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Final Days of Planet Earth, starring Daryl Hannah, Campbell Scott, Gil Bellows, Suleka Mathew, and Serge Houde\u00a0 is a two-part movie that runs 170 minutes all total, a bit long for most family movie nights, but great for wiling away a rainy afternoon.\u00a0 The movie is unrated, but I would consider it to be family friendly: no excessive profanity, no nudity or overly gory scenes.\u00a0 So, pop up a big bowl of popcorn and settle in with the whole clan.<\/p>\n
A mining mission to the moon returns with some unplanned passengers.\u00a0 These aliens reach Earth and set about their plans to subdue humanity and use them for their own ends.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to spoil it for you, so I won\u2019t go into too much detail on that.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Rescue from alien domination must come from an odd assortment of non-heros who stumble into the plot but are unable to get any help from the military or intelligence bureaus because the aliens have control of all communications channels out of the city.\u00a0 The leader of this gang of misfits is an absolute anti-hero archeologist who openly displays a disdain for humanity and its ability to survive (partly because he spends his days digging up their failed attempts and studying them), yet when that survival is threatened he leads the charge to fight back.<\/p>\n
Together they attempt to discover why so many people have disappeared.\u00a0 They must gain access to the enigmatic Room 86, find out what\u2019s going on, how it relates to the mysterious fungus they keep finding, and what they can do about it.<\/p>\n
The special effects and sets are pretty good.\u00a0 The aliens are particularly good.\u00a0 The human acting isn\u2019t world class, but it\u2019s not horrible either.\u00a0 The script, however, is pretty lame especially in the first half.\u00a0 What is intended to be witty banter comes off as awkward and wooden.<\/p>\n
There are also a lot of opportunities to poke fun at the plot: aliens that can speak English while dressed in their human disguise but not when au-natural?\u00a0 But then how does an 8 foot tall six legged insect squeeze into a human suit and then walk around gracefully anyway?\u00a0 The second half is better written and the level of intrigue picks up as well.\u00a0 At no point were we left thinking that washing the dinner dishes would be preferable to watching the movie.<\/p>\n
There will be no awards for this one, but if you like classic Sci-Fi, especially alien invasion flicks, Final Days of Planet Earth<\/strong><\/em> deserves a place on your movie shelf. When all is said and done, it was an entertaining, if slightly schlocky, piece of science fiction tale telling. This one is available in DVD widescreen and on Blu-Ray. Amazon has it for sale used starting at 50 cents as of this writing, just under $3.00 for a new one. Either way it\u2019s an inexpensive afternoon or evening of Sci-Fi fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Final Days of Planet Earth, starring Daryl Hannah, Campbell Scott, Gil Bellows, Suleka Mathew, and Serge Houde is a two-part movie that runs 170 minutes all total, a bit long for most family movie nights, but great for wiling away a rainy afternoon. The movie is unrated, but I would consider it to be family … Continue reading “Movie Review: Final Days of Planet Earth”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[95,14,13],"class_list":["post-6704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share-the-love","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-scifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19515,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704\/revisions\/19515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}