LINK: Is “After Earth” a Scientology sales pitch? Since Shyamalan’s last film was the insipid “Last Airbender,” perhaps that’s the standard to judge it by - an undemanding, childish adventure picture for kids starring kids whose parents happen to be show business folk. Focusing on him, the movie feels a lot more “Karate Kid” than Will Smith action picture. But there’s little here to separate him from a hundred peers who could have played this role as well, if not as prettily.
The digitally augmented scenery is striking and a couple of the action beats work. And inexplicably, father and son have attempted Southern accents from over a thousand years in the future. Jaden, a good looking kid with a hint of charisma, has to carry the film and doesn’t have the presence to pull that off. Zoe Kravitz - yes, she was born into the business, too - plays the boy’s sister.Ī Will Smith action film that has him, grimacing on his back, giving instructions, is nobody’s idea of a lot of fun. Sophie Okonedo plays the mom who insisted her would-be Ranger boy go off with legendary Ranger dad for bonding and adventure. But in odd moments, father and son hallucinate the layers of their strained relationship, the incident that scarred Kitai for life and that he fears his father blames him for. Most of Dad’s lectures are about controlling and mastering fear. The oxygen is thin, the hot days yield to frigid nights that could kill him.Īnd every step of the way, Dad is sitting in front of holographic monitors, slowly bleeding out, “teaching” and leading his son every step of the way. It’s on the loose, too, tracking Kitai’s “fear.” There are rivers to cross and and waterfalls and high cliffs he must fly from. A digital monster named Ursa was being transported in the space ship. There are beasts in the primeval forest Kitai must cross - ferocious digital baboons and digitized tigers and killer digital condors. The buffalo and trees and vast migrating flocks of birds are back. This is Earth, a thousand years after we’ve abandoned it.
It’s a straightforward quest in which incapacitated Dad (Will) sends guilt-ridden, fearful teen son Kitai (Jaden) off to fetch a rescue beacon that broke free of the spaceship they just crashed in. Night Shyamalan picture without his trademark surprises and twists. This sci-fi adventure about a boy who must become a man to save himself and his wounded warrior father on a hostile world is a corny, generally humorless M. But since buying your kid a movie credit is a tradition that dates back to the beginnings of Hollywood, you can’t hold that against it. Thank you, I hope I helped you make a decision.Truth be told, “After Earth” wouldn’t exist had Will Smith not cooked it up as yet another star vehicle for his son, Jaden. It was a great movie, if you are ok for a chill but not a horror movie. A character says, "This sucks." There is a use of dumb. Although it sounds very violent, when you see, it won't feel that way for some reason. The alien sticks a blade through her back. In a flashback a character's sister is killed by alien. In the end, a character slays an alien, graphically. Tigers fall from a cliff, you can hear them roar in pain. You see dead baby eagles, bodies seeable. A character breaks his leg and is unable to walk. A character briefly cuts an aliens head off, purple blood coming from it. A startling hole rips in a ship, everyone except for two were killed. You see a pile of dead gorrilas, corpses and limbs and blood splattered bodies seeable. Humans are hung with their dead body seeable. It was not a long movie (around 2 hours including previews) and had nothing too "iffy." Now, there were some disturbing scenes. It was a great movie with a positive message of overcoming fear and being an independent person. I actually saw After Earth yesterday, its opening day. Which Side of History? How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives.Cómo saber si una aplicación o sitio web son realmente educativos.