The Wandering Earth II

1/ Get a IMAX ticket if you can. The film is 2D no need the 3D glasses but the special effects is absolutely amazing. Especially in the first 40 minutes, the effect of showing space elevator in the movie blow my mind.

2/ I like the concept of this movie, when human face disaster, all countries and nations unit as one to get through it instead of waiting some kind of not exist supper hero to save.

3/ From a interview of Liu Cixin( the author of The Wandering Earth) in CCTV. Movie TWE2 is a totally extended story. The screenwriter wrote a movie world view of 200,000 words.

4/ Most scene of this movie is filmed in Qingdao city, Shandong province.

5/ Actor who cast Zhou Zhezhi got nasopharyngeal carcinoma in 2000. He lost most part of his voice after surgical operation but he insist to use his own voice during filming. Most of his voice in movie was fixed by AI.

6/ Young Tu hengyu(casted by Andy Lau ) and Liu peiqiang(casted by Wu Jing) in movie used AI technology to create the their young looks by learning actors' pictures. And one more interesting thing, even though the AI can fix the man 40 year-old face to 20 year-old, but it is difficulty to let a 40 year-old man who act the version in 20 year- old himself. However, the director Guo Fan find a 21 year old actor to do the acting once. Then Wu Jing shadow it. That's so funny.

This is a massive movie that has many many absolutely amazing scenes. I was really blown away, but after an hour I was finding it to be a bit too much intensity and it was becoming a bit exhausting. Still very impressive. I found I was not interested in the human drama built into the story. I don't know why the dubbed English parts were so odd. There is a lot of dialogue you have to read subtitles for that is going quickly but there is so much action you end up missing something no matter where you look. Overall this movie is a wild ride but just started to feel like too much of a good thing if that makes sense.

Earth 2 has no ridiculous young man to do stupid things like in Earth 1, characters do the best to solve problems. Performers did their best in characterizing, and the story makes the Wandering Earth Project more reasonable. But personally, it has some cons:

1. Obvious post dubbing. Many characters talk in different mouth shapes, especially the black boy like he was talkin English but pronounced the others. These scenes quite disturb the watching.

2. The data and the effects of Earth Engines seems not right. It's not spoilers but if you started Earth suddenly you should have massive earthquakes, huge tsunamis and weather disasters... Oh I'm going to spoil so I have to shut now. Hope you've watched Earth1.

3. You got VR tec android but you ummmm why don't you guys create more operating bots? Oop I didn't spoil I'm talking about the trailers.

Still, I will give 7.5/10 for this movie. Hope they can fix cons and do well in the next. This gonna be a great series.

It's a catastrophical & sci-fic film with a novel epic narrative. The Wandering Earth 2 is more about the values of a community of shared future that unites all mankind. The special effects, needless to say, were a huge improvement over the first film, and the plot filled in the first film's shortcomings. At the same time, as the second of the series, it did not regress like most movies, but made obvious progress,. The overall score is 9 points, looking forward to the third part to bring us a better story.

There are three lines in the movie which build a wonderful construction. I promise it deserves one ticket.

By the way, it's a prequel. However,it doesn't matter to me.

This one is better than the first movie, which is very rare these days. The story lines are great. Although there are some plots that do not make a lot sense, it doesn't affect the overall rating at all. It doesn't make me feel it's a 3hr movie at all. This is actually the best Si-Fi movie I have watched in the last 3 years (and I've watched a lot lol) and I think it's fair to say it's better than 70% of the Hollywood Si-Fi movies these days.

I'm looking forward to the third one now given there are some flash forward scenes hinting at the next story line. Also, don't miss the credits at the end. I left early and have to read up on the end credit scenes online afterwards.