Race to Witch Mountain is actually a re-imagining of the 1975 film Escape to Witch Mountain(no wonder the name sounds kinda 'fishy' for me...). Jack Bruno (Dwayne Johnson and yes, did you smell what The Rock is cooking?) is a cab driver in Las Vegas, who is picking up and dropping off passengers to the UFO convention at the Planet Hollywood Casino and Hotel. One of his passengers is Dr. Alex Friedman (Carla Gugino), a failed scientist who is giving speeches about legitimate scientific theories of UFOs and outer space.
The next day Bruno is approached by two large men telling him that Wolff would like to see him. After fighting them, Bruno drives off, later noticing two children, Sara (AnnaSophia Robb) and Seth (Alexander Ludwig) sitting in the back seat of the cab. They tell him they need to go to a certain destination and are willing to pay all they have ($15,000) to get there. They lead him to a run down house in the middle of nowhere. Meanwhile, Major Henry Burke (Ciaran Hinds) is searching for information on the two aliens that landed some days earlier.
When they arrive at the house, the children tell Bruno that they will be re-united with their relatives soon. Before leaving Bruno hears a crash coming from the house. He is startled to find them hiding behind a couch. Though grateful for his concern, the children tell him they must continue their journey without him, as they can trust no one. Nevertheless, Bruno decides to follow them, which leads him to the basement of the house. There the kids are pursued and attacked by a strange creature as they retrieve an object in a plant. They manage to escape this creature, a creature "Siphon" which built to destroy a certain target.
Dwayne Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb and Alexander Ludwig.
The funny part is, there are stars from the original 1975 movie, Disney's Escape to Witch Mountain—Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann—have small roles in this new movie. Kim originally played Tia and Ike played Tony in the first movie. In Race to Witch Mountain, Kim is the waitress, Tina, who helps Jack and the kids escape from the restaurant, and Ike (now going by the name Iake Eisenmann) is Sheriff Antony, whom Jack uses to delay the government agents so they can get out of the restaurant without being caught. Another Disney cameo is made by actress Meredith Salenger. She starred in the well-reviewed 1985 Disney movie The Journey of Natty Gann. In a reference to that movie, a female reporter in Race to Witch Mountain is played by Salenger and identifies herself as reporter "Natalie Gann".
On the left, that's Kim Richards acted as Tia in Escape to Witch Mountain and right is a waitress in Race To Witch Mountain.
Ike Eisenmann acted Tony on the left and he acted as Sheriff Antony on the right.
Overall: 8.5/10
Highly recommended movie which I believe most of us will enjoy in the cinema. I'd just watch it in the cinema which I thought it was good but surprisingly my brother don't feel that excited like I do. Anyway, just go watch it.
