Wandering Earth Collection

Andy Lau

Wu Jing

Yi Sha

Zhu Yanmanzi

Li Xuejian

Andy Friend

Wang Zhi

Kawawa Kadichi

Vatilli Makarychev

Clara Lee

Vladimir Ershov

Wang Ruoxi

Ning Li

Zhang Yi

Tong Liya

Guo Yiqian

Wu Enxuan

Ding Yanlai

Gao Ang

Andrew Yan Hua

Huo Qing

Liu Yin

Zheng Chuyi

Yang Hongtao

Wu Jingyi

He Jinhejin

He Jinhelong

Kong Dashan

Hu Xianxu

Valentin Vorobev

Li Luqi

Wang Hongwei

Eric Xu

Roy Wang

Zhu Chaoyi

Zhao Yesuo

Wang Lei

Li Yiran

Zhou Qiang

Fu Jiahao

Huang Jiyuan

Ang Cin

Li Ren

Tony Nicholson

Daniela Tassy

Li Peidong

Liu Jiayun

Frant Gwo

James Gott

Joanna Carpenter

Jeanna Canatsey

Marco Wuest

Sunny Vinsavich

Ashleigh Awusie

Hanrui Wang

Achille Vanderhaeghen

Tomasz Gryz

Govinda Angulo

Gong Geer

Catherine Gubernick

Fredrik Yderström

Han Cao

Hannah Kittell

Diego Quecano

Tim Gilligan

Geoffrey Jean-Baptiste

Jake Loff

Dominick Pietrzak

Dash Porter

Chloe Locarro

Josh Reyes

Anna Maues

Liu Cixin

Li Jie

Roc Chen

Luca Liang

Lu Jia

Wang Yibing

Yaping Li

Liu Kailuo

Ye Ruchang

Yang Zhixue

Zhu Yanfeng

Wu Xian

Wang Hong

Wang Danrong

Fu Ruoqing

Wang Zhonglei

Wayne Chang

Wang Ke

Xiangjin Yin

Albert Yeung

Binxing Fu

Ye Xiang

Rao Xiaozhi

Cheung Ka-Fai

Meng Jun

Science Fiction

流浪地球2

China Film Group Corporation

Guo Fan Culture and Media

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.