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The Day the Earth Stood Still
2008
· Movie
· 104 min
F
MEANRANK
48/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5441
- IMDb #5220
- Google retired #3490
- Rotten Tomatoes #4940
- Metacritic #4644
- Letterboxd #5464
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5059
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #5007
- Metacritic Critics #4246
- Metacritic Audience #4772
- Douban #2551
- Kinopoisk #4437
- AlloCiné #5334
- Trakt #4636
Every rating
21–66
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 21, highest is Google on 66. Critics average 30, everyone else 52.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A representative from an advanced alien civilization arrives on Earth. He is a humanoid accompanied by a powerful, indestructible robot. His mission is to deliver an ultimatum to humanity: change their destructive, warlike ways or face annihilation as the only way to preserve other life-sustaining planets in the universe.
Details
- Director
- Scott Derrickson
- Writer
- David Scarpa
- Based on
- The Day the Earth Stood Still
- Studio
- Dune Entertainment III, Earth Canada Productions, Hammerhead Productions, 3 Arts Entertainment
- Released
- 10 December 2008
- Country
- Canada, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $80.0M
- Box office
- $233.1M
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