I loved Gort; he was a great robot, but the movie was slow moving. It was also too preachy-trying to “teach us a better way”, and espoused moral equivilance between the U.S. and the Communists. I imaging Reeves’ character will attempt to teach us war mongers not to “bicker” with Moslems.
I loved the movie. It was my all-time favorite SF movie. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of viewing the extras on the DVD - I think they were originally made for the laser disc release.
Among the extras was an interview with the producer, Julian Blaustein (1913-1995). He said that the message of the film was that the US should surrender some of its sovereignty to the UN. He thought the US was being mean to Russia at that time. The movie was made in 1951 and Stalin was still running the show.
Maybe we’ll get to see Keanu Reeves fight the aliens matrix-style. < :D