Today, the genre of youth adventure films is experiencing a real rise. But among the whole variety of paintings of this kind, not so often there are really interesting, kind and high-quality films.
The Earth of the Future refers to such (film, 2015). Actors who starred in the cast fit very well in their images, demonstrating an excellent acting. However, acting alone is not enough for the film to pay off at the box office.
Plot
Casey teenage girl becomes a participant in unforgettable events and adventures, full of dangers and new experiences. By the will of fate, she turns out to be a mysterious and unknown object that someone is obviously hunting for.
To find out the riddle of this subject and get answers to questions, she is forced to work together with Frank, a brilliant inventor who has a very nasty character and a cynical approach to solving problems.
The film "Land of the Future" gives the viewer the spirit of adventure, fiction and pleasant emotions. This is a good and kind film, where there is a lot of action, a beautiful picture and interesting characters. Recently, teenage cinema has become more cruel, bloody and aggressive, and this picture is completely different. Perhaps for this reason, the film was not able to become the blockbuster of the year.
"Land of the Future" (film, 2015): actors and roles
The film involves many interesting and promising actors. The main character (Casey) is performed by actress Britt Robertson, whose career is now starting to gain momentum.
The role of Athena, a robot girl from the future, is played by Raffy Cassidy, who is also a very promising young actress. Thomas Robinson (Frank Walker as a child) is still a very young, but very talented actor.
Also in the film "Land of the Future" not only young actors are involved, there are already eminent, real mastodons of the film business. These, of course, include George Clooney (Frank) and Hugh Laurie (Knicks). Each of them has dozens of different paintings, so it is not surprising that Clooney’s fee was as much as $ 25 million with a total budget of 190 million.
"Earth of the future" (film, 2015): reviews
The film was released in world distribution in May 2015. Despite the impressive budget, good cast and decent special effects, the picture was rather cool received by the public.
If in Russia the ratings of the film can still be called satisfactory, then in the West, critics routed it completely. Professionals noted the weak development of the script, the insufficient disclosure of the characters' characters, the naive and banal plot, as well as numerous plot “holes” and the lack of sound logic as minuses.
Amateur viewers took the picture a little softer. Among their reviews, a considerable number and positive. However, if you look at the reviews and reviews, it becomes clear why commercial success has bypassed the "Land of the Future". The film (2015), whose actors coped with the roles very well, was ruined primarily due to the poor plot.
Box office
As mentioned above, the budget of the film was 190 million US dollars, which is quite a lot. To repel such investments is not easy. Despite the fact that the film was not the worst and even the most severe critics note that in general the tape is quite watchable, from the commercial side the film was not very successful. "Land of the Future", whose actors received good fees, managed to raise just $ 209 million at the global box office.
Given the marketing investment, we can say that the film hardly justified the money spent on it. It is worth noting that in the United States the picture raised about $ 93 million, and in the Russian Federation about 7.3. If it were not for the big stream of negativity in reviews and reviews of critics, bloggers and other media personalities, then, most likely, the film would have managed to get a plus due to fees from rental in movie theaters.
Interesting Facts
A lot of interesting facts are connected with the "Land of the Future" (film, 2015) and the actors of the tape. One of them can be called with certainty that some of the scenes of the film were shot on a real NASA launch pad, located in the state of Florina, on Cape Canaveral.
It is interesting that the director of the film, Brad Bird, refused to work on the movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens for the filming of this picture.
During the distribution of the film in Europe, the organizers were forced to rename their work on Disney Project T, as the name Tomorrowland belongs to the regular electronic music festival.
In one of the episodes of the tape, where the action took place in the movie "Explosion from the Past", on the shelves you can see the toy figures of the cartoon characters "Steel Giant" and "The Incredibles". This is symbolic since both animated works were created by Brad Bird.
Conclusion
“Land of the Future” is a film (2015), the actors of which and the entire film crew sought to make a good and kind teenage project, where there will be a lot of science fiction, adventure and action, but the result was slightly worse than I wanted.
In general, the film can not be called bad or failure, as can be seen from the audience reviews. Many liked the picture, but something she still lacks. It is not entirely clear why Western film critics attacked the film so much, but their opinion greatly affected the success of the film at the box office.
In Russia, the film has a pretty good rating. On the main resource about cinema in Runet "Kinopoisk" the tape has a rating of more than six points out of ten, which, of course, is not the highest indicator, but it can not be called low either. About three quarters of reviews and reviews about the film in our country are positive.