Rating of
2/4
After Earth
lastonetoleave - wrote on 06/03/13
After Earth (2013) PG-13 Due to some cataclysmic events, Earth was abandoned over 1000 years ago. Cypher Raige (Will Smith) leads a crew on a training mission, when he and his son, Kitai (Jaden Smith), are the sole survivors of a crash landing. The planet they land on is Earth, and now father and son must team up to survive a world populated by dangerous, wild animals. Let me first say that the CGI (the computerized special effects) in this film are horrible. I felt like I was back in the 1970’s watching the TV show, Land of the Lost. Know going into this film that it’s Jaden Smith’s movie. He does all the action work while Will is stuck in the crashed space ship. Jaden has shown, in the past (The Karate Kid), that he can carry the film, but in this one, he doesn’t quite connect with the audience as his character does a lot of freaking out. The storyline is weak, and there are plot holes that an asteroid could fly through. Both father and son use weird accents in the film, and it takes about 10 minutes before you get comfortable and are able to understand what hey are saying. The film is very predictable, and you can see the ending coming from a mile away. The film was directed by M. Night Shyamalan, whose track record has not been very good lately (see The Last Airbender, on second thought don’t’), so it’s not a good thing when, at the end you say, “Well it’s not as bad as…”. My Rating: Cable
