Chinese Sci-Fi Movie The Wandering Earth 3 Will Hit the Big Screen on February 6, 2027
The much-anticipated press conference for "The Wandering Earth III" has officially set the cinematic world abuzz, announcing the release date for the upcoming blockbuster as the first day of the Chinese New Year in 2027. The unveiling was accompanied by the launch of the film's first teaser trailer.
Chinese sci-fi movie The Wandering Earth 3 released its first trailer today. #TheWanderingEarth #Movie #ScienceFiction #LiuCixin The movie also announced that it will officially be released on February 6, 2027. Stay tuned! pic.twitter.com/aGIaxB66zF — Superpixel (@superpixelnews) November 3, 2023
Under the steadfast direction of Frant Gwo, who returns to helm the third installment, the scriptwriting trio of Gwo, Yang Zhixue, and Gong Ge'er promise to weave another epic narrative in the saga. Familiar faces from the previous films grace the roster, with actors Wu Jing, Andy Lau, and Li Xuejian reprising their roles and gracing the conference stage. Joining them were Sha Yi, Ning Li, Yang Haoyu, Qu Chuxiao, Wang Zhi, and Zhu Yanmanzi, adding star power to the already stellar lineup.
As for the duration of the film, director Frant Gwo indicated that the length is currently undecided since filming has not yet begun, but assured that efforts would be made to keep the movie's runtime reasonable.
In "The Wandering Earth III," humanity faces the impending destruction of the sun and crafts colossal thrusters on the Earth's surface, embarking on a perilous quest for a new home. Amidst the cosmic perils, the young heroes of the wandering Earth era rise once again, engaging in a race against time and a battle for survival that will dictate the fate of the planet...
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Watch how a studio created The Wandering Earth’s fantastic world in this VFX reel
A sign of how far the chinese film industry has come.
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In The Wandering Earth , the sun will soon expand and destroy the Earth, so engineers concoct an ambitious plan — move the planet to another solar system, using giant engines. China’s first big science fiction film is a goofy disaster movie , with some outstanding special effects that bring the world to life. One of the studios behind the special effects, Pixomondo, has released a VFX breakdown that shows how one of the special effects studios created the futuristic, frozen Earth and its massive Earth engines.
Since its release last month, the film has gone on to earn a staggering $641 million , and has become the second-largest Chinese film to date. That’s a good sign for China’s domestic film market, which has been growing in recent years as more of its citizens go to the movies.
This reel shows off that Pixomondo created much of the film’s numerous locations and features digitally — such as the massive Earth engines, a frozen Beijing, the massive vehicles that the characters drive around, and quite a bit more. Much of the film is digitally generated, showing just how far the industry has come.
Pixomondo has worked on a wide range of films, from Chinese films like Ice Fantasy to Flying over Jiangzi, to US productions such as Wonder Woman, Game of Thrones , and more. In a post , it explains that it was responsible for 216 shots in the film, which included assets for everything from the vehicles to environments, and prompted the company to “build an entirely new scene management pipeline and tools to handle the heavy workload for this project.”
Having good special effects has long been a particular bottleneck for locally-produced science fiction films, as audiences have become accustomed to the level of quality seen in Hollywood releases. Chinese science fiction author and screenwriter Anna Wu told The Verge late last year that investors have been wary of producing big-budget science fiction films, because of that high bar — and there have been missteps along the way. Another film based on Cixin Liu’s (who also wrote The Wandering Earth ) The Three-Body Problem, was produced, but has since sat on a shelf, its future uncertain.
If you missed the film’s limited run in the US, you’ll soon be able to catch it on a screen near you: Netflix recently picked up the rights to stream the film.
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The Wandering Earth II review – blockbuster Chinese sci-fi prequel veers off course
Frant Gwo’s follow-up to his 2019 mega-hit favours special effects and set pieces over performances, as the human race battles for survival
A gargantuan success in 2019, Frant Gwo’s The Wandering Earth remains one of the highest grossing non-English films of all time. This hotly anticipated prequel, even more ambitious in scope, follows the catastrophic events leading up to the Earth leaving the solar system in the original hit.
At nearly three hours long, The Wandering Earth II is packed with expository science talk, which gets more convoluted and tiring as the clock ticks on. The gist of the matter is, in the face of imminent ecological disasters, an internationally consolidated government body has hatched a solution to alter the orbit of our planet. It also involves blowing up the moon. As well as resistance from (mostly) western countries, the decades-spanning enterprise is also routinely sabotaged by the rival Digital Life Project, which looks to virtual reality as a new beginning for the human race.
Against the threat of total extinction and the unsettling ubiquity of AI, the question of what it means to be human lies at the heart of this prequel, whose sombre silver-grey colour palette marks a stark departure from the first film. Ironically enough, in this case, characters played by superstars like Wu Jing or Andy Lau take a backseat to the admittedly spectacular CGI effects.
In the end, the emphasis on set pieces over performances renders the collective plight of humanity emotionally distant and impersonal. Various mentions of how machines will take over human jobs also finds a strange echo in the film-making itself: Ng Man-tat died from cancer in 2021, yet his character from The Wandering Earth makes a cameo appearance in this prequel via AI technology. It is a gesture of tribute that, within the context of the film, feels oddly unsettling.
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To successfully imitate the kind of mega-budget worldwide blockbuster most closely associated with Hollywood productions, filmmaker Frant Gwo literally went global. 2019’s The Wandering Earth , a sci-fi disaster adventure that became one of China’s biggest-ever box-office hits, takes place in a future world where Earth has been implanted with thrust rockets and piloted out of orbit to avoid a solar disaster. Astronauts must steer the spaceship-planet to a new home, while the surface freezes and its diminished inhabitants huddle underground.
The film’s enormous scope helped the movie become a Chinese smash, though it fell short of a worldwide phenomenon. (In the U.S., it had a limited theatrical run, then premiered on Netflix a few months later.) Wandering Earth ’s extensive, sometimes convoluted world-building, drawn from a short story by The Three-Body Problem author Cixin Liu , left plenty of room for a follow-up. But Gwo must have grown attached to the less icy version of his home planet, because The Wandering Earth II , receiving a somewhat wider U.S. release alongside its Chinese debut, is something even less likely than a disaster-movie sequel: a disaster-movie prequel.
Set across multiple decades leading up to Earth’s launch out of orbit (enabled by thousands of fusion-powered engines around the globe), the prequel starts off with plenty of its predecessor’s grab-bag maximalism. There’s a seemingly mad scientist extolling the virtues of a “digital you that can live forever” — an AI-based plan pitched as an alternate way to survive the coming apocalypse. (It’s unclear, but it sounds like the idea was to upload everyone to a Matrix-esque digital world, and leave the actual one to fry.) Pro-digital terrorist groups attack a massive space elevator, explosions and low-gravity fisticuffs erupt, and we learn that 91% of Americans oppose moving Earth out of orbit because they don’t think a problem 100 years away is worth solving. (“The world isn’t on the side of the reality,” one official laments.)
The sprawling results initially feel like a mashup of Don’t Look Up and Independence Day: Resurgence , but as the film enters its second hour, then its third, it brings in even more familiar bits and pieces of other movies. (It runs 173 minutes, including credits and multiple postscripts.) There is so much movie in The Wandering Earth II , and so many disasters, countdowns, and chyrons to go around. The movie may set a record for the sheer number of subtitled locations, timelines, characters, and occasionally even hardware. The first movie’s astronaut, Liu Peiqiang (Wu Jing) gets a backstory. So does one of the computer systems. The writing team steals bits of Interstellar one moment, and engages in parallel thinking with Moonfall the next. (“The moon disintegrates in 179 hours.”)
But perhaps the goofiest thing about Wandering Earth II is how resolutely un-goofy much of it is. There are moments of absurdity, but the film is often surprisingly grim, in a way that feels admirably ambitious but questionably useful. Much of the movie has a downbeat moon-gray palette, even in scenes that don’t take place on the moon. The saddest storyline it weaves across the decades is about Tu Hengyu (Andy Lau), a scientist grieving the loss of his wife and daughter, convinced he can fine-tune the digital echo of his young child into a fuller AI consciousness. (Here, there are thematic parallels with Yeon Sang-ho’s JUNG_E , a fleeter and more manageable science fiction movie premiering on Netflix right as Wandering Earth II lumbers into theaters.)
The dead-family storyline isn’t the only obligatory pause for pathos, either. Another character must deal with his wife’s imminent death, since cancer cases have spiked during the rise of dangerous solar activity. At the same time, he’s trying to secure one of the limited tickets to an underground city.
In many ways, Gwo carries this heaviness with more grace than the supposed masters of the modern form. Unlike Roland Emmerich (whose work the Wandering Earth series generally resembles) or Michael Bay (whose Armageddon feels like part of this movie’s DNA), Gwo isn’t afraid of quiet moments amid the bombast. He doesn’t nervously pack his movies with goony comic relief or shameless ploys for applause. Some of his imagery has an eerie, almost mournful beauty — even more so than the previous movie, which found some poetic imagery among the chintzier-looking special effects.
Yet none of this keeps exhaustion from setting in over the course of nearly three hours. Exactly how many countdowns to possible apocalypse can a movie bear, especially when the planet is demonstrably intact at the beginning of the next movie? The audience knows Earth survives, which turns Wandering Earth II into a torture device for its new characters: The planet will keep going, but these poor suckers can still get put through the wringer.
That obviously isn’t Gwo’s intention, and it is remarkable that his three-hour Wandering Earth prequel is simultaneously stranger and more emotionally grounded than the earlier film. Yet even at this length, even with eye-popping moments and believable characters, some crucial humanity feels missing. Classic disaster movies offer something similar to the feel of a horror movie: the terror of annihilation and the catharsis of survival, but spread over a larger canvas. Maybe that model just doesn’t work anymore. Skillfully made as it is, Wandering Earth II feels more like immersion therapy for the modern onslaught of apocalyptic news from around the world. Like franchises, global disasters no longer really end.
The Wandering Earth II opens in theaters on Sunday, Jan. 22, the first day of the lunar new year. Check the movie’s website for locations.
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BEIJING — China was a latecomer to space exploration, and in the movies, it has been a latecomer to science fiction, too. That is about to change.
The country’s first blockbuster set in space, “The Wandering Earth,” opens Tuesday amid grandiose expectations that it will represent the dawning of a new era in Chinese filmmaking.
It is one in a series of ambitious, big-budget films tackling a genre that, until now, has been beyond the reach of most filmmakers here — technically and financially. Those movies include “ Shanghai Fortress ,” about an alien attack on Earth, and “ Pathfinder ,” about a spaceship that crashes on a desert planet.
“Filmmakers in China see science fiction as a holy grail,” said Raymond Zhou, an independent critic, who noted that Hollywood had set the technological standards, and thus audience expectations, very high.
“The Wandering Earth,” shown in 3-D, takes place in a distant future in which the sun is about to expand into a red giant and devour the Earth.
The impending peril forces the world’s engineers to devise a plan to move the planet to a new solar system using giant thrusters. Things go very badly when Earth has to pass Jupiter, setting off a desperate scramble to save humanity from annihilation.
The special effects — like the apocalyptic climatic changes that would occur if Earth suddenly moved out of its cozy orbit — are certain to be measured against Hollywood’s, as ever here. And the preliminary reviews have been positive.
“It’s like the coming-of-age of the industry,” Zhou said.
“The Wandering Earth” opens with the Lunar New Year, the beginning of an official, weeklong holiday that is traditionally a peak box-office period in China. It has a limited release in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
At home, it will compete with “Crazy Alien,” a comedy inspired by “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” about two brothers hoping to capitalize on the arrival of a visitor from outer space.
Both “The Wandering Earth” and “Crazy Alien” are adapted from works by Liu Cixin, the writer who has led a renaissance in science fiction here, becoming the first Chinese winner of the Hugo Award for the genre in 2015.
His novels are sprawling epics and deeply researched. That makes them plausible fantasies about humanity’s encounters with a dangerous universe. Translating them into movies would challenge any filmmaker, as the director of “The Wandering Earth,” Guo Fan, acknowledged during a screening in Beijing last week.
That has made the film, produced by Beijing Jingxi Culture & Tourism Company and the state-owned China Film Group Corp., a test for the industry.
Guo, who uses the name Frant Gwo in English, noted that Chinese audiences have responded coolly to many of Hollywood’s previous sci-fi blockbusters. Studios, therefore, have been wary of investing the resources required to make convincing sci-fi.
The film’s budget reportedly reached nearly $50 million, modest by Hollywood standards but still significant here in China. More than 7,000 people were involved in the production. Much of it was filmed in the new Oriental Movie Metropolis, an $8 billion studio in the coast city of Qingdao, built by the real estate and entertainment giant Dalian Wanda.
“I really hope that this movie will not lose money at least,” said Guo, whose previous film, “My Old Classmate,” was a romantic comedy. “As long as this one does not lose money, we can continue to make science-fiction films.”
The popularity of Liu’s novels could help. So could two recent Hollywood films, “Gravity” and “The Martian.” Both included important plot twists that, not incidentally, cast China’s space program in a positive light, and both were huge hits here.
The openings also come as China reached a milestone in space: the landing of a probe on the far side of the moon in January. Although decades behind Russia and the United States, China has now put astronauts in orbit and has ambitious plans to join — or even lead — a new age of space exploration.
“I think there is a very close connection between Chinese cinema and the nation’s fortunes,” said Sha Dan, a curator at the China Film Archive , who moderated a discussion with Guo.
He cited the most popular film in China last year: “Operation Red Sea,” an action drama loosely based on the Chinese rescue of several hundred civilians from Yemen when war erupted there in 2015.
“When we have the ability to go to war, we can make movies like ‘Operation Red Sea,’” he said, alluding to China’s military modernization in recent years. “Only when China can enter the space era can we make works like ‘The Wandering Earth.’”
Unlike “Operation Red Sea” or the two “Wolf Warrior” movies, which featured a Rambo-like hero battling Western villains, “The Wandering Earth” is not jingoistic, though it does star Wu Jing, the hero of the “Wolf Warrior” films, who put up his own investment in the project. He plays an astronaut aboard an international space station who has to contend with a HAL-like computer.
Guo said he consciously avoided making Wu’s character a do-it-alone superhero. The fight to save Earth is fought instead by an ensemble, including an affable Russian cosmonaut who explains why his country prohibited alcohol in space, at least officially. (To say more would be a spoiler.)
“The Wandering Earth” takes for granted China’s central role in future space exploration, but it also has a vision of the international collaboration necessary to cope with the threats facing the planet, a theme that runs deeply through Liu’s fiction. Liu, who attended a screening last week, noted that science-fiction films in China dated as far back as the 1930s, when the director Yang Xiaozhong made ones like “Exchanged” and “Visiting Shanghai After 60 Years,” but those were largely forgotten here after the Communist revolution in 1949.
A 1980 movie, “ Death Ray on Coral Island ,” was a campy, propagandistic flop. There have been few attempts since.
“This is mainly because Chinese society is relatively closed and conservative,” Liu said in a written response to questions. “There were not the conditions for science-fiction movies to have an impact.”
A film project based on Liu’s best-known work, the trilogy that began with “The Three-Body Problem,” was optioned and even filmed in 2015 but has since languished in postproduction, reportedly because of technical challenges and costs.
The conditions now seem ripe. Seeing the “The Wandering Earth” on the screen, Liu said, was “soul shaking.”
Claire Fu contributed research
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In the near future, after learning that the sun is rapidly burning out and will obliterate Earth in the process, humans build enormous engines to propel the planet to a new solar system, far out of reach of the sun's fiery flares. However, the journey out into the universe is perilous, and humankind's last shot at survival will depend on a group of young people brave enough to step up and execute a dangerous, life-or-death operation to save the earth.
Genre: Sci-fi, Action, Adventure
Original Language: Chinese
Director: Frant Gwo
Producer: Gong Geer
Writer: Yang Zhixue , Gong Geer , Frant Gwo , Ruchang Ye
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 22, 2023 limited
Release Date (DVD): Dec 19, 2023
Box Office (Gross USA): $5.0M
Runtime: 2h 53m
Distributor: Well Go USA Entertainment
Production Co: CFC Pictures, China Film Group Corporation, Beijing Dengfeng International Culture Communications Company, G!Film Studio, Rollin Studios
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Liu Peiqiang
Yanmanzi Zhu
Fengyi Zhang
Zina Blahusova
Nurse Judith Hogan
Temur Mamisashvili
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American Astronaut Cadet
Jeremiah Blakely
Yang Zhixue
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Hanrui Wang
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China's sci-fi epic "The Wandering Earth" series made a buzz during this year's China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival, winning awards and announcing the third installment.
Director Frant Gwo and producer Fu Ruoqing pose for a photo holding the grand jury prize for "The Wandering Earth II" backstage at the 36th Golden Rooster Awards held in Xiamen, Fujian province, Nov. 4, 2023. [Photo/VCG]
"The Wandering Earth II," the latest movie in the franchise adapted from sci-fi writer Liu Cixin's bestselling novella, won two awards — the grand jury prize and best sound recording — at the 36th Golden Rooster Awards on Saturday in Xiamen, Fujian province. Four years ago, the first installment took home the best picture award at the 32nd Golden Rooster Awards.
Just a day earlier, the cast and crew reunited at a press conference to express their gratitude to their fans and supporters. They also announced that work has begun on "The Wandering Earth 3 ," which is scheduled for release during China's Spring Festival in 2027, precisely three years, three months and three days later. The news generated waves of anticipation and quickly soared to the top of the trending topics chart on social media platforms.
Director Frant Gwo also revealed to the attendees that they are planning to bring back nearly all the cast members in the third movie for a nostalgic climax. This would include characters who have already died in the first and second installments, such as those portrayed by Wu Jing, Andy Lau and Tong Liya. Gwo will co-write the script with his long-time partner Gong Ge'er and Yang Zhixue.
"I often check online posts and fan creations, and many fans offer me ideas, and help me think about how my character Liu Peiqiang should be resurrected in 'The Wandering Earth 3 '," joked Wu Jing.
Cast and crew of "The Wandering Earth" trilogy pose for a photo at a press conference during the 2023 China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival in Xiamen, Fujian province, Nov. 3, 2023. [Photo courtesy of Daan Pictures]
According to the brief synopsis provided, "The Wandering Earth 3 " will center around humanity's response to the impending destruction of the sun. In an effort to find a new home in a different solar system, colossal thrusters are constructed on the Earth's surface. These thrusters aim to move the entire planet into deep space for a journey that is fraught with crises. To save the planet, the young people of the Wandering Earth era step up for the third time, embarking on a life-and-death battle as they race against time.
The producers of the film promised to continue exploring China's film industrial production and system while adopting the latest technology. In fact, since "The Wandering Earth II" was released earlier this year, the crew has already visited several tech and film companies at home and abroad to conduct further research. At the Friday press conference, they even unveiled a new film industrial lab named "G!lab" to explore how AI can revolutionize the film industry, marking a new era of film industrialization.
"The Wandering Earth" franchise has been a resounding success. The first film earned 4.69 billion yuan in China, while the second earned 4.03 billion yuan. At the 19th Chinese American Film Festival, "The Wandering Earth II" received the best film award at the Golden Angel Awards held in Los Angeles on Nov. 1. The film was also chosen as the Chinese submission to compete in the best international feature film category at the 2024 Oscars.
A teaser poster for "The Wandering Earth 3." [Photo courtesy of Daan Pictures]
Even Liu Cixin, the author of the novella on which the films are based, is eager to see more installments. In a video he sent to the press conference, he urged the "The Wandering Earth 3" crew to start working as soon as possible, joking: "In the first one, you blew up Jupiter, in the second one, you blew up the moon. What planet are you going to blow up in the third one?"
Later, Liu also wrote a post on microblog platform Weibo praising director Gwo's innovative thinking and exploration of the story: "Making a sci-fi film that feels like a documentary of the future is no easy task. I believe director Frant Gwo and his team will undoubtedly deliver an even more exciting story for everyone."
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10 Feb – Frant Gwo recently revealed that he has plans for movie number three when it comes to his hit Lunar New Year entry, "The Wandering Earth", though it will not be anytime soon.
The filmmaker, who attended a press conference for "The Wandering Earth 2" recently, stated that he needs four years between each movie to enable him to come out with a good film.
"I will need six months after the release to do a large-scale research, and also review the weaknesses of the previous film," he said.
At the same time, the film producer revealed that the movie will soon be released in Russia and Africa, and that they are currently preparing for related matters.
"The Wandering Earth 2", a sequel to the 2019 movie based on the short story by Liu Cixin, made USD 501.9 million at the box office. The first film, on the other hand, amassed USD 700 million when it was released.
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"The Wandering Earth" cured my winter depression.
Seriously: on opening night, I happily joined a packed Times Square auditorium-full of moviegoers watching this science-fiction adventure, which stars a talented ensemble of of Mandarin-speaking actors trying to stop the Earth from crashing into Jupiter. I left the theater hoping that "The Wandering Earth" would be one of this year's Chinese New Year's hits . It grossed $300 million in China during its opening week alone, a hopeful sign that we'll see more entertainment as assured as this.
The setup might seem familiar at first. Two teams of astronauts fight to save the Earth years after its leaders transformed it into a planet-sized spaceship to escape destruction by an overactive sun. The first team is a two-man skeleton crew: the square-jawed Peiqiang Liu ( Jing Wu ) and his Russian cosmonaut buddy Makarov ( Arkady Sharogradsky ). The other is a small exploratory group led by Peiqiang's feisty twentysomething son Qi Liu (Chuxio Qu) and his upbeat partner Duoduo Han (Jinmai Zhao). These factions respectively spend most of their time battling MOSS, an unhelpful computer in a remote space station; and exploring an ice-covered Earth in stolen all-terrain vehicles (some of which bring to mind "Total Recall," specifically the tank-sized drill-cars).
But while director Frant Gwo and his writing team blend Cixin Liu's source novel with elements from American-made sci-fi disaster films—including " Armageddon ," " The Day After Tomorrow ," and "Sunshine"—they synthesize them in a visually dynamic, emotionally engaging way that sets the project apart from its Western cousins, and marks it as a great and uniquely Chinese science fiction film.
For one thing, rather than build the tale around a lone hero ringed by supporting players, "The Wandering Earth" distributes bravery generously amid an ensemble that includes action hero Wu; rising stars Qu and Zhao; and comedy institution Man-Tat Ng, who plays a grey-bearded spaceman named Zi'ang Ha. The script, credited to a team of six, never valorizes a singular chest-puffing hero, nor does it scapegoat a mustache-twirling antagonist (not even MOSS, the sentient, HAL-9000-style computer program in the space station).
The teamwork theme is cross-generational, too. Both Peiqiang and Ng (formerly the straight man to film comedy superstar Stephen Chow ) are treated with reverence because they're older, and are therefore presumed to have more experience and stronger moral fiber. The veterans work well with the film's younger astronauts, whose optimism makes them as brazen as they are idealistic.
This apolitical blockbuster about a post-climate-change disaster extends its belief in teamwork to the rest of the international community. The movie is filled with narrative diversions that reassure viewers that no single country's leaders are smarter, more responsible, or more capable than the rest—except, of course, for the Chinese.
Second, "The Wandering Earth" looks better than most American special-effects spectaculars because it gives you breathing space to admire landscape shots of a dystopian Earth that suggest old fashioned matte-paintings on steroids. Although Gwo and his team realized their expensive-looking vision with the help of a handful of visual effects studios, including the Weta Workshop , they have somehow blended their many influences in bold, stylish ways that only Hollywood filmmakers like James Cameron and Steven Spielberg have previously managed.
Third, the film's creators breathe new life into hackneyed tropes. Gwo and his team take a little extra time to show off the laser beams, steering wheels, and hydraulic joints on their space cars and exoskeleton suits, to make the gear seem unique. And the storytelling goes extra mile to show viewers the emotional stress and natural obstacles that the characters must overcome while solving scientifically credible dilemmas (all vetted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences). This movie may not be the next " 2001: A Space Odyssey ," but it's everything "2010: The Year We Make Contact" should have been (and I like "2010," a lot).
A week after seeing "The Wandering Earth," I'm still marveling at how good it is. I can't think of another recent computer-graphics-driven blockbuster that left me feeling this giddy because of its creators' can-do spirit and consummate attention to detail. The future is here, and it is nerve-wracking, gorgeous, and Chinese.
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