Even a gargantuan Gort can't help this contrived Hollywood repeat:
http://www.wtf-film.com/ARTICLES/DECEMBER_2008/DAY_EARTH.shtml
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL [2008] Scott Derrickson
Kindest regards,
Kevin P.
http://www.wtf-film.com
Great review, I had the same reaction upon seeing it.
To me the movie was just a mess of CGI. There was roughly ten to fifteen minutes in the movie that had no CGI and ironically it was the best part of the movie - the scene with the mathmatician (John Cleese), and the scene with the alien (James Hong). If this movie had a little more of these scenes it would have been worth watching.