed drugs that promote the accelerated reproduction of plant cells, but they have accidentally liberated the stress system of plants and... Read allIn order to combat desertification, humans have developed drugs that promote the accelerated reproduction of plant cells, but they have accidentally liberated the stress system of plants and awakened plant emotions.In order to combat desertification, humans have developed drugs that promote the accelerated reproduction of plant cells, but they have accidentally liberated the stress system of plants and awakened plant emotions.

  • Director
    • Zhenzhao Lin
  • Writers
    • Zhenzhao Lin
    • Shengfan Zhang
  • Stars
    • Mickey He
    • Mingcan Zhang
    • Mi Luo
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.2/10
    787
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    • Director
      • Zhenzhao Lin
    • Writers
      • Zhenzhao Lin
      • Shengfan Zhang
    • Stars
      • Mickey He
      • Mingcan Zhang
      • Mi Luo
    • 15User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Mickey He
    Mickey He
    • Yang Hao
    Mingcan Zhang
    • Yuan Yuan
    Mi Luo
    • Li Mo
    Li Ning
    • Fang Yong
    Tang Xin
    • Er Shiyi
    Naomen Eerdeni
    • Lao Gui
    Ruoxi Li
    • Xu Jing
    Huang Kai-Lun
    • Shi Tou
    Xinyu Ye
    • Lao Lei
    Rongguang Yu
    Rongguang Yu
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    5sunking

    Good if you cut out the extended Drama scenes

    This movie wasn't too bad, and it was kind of a cool premise for the movie and it was even funny at times. The CGI and post apocalyptical scenery was nice to look at. However, the movie had about 25 minutes of extended Drama scenes that cut have been shortened from 25 minutes of drama to like 2 minutes. So for example if a key character dies, there is no need to spend the next 5 minutes sobbing and remembering the character. My guess is they added in these scenes to take the movie up to a respectable length. So what I recommend is skipping ahead when you come to these obvious dramatic moments. That is what I did and the movie was much much better that way.
    5Top_Dawg_Critic

    Style over substance.

    The visuals were decent - for 1990's CGI, and I can live with that, but the story, especially the dialogue, was too cliched and overly melodramatic. Even at a mere 89 min runtime, I got bored with the long dragged out and mostly unnecessary scenes. It was just the same cliched and predictable "stretched out to the max" scene after scene. The entire bridge crossing scene felt like it was 20 mins long, and you can easily predict what will happen each step of the way. This entire film could've easily been chopped down to a 20 min short film, and it would've been much more enjoyable. The casting and performances were ok for the most part, some too cheesy and forced for my liking. There are much better disaster films, even dating back to the 80's; this one was overhyped without reason. As much as the trailer looks inviting, the actual film is very lame. It's a very generous 5/10 from me.
    7lam3000

    i really enjoyed it

    Very fun film, i was very sceptical as usual with these chinese films with no other reviews, but my risk paid off!

    The film basically follows a father and daughter + some military guys on a journey to complete their mission.

    As we all know chinese cgi can sometimes be a bit ropey, that is somewhat true here but its more than serviceable, however some of it is really good and the scenery of the overgrown/postapocalyptic city is the star of the show, i was truley amazed at the visuals.

    The plant/monster things were very cool.

    The story and how things develop is very cliche and very hollywood which for me isnt a bad thing, why fix what isnt broke right.

    Overal a solid action sci/fi post apocalypse film.
    4okpilak

    Chinese busses are built strong

    There are certain things one expects in Chinese films. Some heavy handed propaganda and some terrible voice actors. This movie has an interesting premise, and could have been done much better. Specially engineered plants have suddenly become sentient, and have taken over the earth, and are feeding on all human and animal life to sustain them. The sets are done well, clearly with CGI, and the plants themselves are done very well, with plant and snake like features, and there is a lot of CGI in this movie. Teams of soldiers are to set out at specific points on the globe, to inject a substance into the roots of the plants to kill them off, and all the many sites must do that at the same time. And we follow one team. But first we meet a man and his daughter. His wife worked developing the plants, and died when they attacked. And he wants to protect his daughter at all costs. The young daughter has the worst possible voice actor and very limited vocabulary and her voice will grate at a person very quickly. A cross between whining and annoying. A team meets up with the father and daughter and slowly, members of the team are killed by the plants. Things start to get very melodramatic, in an excessive manner, which is part of the propaganda with films like this. But the idea is very interesting, as long as one does not ask too many questions. There is a scene with the team and father and daughter in a bus that tells a person those busses can really take a licking.
    5n_earl_roberts

    Oscar material it is not.

    Well, what a movie.

    Not exactly rife with deep philosophical under tones but if you check your brain in at the door and don't aim too high, you should not be overly disappointed.

    The story itself is pretty straight forward and is not what I would call taxing. Plants, mad scientists buggering with things they shouldn't be, end of the world, yada, yada, yada.

    The staging of the story was, well, nothing flash. The CQI and the set pieces were at best acceptable and at worse ordinary sometimes boarding on the laughable. For example, it was more than noticeable that as the characters were seen traversing the landscape between the high-rise buildings and the cars on the street in some scenes, the definition of the wider horizon of the landscape was decidedly flat in nature indicating an obvious green screen effect. It certainly screamed low budget.

    The other part of the staging of the story, the actors, is a different kettle of fish. Some of the acting was fine, some of the acting was more than a little melodramatic and some was just horrible. Case in point on this, the gentleman who played the rotund science tech "21" (and the comedy foil) simply put couldn't act. This criticism maybe harsh though as I watched the Chinese language version with subtitles (I cannot watch dubbed movies) and a lot of his lines obviously lost a lot in translation.

    Finally, the child.

    This child should win the Oscar for being the single most unwarranted and annoying child character in any movie since Dakota Fanning played Rachel Ferrier in Steven Spielberg's 2005 War of the Worlds. Certainly, as the film progresses and the child becomes progressive more annoying you hope that the plants do the viewers a favor and eat her and by the end of the movie, you are left wondering if the father saved the right person....

    As the movie goes, quite the mixed bag but I have seen worse so maybe 6 out of 10.

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      In the opening scene plants which have grown well outside of the atmosphere are shown. Plants need to respirate: the fluids in them would boil away at that height.

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    • Release date
      • September 20, 2022 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • China
    • Official site
      • Amazon
    • Language
      • Mandarin
    • Also known as
      • Tierra 0
    • Production companies
      • Beijing Qishu Youyu Culture Media
      • Jiangsu Zhongtianlong Media
      • Zhongguang Tianqi Media Co.
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      • $114,119
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      1 hour 29 minutes
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      • 2.66:1

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