Hey what's up, guys? The Explanation pro is here. Today I'll explain a drama sci-fi movie,
RESTART THE EARTH. Spoilers incoming. The movie begins with a child,
Yuanyuan distressingly calling out for her parents as people pass her by. The world is in chaos!
Trees and undergrowth stretching and enlarge at an alarming rate destroying major cities around the
globe. The plants have come to life, not that it was dead before but it evolves rapidly. It becomes
like a sentient being and begins attacking not only humans but all kinds of animal life forms
as well. Cities, rural and urban areas are left in ruins and the atmosphere is no longer stable.
Some plants have grown so enormous that it exceeds the stratosphere. Heck, calling
enormous is an understatement. A year later plants have occupied more
than eighty percent of the landmass which causes a huge threat to civilization.
At the present, Yang Hao goes after her daughter Yuanyuan as she hallucinates on seeing her puppy.
Yang Hao shouts to his daughter that her dog is long dead but her daughter ignores him. Who can
blame the child when she sees the puppy right in front of her as bright as day? Anyhow, the puppy
runs off and the naïve child follows after it. Yang Hao catches up and as he feared a
predatory plant is present. The carnivorous plant pulses like a heart and has snake-like
tentacles that catch its prey. Yang Hao grabs his daughter then runs in the opposite direction.
The tentacles stop their pursuit when it was hit by sunlight. A typical vampiric snake plant on a
typical day during the plant apocalypse. Yang Hao was able to escape and retreat
to his safe house. He turns on the UV lights around the house to keep any meat-eating plant
away. He turns on the radio and tries different frequencies hoping to get a hold of someone.
Deep into the night, Yang Hao and his daughter are fast asleep. While asleep,
he dreams of the past. He and his wife were stuck in traffic with Yuanyuan at the back.
Yang Hao’s wife is a scientist that has a project to help solve desertification. Then, a crowd of
people is going in the opposite direction. As if running from something horrific. At the same time,
the wife gets a call from a colleague stating that the vitality index of the plants has increased
significantly and is out of control. Yang Hao gets out of the car to check the situation
and sees a plant growing fast from afar. Yuanyuan screams for help wakes Yang Hao. The protective
father runs to his daughter’s aid. When he opens the curtain, he sees the plant made a whole from
the floor below and takes Yuanyuan. Not wasting any time, he quickly grabs his bag and tracks
his daughter at the building ruin. Yuanyuan was able to fend off the ferocious vines using a UV
flashlight just in time for her dad to arrive. The quick-thinking Yang Hao slashes the wood-covered
window using his kukri to expose the room to the sun. This made the damned herbage back off but
it knocks out Yang Hao at the same time. As Yang Hao was being dragged by the vine,
Li Mo runs to the rescue, cutting off the clinging plant using calculated moves and a Chinese short
sword. She then calls for back-up and a team of professionally uniformed and armed men makes their
entrance. Some of the guys were firing at the plant using guns. Guns versus plants don’t seem
practical but it works. But guns weren’t the only weapon in their arsenal. The leader of the group
signals at another soldier, Gui and he immediately changes to his secondary weapon of choice,
a freaking flamethrower. Gui targets the vines and activates his weapon of plant destruction, it
wasn’t enough. The plants only withdraw when a larger UV machine was activated by 21, an obese
soldier that’s part of the rescue crew. After the commotion, Yang Hao gave thanks to
his rescuers. If it wasn’t for the squad, he would be planting fertilizer. They introduce
themselves as an operating team of the joint forces. Seems legit, they have the skills to
match the rugged look. To break the tension, 21 the fatso IT guy of the squad eats an egg raw.
That’s one way to eat a snack. The third command center of the joint forces
radios the operating team. Fang Yong reports that the transport case containing the agentia
was damaged and it leaked. This compromised the mission and so, Fang Yong decided to go with Plan
B which is to go to the nearest P4 lab and secure another agentia. This led to the encounter of the
ragtag squad, Yang Hao, and his daughter. 21 explains the situation to Yang Hao. The
central academy of sciences has been monitoring the plants and it has formed a huge root network
10.3 kilometers underground. Giving them a hint of a second Global Tide Storm. Once it breaks
out approximately ninety-three percent of current survivors on the whole planet will meet its doom
and the squad has less than 54 hours to stop it. The only means of stopping it is by launching the
N-11 maleic hydrazide agentia or agentia in short. it's like a sedative for plants. A permanent
one. The plan is to launch the agentia in all 47 launch sites. It won't work if it fails in one of
the stations and so to guarantee success three alternate teams are working on each station, a
total of 141 teams working globally. A contingency plan for a failed contingency plan, planception.
Afterward, they continue with their mission. An encounter with a large snake-like vine
killed Lei and so, Yang Hao was asked to replace their fallen comrade. Yang Hao understands
mechanical power well and the leader deemed him qualified. He only has the safety of his
daughter in mind and declines the request. This made Old ghost extremely angry. He got heated
at the thought of his comrade sacrificing himself to save Yuanyuan and his father,
at the thought that his being selfish for not accompanying them for a greater cost and,
at the thought that they will have a hard time without an engineer. Yuanyuan on the other hand
inherits the fighting spirit of her late mother, she convinces her dad to change his mind. The team
of eight including Yuanyuan journeys on. Then, a warning goes off. 21 monitors his
gadget and it indicates that there’s a large biological activity. The earth below their
feet cracks and some building ruins start shaking sideways while others are falling.
The party runs for their lives as they see the green tide from a distance. A green tide is
basically a fast pace avalanche of deadly shrubs and earth. Back to the killer tide, the guys are
running like hell. The leader asks their tech guy, 21 for directions and he signals to go straight
since there’s no obstruction. Rookie mistake, he was looking at an upside-down screen. In reality,
the path ahead was a dead end. Having no choice, they decide to run towards a run-down bus.
Stone stumbles while the ground splits. He throws the agentia to Ye Yan knowing that he wouldn’t
make it. He was always trying to impress Ye Yan before the green tide and even in his last moment
after throwing the agentia to Ye Yan, he smiled and stayed cool before being crushed to death by
a large root. Maybe he doesn’t want that Ye Yan’s last memory of him was screaming for help.
Li Mo pulls Ye Yan to the bus where all the guys are buckled up. 21 had a hard time
buckling his seatbelt due to his big, well, fat stomach. The green tide catches up! Fortunately,
the bus was riding the deadly vegetation tide like a surfboard on a semi-rough wave.
As the bus was about to reach a cliff and the green tide to finish in that area, it plunges into
a building. As they move out of the bus, the team mourns the death of Stone. He was like a brother
to many and a would-be lover to Ye Yan. The mission goes on but takes another life
later. As the group crosses an improvised bridge, Yuanyuan falls due to the shaking caused by the
green tide. The leader was able to catch her but the rope couldn’t carry both of their weight.
Yuanyuan reminded the leader of his daughter, the two look alike. Having a soft spot for Yuanyuan,
he sacrifices himself to save Yuanyuan by cutting off the rope. A true leader, hero and, martyr.
Later on, a global broadcast from the High command of the Joint command center. The Central Academy
of Sciences discovered a symbiotic relationship between the root network of underground plants
and microbes, building a protective barrier on the periphery, while local green tides were induced in
various places. Even if the large-scale rollout is successful. It would be tough to break through
the barrier, and it would be useless. The High command opted to cancel the major launch operation
after a vote. This frustrates many of the teams that are part of the operation around the world.
They have tried to study alternatives that might be of beaming hope for the operation
but none is likely to work. Hence, they have to surrender the operation and escape to the sea.
When everybody lost hope, Yang Hao addresses everybody listening to the broadcast.
He gave a speech that encourages everyone to at least try and hope for success.
This gave hope to the Joint Command and many of the teams including the one he is on
voluntarily proceeded with the mission knowing that there’s a .03 percent chance of success. If
you think about it, they have lost members of the team and got nothing more to lose. Might as well
die trying than await an inevitable death. The teams set off, this time with a glimmer of
hope. It even made Old Ghost, a member of Lo Mi’s team to be friendly with Yang Hao.
They continue to traverse rough terrain and eventually reach the D-16 launch station.
At the D-16 gate, 21 opens the gate through his wrist computer. Lo Mi commands 21 to
debug the computer and proceed with the launch sequence. Another problem arises, power failure.
They can’t connect to the control systems without power. Good thing they have Yang Hao,
he’s like the lucky charm of the team. He was able to turn the power on but there’s a catch.
Always a catch in this troubled world. They can still proceed with the launch but the defense
system is damaged. Once the green tide breaks out and the plants go inside, they will all die.
Speak of the devil, what 21 said came true. A green tide is inbound and they
have no time left. Without hesitation, the team prepares the launch sequence.
Old ghost opens the container and puts the agentia in a metallic contraption. Subsequently,
other launch stations have already finished injecting the agentia. The big rocket-like machine
outside goes live and commences countdown. The rocket machine launches downward digs deep
into the earth. Lo Mi and the others watch from the monitoring screen from the site. Just like
what the High command predicted earlier, the agentia is being blocked by the thick roots.
At the ocean, the Navy is using nuclear submarines to penetrate the weakest layer of the seabed.
A submarine crew loads the torpedoes into a chamber and the commander presses a button to
fire them. The powerful torpedoes hit the seabed and causes an underwater explosion
that ripples to the surface. Despite everything that was launched, it wasn’t enough destructive
power. The underground root system was affected but didn’t break the tough plant barrier.
Yang Hao has another idea. Given that the station they’re in is powered by the geothermal energy of
a volcano beneath them and that the magma is unstable due to the moving large plants they
will use the volcano against the flora. It’s a brilliant idea using mother nature against itself.
21 prepares it but another dilemma, they can’t control the maintenance systems remotely
and so the crew proceeds to manually set it off using a bomb.
Upon reaching the designated floor they are greeted by lovely and lively killer vines.
While fending it off, Old Ghost was killed in the process.
The movie ends with Yang Hao holding the C4 bomb. He was always calculating his every move from the
start. He thought with the nine minutes set on the bomb, both of them would make it and so,
he locks himself leaving Lo Mi on the other side of the gate. Leaving Yuanyuan in Lo
Mi’s care. The ultimate sacrifice saving the planet and countless lives.
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