In After Earth a crash landing leaves Kitai Raige and his father Cypher stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help.
M. Night Shyamalan is a very capable director, I really enjoy Signs and I find it a very inspiring film and a fun ride. I think that After Earth was not a terrible film but it just does need to be made; the premise is not very interesting and there is a lot of CGI. I hated Shymalan’s The Last Airbender which had terrible CGI and this movie is really big and I don’t think Shymalan was the right person to approach to make this film.
The first 30 minutes of this film are not very eye catching, the CGI looks really cheap and as I pointed out before the premise is not very interesting to make this big movie out of it. It almost had the potential to be this year’s Avatar, but the budget was not all there.
Jaden Smith is the star of the film and he is not a very talented actor. He did a fine job in Karate Kid no matter how mediocre that film was and he is good in it as some parts but the fact that he is Will Smith’s son and they are in a film together takes away the fact that they are both good actors, meaning they are only in the film due to being related.
Will Smith was terribly miss-used, he did not have a very good character to begin with and he mostly talks his son through this adventure which is very slow paced.
I was not on board with the film and Will Smith’s kid gave me no reason whatsoever to keep me intrigued, the ending of this film did not leave me happy with it. Will Smith bugged me and his son was uninteresting.
So overall
“After Earth has enough to keep you in it and not enough
to leave you happy with it and it turns out nothing but mediocre”
6/10 (Fine0
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