Wandering Earth Collection

Wu Jing

Andy Lau

Li Xuejian

Sha Yi

Ning Li

Wang Zhi

Zhu Yanmanzi

Andy Friend

Wang Ruoxi

Tong Liya

Vatilli Makarychev

Zhang Yi

Kawawa Kadichi

Clara Lee

Vladimir Ershov

Tony Nicholson

Hu Xianxu

Huo Qing

Liu Yin

Guo Yiqian

Wu Enxuan

Wang Hongwei

Kong Dashan

Eric Xu

Liu Jiayun

Ding Yanlai

Gao Ang

Andrew Yan Hua

Li Ren

Ang Cin

Wang Lei

Roy Wang

Yang Hongtao

Zhao Yesuo

Li Luqi

Huang Jiyuan

Zheng Chuyi

Wu Jingyi

Fu Jiahao

Valentin Vorobev

Li Yiran

Zhou Qiang

Zhu Chaoyi

He Jinhelong

He Jinhejin

Daniela Tassy

Li Peidong

Frant Gwo

Hannah Kittell

Jeanna Canatsey

James Gott

Joanna Carpenter

Catherine Gubernick

Tim Gilligan

Tomasz Gryz

Achille Vanderhaeghen

Diego Quecano

Marco Wuest

Gong Geer

Hanrui Wang

Fredrik Yderström

Han Cao

Ashleigh Awusie

Sunny Vinsavich

Govinda Angulo

Josh Reyes

Geoffrey Jean-Baptiste

Chloe Locarro

Dominick Pietrzak

Dash Porter

Jake Loff

Anna Maues

Liu Cixin

Li Jie

Roc Chen

Luca Liang

Lu Jia

Wang Yibing

Yaping Li

Liu Kailuo

Wang Hong

Wu Xian

Wang Danrong

Ye Ruchang

Yang Zhixue

Zhu Yanfeng

Fu Ruoqing

Wang Ke

Wang Zhonglei

Wayne Chang

Xiangjin Yin

Albert Yeung

Ye Xiang

Rao Xiaozhi

Binxing Fu

Cheung Ka-Fai

Meng Jun

Allen Wei

Science Fiction

Action

Adventure

流浪地球2

China Film Group Corporation

Guo Fan Culture and Media

G!Film Studio

DF Pictures

China

CinemaSerf

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.