A super-species of triffid-style sentient flora terrorises humanity in a schlocky blockbuster
No doubt to Alan Titchmarsh’s great relief, the horticultural arm of the post-apocalypse flick is finally entering the growth phase, with the likes of Annihilation, The Last of Us and now this lightweight effort from Chinese director Lin Zhenzhao. The hubris here is that mankind has overcompensated for the desertification of the planet with cutting-edge research to promote plant growth, accidentally creating a super-species of sentient flora that has choked the Earth, and whose roving vines hunt down people to snack on.
Yang Hao (Mickey He) is a bunkered-in dad skulking in the ruins with daughter Yuanyuan (Zhang Mingcan), fending off the triffids with Uv light torches. His wife, one of the researchers responsible, has already become fertiliser, and he’s frantic when Yuanyuan is plucked from her bed by the creepers. But after rescuing her, they...
No doubt to Alan Titchmarsh’s great relief, the horticultural arm of the post-apocalypse flick is finally entering the growth phase, with the likes of Annihilation, The Last of Us and now this lightweight effort from Chinese director Lin Zhenzhao. The hubris here is that mankind has overcompensated for the desertification of the planet with cutting-edge research to promote plant growth, accidentally creating a super-species of sentient flora that has choked the Earth, and whose roving vines hunt down people to snack on.
Yang Hao (Mickey He) is a bunkered-in dad skulking in the ruins with daughter Yuanyuan (Zhang Mingcan), fending off the triffids with Uv light torches. His wife, one of the researchers responsible, has already become fertiliser, and he’s frantic when Yuanyuan is plucked from her bed by the creepers. But after rescuing her, they...
- 5/16/2023
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
ITN Distribution has debuted a trailer for the epic Chinese disaster flick Restart the Earth where sentient plants take over life as we know it!
Synopsis:
To fight desertification, human beings develop special drugs to promote the reproduction of plant cells. In the process they accidentally awaken the plants' intelligence, soon creating a global green tide which threatens to end human life on Earth.
The Chinese disaster film stars Mickey He, Mi Luo, Michelle Ye, Li Ning, Li Ruoxi, Ye Xinyu and Huang Kai-Lun and is directd by Zhenzhao Lin.
Check out the epic trailer below:...
Synopsis:
To fight desertification, human beings develop special drugs to promote the reproduction of plant cells. In the process they accidentally awaken the plants' intelligence, soon creating a global green tide which threatens to end human life on Earth.
The Chinese disaster film stars Mickey He, Mi Luo, Michelle Ye, Li Ning, Li Ruoxi, Ye Xinyu and Huang Kai-Lun and is directd by Zhenzhao Lin.
Check out the epic trailer below:...
- 3/11/2022
- QuietEarth.us
Angry sentient plants turn against humanity! Whoa! What a cool concept. ITN Distribution has debuted a new international trailer a for Chinese epic sci-fi survival movie called Restart the Earth. Following the immense success of China's Wandering Earth, it seems their epic disaster movie industry is getting bigger and churning out more projects year after year. When a drug to replicate plant cells creates a sentient form of a flower, the planet is over taken by flora and humankind is wiped out. A Chinese task force, a widowed father and his young daughter fight to survive in a mission to inject an antidote to the core of the plants to reverse their growth. They must "restart the Earth." This is totally a movie Hollywood would've made in the 90s, but now China is making all of these movies nowadays. As long as they're a hit in China, that's all that matters!
- 3/8/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Mickey Rourke says he doesn't care that Manny Pacquiao's camp won't hook him up with free fight tickets -- 'cause he doesn't wanna go anyway!!!! Anyone buyin' that? As we previously reported, Pac's promoter Bob Arum told Mickey he'd have to buy "his own damn tickets" if he wanted to be ringside ... even though he and Manny train at the same L.A. boxing gym. But when we got Mickey out yesterday, not...
- 4/3/2015
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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