If you’ve seen enough action and sci-fi movies, phrases like “routine” and “captured alien creature” should send up immediate red flags.
In part trying to bond with his son, and in part to placate his wife ( Sophie Okonedo), Kitai decides to take his son on a routine space run transporting troops and a captured Ursa to another settlement light-years away.
REVIEWS OF AFTER EARTH MOVIE MOVIE
Instead of twists or late reveals After Earth relies on drama, action, and ramped-up tension to play out a predictable story.Īfter racing through setting up this version of the future, the destruction of Earth, the settlement across the galaxy, and humanity’s battle with generic movie monster aliens known as Ursas (creatures who can smell and track fear of their prey across great distances), our story begins in earnest with General Cypher Raige (Will Smith) arriving home from his latest assignment to his talented but skittish son Katai (Jaden Smith) who on that very day has been denied advancement in the Ranger Corps for his inability to show calm in the face of danger.
Part coming of age story, part father/son dynamic, part horror film, and part shaky science fiction, After Earth proves to be the most straightforward movie of Shyamalan’s career. Night Shyamalan stars Will Smith and Jaden Smith as an estranged father and son in the far future who crash-land on a post-apocalyptic version of an abandoned Earth and must work together to survive. Based on an idea from one of the film’s stars, the latest from director M.
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