![]() ![]() ![]() Also, a very ill-advised rape joke? And some puke humor? Not sure what else to call it, really, other than "puke humor."īut every once in a while-whether its the characters' traversal of a silent Shanghai that's been enveloped by ice, or the lonely sight of a mostly dead Earth, meager engines burning, hanging in the endless void of space- The Wandering Earth feels grand, beautiful, and desolate, with a perspective that can only come from a straightforward accounting of humankind's impermanence and meaninglessness. Oh, and: giant lasers, strained excuses for action sequences, frantic countdown clocks, city-flattening catastrophes, slapstick "comic" relief, and, somehow, even a car crash or two. A wide-ranging group of bickering but earnest people are the only ones who can save the planet there are grand speeches about love and intention and sacrifice family bonds are tested even as the fate of Earth hangs in the balance. Liu's taste for both galaxy-spanning spectacle (Earth as a literal spaceship!) and consequential science (away from the sun, the surface of the "wandering Earth" becomes an uninhabitable, ice-covered hellscape, and that's not to mention how our stopping the the planet's rotation results in tsunamis that wipe out most of humankind) are a great fit for the big screen-and director Frant Gwo and an army of screenwriters supplement them by filling the film with every cliché that applies, for better and worse, to science-fiction and disaster movies. ![]()
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