Review of The Wandering Earth (2019) by Biotofu — 28 Feb 2019

The "science" in the movie is pretty laughable and seems to be very poorly researched to a point that it seems the story and plot are written by a class of middle schoolers. I do like the ludacris fresh idea of taking the entire earth with you instead of flying spaceships out of the solar system, even it makes very little sense due to cost/technology/resources (and then fueled by mined rocks or whatever instead of nuclear power???). The science is so backward it seems like ideas from the 50s. Unlikable underdeveloped characters were also a big issue. there were too many characters just to be killed off. the storys based on a chinese scifi novel but too much narration/exposition shows that the director just wasnt able to transfer the story from book to movie well. the music was also not very good. then in the second half of the movie there was too much editing which was very confusing especially when the camera was consistently shaking, switching from different locations/characters constantly..

And you cant light vodka on fire like that...