Jay Robinson

Never read the book so this is based solely on the story and it’s execution in the movie. This movie has so many good things going for it and an equal amount of stupid things going against it. It is full of action, explosions, amazing special effects with some very poor effects here and there. It also has the most ridiculous and convoluted story even for sci fi. GOOD: FX are more often than not amazing. Spectacular visuals then the stupidest vehicle animations. Overall it’s a 9/10 on the FX. Action and explosions are at least half of this movie. How anything or anyone survives what’s going on is mind blowing. And they are not afraid to kill people in this movie. Yeah yeah yeah, it’s all China is great this and China is great that, it’s there but not the point. Every single American movie has the white American way of life being the best so China wants their turn to hype themself. This movie does have a lot of social commentary about everyone working together and that’s pretty solid. BAD: the math doesn’t work. You can’t move the earth to Jupiter in a couple years. Yes they show the surface as being frozen since we’re moving away from the sun, and that would be true, but the execution of the whole “Moving the earth” is done stupid. Huge thrusters all over the surface, yeah ok, it would take thousands, but the fuel? 1 line of dialog says they are burning rocks. Sorry Charlie, we would run out of rocks long before we got to Jupiter, let alone Alpha Centauri. Food, animals, drinkable water, those are never addressed. There are so many little things that make zero sense I can’t list them, but there is an equal amount of cool things/visuals to keep you watching. The last little thing I notice and have to call out is this; you can literally fly the earth through space, you can have uninterrupted radio signals across the planet and under the surface then out into space, you can have wrist mounted displays with radios to talk to anyone anywhere, but the spaceship that is leading the path through space for earth to follow has a semi truck CB radio mic with a push button and curly cord at the captains chair?!?!?!?!?!

For a lower budget sci fi movie it honestly was really good. Alien Robot designs were uneven and moved like low budget sci fi robots, but there are enough scenes of them to make the movie worth watching. The thing I hate about these movies, which is largely due to budget constraints, is that the whole world is being defeated, modern military is wiped out but a ragtag group of Kenyan rebels with makeshift military vehicles and whatever guns they can find is really going to put up a fight? I’m sure in Kenya, the Kenyan soldiers and rebels can fight ok on their home tuff. But they don’t have M1A1 Abrams tanks. They don’t have F-22’s, they have scraps from Russia and England and whatever. It is done quite well, I’m just tired of world powers failing but stragglers with some pistols will put up a better fight?