The Wandering Earth (2019)
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Having raked in over $600m at the box office, The Wandering Earth is yet another massive blockbuster from China. You can watch online of free download the full movie, however, like so many enormous Chinese blockbusters in recent years, it’s all style and no substance, with excessive emphasis on special effects and incoherent fantasy that really impedes any attempts to craft a more elegant or majestic space opera. Don’t forget this page has The Wandering Earth (2019) watch online and The Wandering Earth (2019) free download full movie from Filmxy.
And that’s where I want to start, because from the beginning of this movie, you’ll likely be reminded of a number of other films that go about telling sci-fi stories in a rather different way. The Wandering Earth is based on a novel of its own, so it’s not in any way a Chinese remake, but the premise and key ideas explored in the film, particularly in the opening act, are hugely reminiscent of both Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Now, both Interstellar and 2001 are absolute masterpieces of modern sci-fi, because they tell a fantasy story with a stunning sense of grandeur and majesty that can’t be achieved in any other genre. In that, while both movies have a plot and characters of their own, it’s almost as if space itself is their main component, with astonishing visual effects playing into an eye-opening and almost spiritual depiction of the final frontier.
The Wandering Earth, on the other hand, takes a far more simplistic and unfortunately dull approach to telling a sci-fi story. It does have the special effects to dazzle (although I talk more about that in a moment), but it feels so much more like a formulaic space adventure movie, rather than the majestic space opera that it’s so desperately trying to be.
Its opening sequence depicts the ever-intensifying threat of celestial destruction, and throughout, the film relates personal difficulties and tragedies in tandem with the danger of space travel and colonisation. And yet, while all of those ingredients make the film ripe for the sort of emotionally hard-hitting and elegant watch that is a great space opera, it’s all overwhelmed by its more basic blockbuster tendencies.
In that, the film’s quartet of young leads takes a little of the grandeur out of the story, bringing it closer to something reminiscent of the YA genre, while the special effects are often totally over the top, with an excessively brash and chaotic depiction of the dangers and threats present in space, something that really isn’t necessary, as proved by better films such as Interstellar and Gravity.
On top of that, its near future setting, although only in the late 2050s, feels light years away from the present we know today. Unlike Interstellar, whose near future is almost identical to the present day, The Wandering Earth is full of fantasy and sci-fi gibberish about the Earth of the future that’s both fairly incomprehensible and difficult to relate to, further taking away from your ability to emotionally engross yourself in the story and feel the real power of what this story has to offer.
And I say that because, despite not thinking much of the movie, there are moments where the film really tries hard to be something more majestic and elegant than just another space adventure. Its fantasy and excessive special effects often make it feel more like Jupiter Ascending than Interstellar, but there are a few moments of emotional intrigue and pathos that do indicate its intentions, and briefly provide an engrossing and impressive respite from an otherwise both chaotic and formulaic movie.
Overall, then, I wasn’t particularly taken by The Wandering Earth. Its ambition is clear from the start, and with a premise that’s reminiscent of real greats of modern sci-fi, it should have been an elegant, moving and majestic watch. However, with a generic plot that’s far heavier on brash special effects, fantasy mumbo jumbo and chaotic action, it really misses the mark when delivering a sci-fi that’s a little more special to the normal fare.
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User 1 Review:
Here's a tip for budding film makers: when making a film in the "character study" genre, make the characters interesting. This movie fails at this. This movie consists of dozens of mostly depressing scenes of which any given one usually has no connection to what precedes or what follows. It was a painful endeavor to sit through this movie waiting in vain for something - anything - to happen. A couple of times I found myself actually slapping my forehead at the inanity being presented. I managed to make it past the one-hour mark before I availed myself, mercifully, of an early exit. There was a lot of "acting" happening with the cast in this film; unfortunately, they hadnt much to work with.
User 2 Review:
The critics are right about Gloria Bell and the audience is wrong: The film is a minor masterpiece, with a riveting performance by Julianne Moore. No, dopes, it is not necessary for a movie to have a "plot that moves along," or characters that "achieve some enlightenment in the end" or, worse still, is "uplifting" or "inspiring?! Not too much happens in the film, but that's really the point - the character here is stuck in a pattern of boredom and lack of love.. and the profile that emerges is highly original and moving. It's a quiet film that requires patience, which is richly rewarded.
User 3 Review:
Yikes! A depressing string of cliches about a divorced woman whose kids are slowly detaching, who has a romance you care nothing about and which ends badly, twice. Bizarre moments that seem like plot twists - the crazy neighbor pounding on her door, never to be addressed - but no, there IS no plot. This film seems to think it's artsy, but the emperor's clothes come off and reveal that it's just boring, pointless, and pretentiously glum. It doesn't end with her "finding her voice;" rather, in the last scene she looks like she's losing her mind. Worst film i've seen in recent memory. I stayed to marvel at what a terrible movie it was, and I wasn't disappointed.
User 4 Review:
A huge hint when reading these audience reviews: If it's several paragraphs long, expounding on the "delights" of this movie, it was probably written by someone attached to the film. The filmmakers forgot to provoke us to care. There is no redemption here, no Hero's Journey. The story has no arc, and the characters don't learn anything. There is no whip-smart banter, no clever surprise. If you want to spend two hours of your life watching the same irritating, horrible choices made over and over again with no change, this is your movie. Professional reviewers look for various components that have nothing to do with actual entertainment, which is the only possible reason that their scores are so much higher. Trust the audience on this one. You don't just have a few outliers. The majority is telling the truth.
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Posted on: May 4th, 2019
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