The Wandering Earth II (2023)
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Humans built huge engines on the surface of the earth to find a new home. But the road to the universe is perilous. In order to save earth, young people once again have to step forward to start a race against time for life and death.
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... Tu Hengyu
... Liu Peiqiang
... Zhang Peng
... Hao Xiaoxi
... Zhou Zhezhi
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Now then, it's best - I think - to just accept that there is very, very, little plausible science to this save-the-planet movie. The format, and the story, have oft been done by Hollywood before so it's not top of the originality tree either - but it's still quite a watchable and well produced story of a group of Chinese trainees who must raise their game when they find themselves trying to save the infrastructure being built to help save the planet from terrorists. It's extremely perilous for them, their enemy is sophisticated and well entrenched. When the moon becomes unstable, it again falls to them to stop it crashing into the Earth before a carefully placed series of thousands of engines around the globe can be activated to propel us all out of danger and off to a new orbit around Alpha Centauri. The acting talents and the dialogue are really neither here nor there, but the visual effects - especially at the start - are effective and the pace of the film is as times entertaining as this dedicated team - and others from around the world - must unite to thwart the unseen enemy and rescue mankind before it's all too late. It really does need shortening though. It could lose an hour and - tightened up - have a much more focussed and impactful storyline that would hold the attention just as well as any Western equivalents. It does need a big screen to get the best from the creativity of the visuals but students of physics (astro or otherwise) may blush at some of it!
Director:
Writer:
Frant Gwo (Screenplay)
Gong Geer (Screenplay)
Liu Cixin (Novel)
Yang Zhixue (Screenplay)
Ye Ruchang (Screenplay)
Wang Hongwei (Script Consultant)
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Release Date:
2023-01-22
Run Time:
173 min
MMPA Rating:
NR
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The Wandering Earth II
Now then, it's best - I think - to just accept that there is very, very, little plausible science to this save-the-planet movie. The format, and the story, have oft been done by Hollywood before so it's not top of the originality tree either - but it's still quite a watchable and well produced story of a group of Chinese trainees who must raise their game when they find themselves trying to save the infrastructure being built to help save the planet from terrorists. It's extremely perilous for them, their enemy is sophisticated and well entrenched. When the moon becomes unstable, it again falls to them to stop it crashing into the Earth before a carefully placed series of thousands of engines around the globe can be activated to propel us all out of danger and off to a new orbit around Alpha Centauri. The acting talents and the dialogue are really neither here nor there, but the visual effects - especially at the start - are effective and the pace of the film is as times entertaining as this dedicated team - and others from around the world - must unite to thwart the unseen enemy and rescue mankind before it's all too late. It really does need shortening though. It could lose an hour and - tightened up - have a much more focussed and impactful storyline that would hold the attention just as well as any Western equivalents. It does need a big screen to get the best from the creativity of the visuals but students of physics (astro or otherwise) may blush at some of it!
The Wandering Earth II or the "wandering script", as I call it, does nothing to improve upon a proposition that failed to work, the first time around.
Its alright to create a space saga but trying to cram the whole thing down the audiences throat in two sittings, is simply too much to ask. My wife, who is Chinese, became exasperated about half an hour in and I don't blame her.
There are simply too many disparate things going on at once, for this film to present anything, even a highly switched on viewer, like my economist other half, can reasonably follow.
What you are left with, is what amounts to mini films, that feel like little like extended trailers, cobbled together over an lengthy time line, that become so diffuse, as to loose the potential to represent any semblance of a comprehensible "whole".
Graphics are admittedly amazing, as are some of the sci fi conceptualisations. Acting's mostly pretty decent, too. That said, what are these elements without clarity of storytelling?
In summary, best described as an overly ambitious, ill considered "sci fi, hot mess" that's clearly had a lot of time and money invested in it. If this had been broken down into smaller, bite sized films with less crammed in, I think it could have worked, a lot better.
Cast & Crew of
The Wandering Earth II
Cast
... Tu Hengyu
... Liu Peiqiang
... Zhang Peng
... Hao Xiaoxi
... Zhou Zhezhi
... Mike
... Han Duoduo
... Herbert Copley
... Andrey Gerasinov
... Space Elevator Female Attacker
... Space Elevator Male Attacker A
... Space Elevator Male Attacker B
... Korean Pilot
... Tu Yaya
... Ma Zhao
... Wang Zhijian
... Tu Hengyu's Wife
... Thai Astronaut
... Wedding Host
... TV Presenter
... 4-Year-Old Liu Qi
... Construction Worker 1
... Construction Worker 2
... Construction Worker 3
... Chinese Chief Coordinator
... Zhou Zhezhi's Bodyguard
... Enthusiastic Passenger
... Emilia
... Diving Expert
... Electrical Engineer
... Chinese Father Underground City
... Chinese Mother Underground City
... Chinese Boy Underground City
... Chinese Girl Underground City
... Chinese Astronaut
... Departure Hall Young Soldier
... Young Diplomat
... MakaRov
... Young Man
... Liu Peiqiang's Mother
... Liu Peiqiang's Father
... Wang Hongwei
... Xu Jian
... Wang Sanshi
... Male Research Assistant
... Pilot
... Interpreter
Crew
... Co-Executive Producer
... Editor
... Presenter
... Presenter
... Casting
... Screenplay
... Director
... Stunt Coordinator
... Presenter
... Screenplay
... Producer
... Original Music Composer
... Costume Design
... First Assistant Camera
... Executive Producer
... Novel
... Stunts
... Director of Photography
... Camera Operator
... Steadicam Operator
... Props
... Stunts
... Presenter
... Producer
... Executive Producer
... Production Manager
... Screenplay
... Sound Supervisor
... Screenplay
... Presenter
... Executive Producer
... Property Master
... Production Design
... Visual Effects Supervisor
... Manager of Operations
... Script Consultant
... Sound Designer
... Editor
... Stunts
... First Assistant Camera
... Location Assistant
... Second Assistant Director
... Assistant Property Master
... Key Makeup Artist
... Data Wrangler
... Stunts
... Assistant Camera
... Steadicam Operator
... Second Assistant Camera
... Digital Imaging Technician
... Production Assistant
... Production Accountant
... Co-Executive Producer
... Co-Executive Producer
... Producer
... Presenter
... Presenter
... Presenter
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