After Earth Movie Reviews

You’ve got to hand it to M Night Shyamalan — he doesn’t give up easily. The failure of his last film (The Last Airbender, 2010) hasn’t deterred the once-promising director from having a bash at a sci-fi spectacle. Not quite the embarrassment one was led to expect, After Earth makes for a fleeting diversion. However, audiences craving for a little more substance and emotional depth are likely to be disappointed. If the film isn’t entirely dismissible

For fans of Shyamalan and the Smiths. Critics have called this movie everything from slow and boring to charmless.  To be fair, it is a slow......

Will Smith is known to do films with a bang - grand movies of sweeping scale where he is the focal point of attention. Not so in this one. Here, he takes the back seat and hands Jaden the baton (obvious metaphors abound; he gives the kid his own saber at the commencement of the quest) to be the main man. The film is set hundreds of years into the future, where mankind has been evacuated from Earth; a planet now inhabited by human-eating nasties

A father-son encounter session tricked out with science-fiction cliches and steeped in motivational uplift, After Earth opens with a teenager, Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith), washing out from some kind of ranger academy. It’s a bummer because all he wants to do is please his father (Will Smith, Jaden’s father), a heroic if unfortunately named general, Cypher. Daddy Dearest has risen having honed tremendous self-control and a useful protective technique

Fear is the constant emotion through the 100-minute run of Will Smith’s idea of a father-son story set against the backdrop of an apocalyptic world. But it is a different sort of fear. A fear that rises from knowing that one of Hollywood’s biggest names has conceptualised this project and is working with a director who has strayed away from his style of film making over the last few years. Nonetheless, the biggest apprehension lies

Clearly intended as a vanity project to showcase his 14-year-old son Jaden's action-hero skills, 'After Earth', conceived and produced by Will Smith, is part-sci-fi, part cautionary tale, yet always a snooze-fest. It doesn't help that director M Night Shyamalan, far out of his comfort zone of twisty thrillers, sucks the film dry of any potential for humor, and delivers what is probably Will Smith's only film in which he never cracks a smile.

The tag line of director M Night Shyamalan’s latest venture After Earth reads: ‘Danger is real, Fear is a choice.’ Little do the unsuspecting viewers know that it is, in fact, a warning about the film itself, for one needs courage to sit through this post-apocalyptic action fare. After delivering a string of bad films like The Village, Lady In The Water and The Happening over the past few years, Shyamalan's last film (as a director) The Last Airbender