Day The Earth Stood Still, The

A remake of the 1951 classic sci-fi film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth, The Day The Earth Stood Still stays truer to the short story upon which the 1951 movie is based, Farewell To The Master by Harry Bates. Keanu Reeves stars as Klaatu, an otherworldly being whose arrival on Earth triggers an unstoppable series of events that threaten all of mankind. The alien's weapon is an indestructible super-robot, who energizes when threatened and transforms into a cloud of black insects capable of rapid movement and disintegrating matter on contact. When a woman (Connelly) and her young stepson (Smith) find themselves embroiled in the alien's plan, they become the world's only hope to stave off apocalyptic annihilation. (Gary Reber)