Or, if space aliens see we love our children they won’t kill us. Keanu Reeves comes to destroy the earth because humans are ruining it. Naturally (because that is how these movies always go), the government over reacts and tries to kill him, which doesn’t help the case for the survival of human kind. Reeves meets a good doctor who takes care of a her late husband’s son, a boy who is still traumatized by his death in Iraq. Through a couple hours of chase and dialog, Reeves realizes that humans are almost unredeemable, but when he sees the doctor holding the boy who hates her as metallic swarm comes to destroy them he decides human kind is worth saving. Then he leaves the earth because humans have learned their lesson and will behave.

The weakness of the film makes one wish for the moral complexity of the original.