If nothing else, it is an interesting exercise to watch this Chinese mega-blockbuster that is showing on Netflix. This is Chinese film meeting Hollywood sci-fi-disaster movie head on and then some, with the daftest high concept premise imaginable that bears no scrutiny whatsoever: faced with a dying Sun, move the entire Earth to a new solar system! The main influence here seems to be the Roland Emmerich movies such as 2012, Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, but written and presented on an incredibly huge scale, and - most surprisingly - the effects work mostly holds up and delivers. As expected of the Far East style, the acting is suitably unrestrained to Western viewers, but the (preposterous) storytelling hangs together, spectacle is the order of the day and The Wandering Earth is unexpectedly and absurdly entertaining.
No comments:
Post a Comment