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Friday, December 12, 2008 12:00 AM

"The Day the Earth Stood Still"

This supremely lame update of the sci-fi classic, starring Keanu Reeves, is assembled out of bits of every movie where an unknown whatzit threatens our way of life.
By Andrew O'Hehir

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  • Saturday, December 13, 2008 03:12 PM

    I can really afford to see only one movie this season, but I may save up for two!

    This sounds like good, mindless, special-effects entertainment and will get me and a friend out of our houses, (please God, please!) during the interminable Christmas. I don't care about the female stick insect in it, and I don't care much about the lame update of the story. But I DO care to gaze upon Keanu Reeves. Still knockout gorgeous after all these years. There are so many ugly men in the movies now, Keanu is like a diamond in a tray of cubic zirconia, at least looks-wise.

    —marco polo Read marco polo's other letters

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