The Asylum rip-off “The Day The Earth Stood Still” with the horrific “The Day The Earth Stopped”. This is just an awful movie that makes the 2008 remake of “The Day The Earth Stood Still” look like 1951 original classic.

Giant robots appear all over the world and nobody knows what to do. Two aliens also arrive on Earth and one of them wants to see the value of human civilisation. If the alien cannot be satisfied by humanity then the robots will destroy the planet. Josh Myron (C. Thomas Howell “The Hitcher”, “The Amazing Spider-Man”) has been selected by the aliens to showcase the best of humanity. However, others want to simply fight against the aliens.

The acting in this movie is just horrendous. Nobody here gives an even vaguely good performance. The aliens are not remotely interesting and they are so wooden that you can suddenly forgive Keanu Reeves’ performance in the 2008 “The Day The Earth Stood Still”. The other characters aren’t any better and some of them are really irritating with whiny voices. The dialog is also really bad throughout. The robots just look appalling. They barely move and they just look so unimpressive. The special effects are pathetic.

Please go and watch the original “The Day The Earth Stood Still” because it is a classic and even the 2008 remake isn’t all that bad but this rip-off is simply dreadful. It misses the point of the source material, it has abysmal acting, a spectacularly dumb script and rubbish special effects. There is no reason for this movie to exist other than to con people out of their money because they think they’re seeing the real movie. That kind of sums up the entire philosophy of the bulk of the movies from The Asylum but this one feels particularly bad because it does hardly anything original.