the audience applauded

Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Here goes. This movie was so bad, it wasn't even so bad that it was good like some movies I know... this one was just long, boring and rotten. Stay away, far away from this one!This movie was so bad, it wasn't even so bad that it was good like some movies I know... this one was just long, boring and rotten. Stay away, far away from this one!This movie was so bad, it wasn't even so bad that it was good like some movies I know... this one was just long, boring and rotten. Stay away, far away from this one!

I did not care at all for The Day the Earth Stopped. However it is not the Asylum's worst, Alien Origin, Titanic II, 2010: Moby Dick, Transmorphers and AVH: Alien Hunter are much worse as well as Paranormal Entity. That still doesn't make it a good movie though. The soundtrack was tolerable, and the effects are a little better than substandard though still not that great. But that is it for the good things. The sets are very uninteresting and limited and the editing very choppy, you can tell that The Day the Earth Stopped was made on a low budget and it really shows. The script ranges from cheesy to almost a non-event, while the story has no momentum or sense of thrills or suspense whatsoever and further undermined by obvious and unforgivable lapses in logic covered in other reviews. The characters are too underdeveloped and stereotypical for the audience to empathise with or care about, and the acting is terrible. Thomas C Howell and the female lead look pained and have the emotions of cardboard, while Judd Nelson is underused. All in all, not the Asylum's worst but still a very poor film with more bad than good. 3/10 Bethany Cox

The special effects, acting, and directing is on par with your average B movie. No surprises there. And there are a lot of scenes I might have done differently had I done this film. But that's half the fun of it, thinking about what I would do differently. The SFX weren't too bad either. Well, the robots were pretty good at least.And the story is far more faithful to the original 1950's movie than that Hollywood piece of drivel they pumped out with the A-list actors and the so-well-known title. I'd say it's worth watching. And none of that crap about the environment in it. They stuck to the "humanity is too dangerous to be allowed free reign in the universe" line of the original. With a few twists thrown in for some flavor. All in all a fun little film.

It just wasn't up with the times in terms of effects, I think as a kid I would have liked it but now as a supposed adult, I found it a little ridiculous.Acting was sub-par except for the main Josh character. Quite a few disconnects in editing.Didn't like the girl main character, she was too model-like, not sci-fi enough.I think another movie just like this came out last year with Canoehead Reeves that I remember. That movie was better simply because the effects were better. The acting was also sub-par in that movie but I liked it better than this one.Sci-Fi not up to par lately. Going to review Star Trek next.