The Day the Earth Stood Still/地球停转之日

This movie is a remake one, and of course it makes much progress in visual effect. But overall the story is under my expectation. Since the ET is some species with higher IQ than human beings, I would hope the ET guy (by Keanu Reeves) would have offered some more rational methods in persuading the whole earth from hurting themselves, rather than just sacrifice himself for some emotional reasons. Come on, prove you are much cleverer than human beings, not that you are as sentimental as we the people.

I know there is some historical background for this movie to make it more meaningful than it looked: it was the era of cold war when the original movie was launched. And the people may really have destroyed ourselves it we had been a little more irrational at that time. Yet, this is meaningful nowadays, but it might be better if the director made it more rational.

Performance impression:
Director: Scott Derrickson
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith