Night should forget boys who fight baboons and go back to boys who see dead people. After Earth is neither a spectacular mainstream adventure nor the genre-bender experiment you would expect from Shyamalan. The chemistry the Smiths share has its moments and remains the best bit.īut the film itself is of the sort that aimlessly tries cashing in on sci-fi as a saleable genre (remember Peter Jackson's King Kong?) and routinely slips. Military science fiction is centered on the.
For others, it was popular movies like Pacific Rim or Starship Troopers. For some of us, our introduction to military science fiction was required reading of Ender’s Game in middle school. Kitai must journey the hostile planet to locate and retrieve the ship's tail and a beacon that they need to signal for help back home.Īfter Earth tries mixing Kitai's adventure amid giant baboons, toxic leeches and other such dangerous flora and fauna with a story of father-son bonding. It’s a sub-genre of sci-fi that focuses on weapons technology, battles, and soldiers’ combat experience. The ship crashlands on post-apocalypse Earth and Cypher is critically injured.
Kitai (Jaden) is a budding ranger who joins his dad Cypher (Will Smith), a veteran in the job, on a voyage. As a slice of wisdom on fear and belief, the film is really irrelevant.Ī thousand years after Earth is destroyed, humans live on the planet Nova Prime. As sci-fi, After Earth looks too generic in its content and visuals to stand out. As the film plods through its 100 minutes, you realise these guys don't quite seem sure of what exactly they were out to peddle. Night to pull off a huge hit with this one, labouring as he has been under the burden of recent duds. After Earth teems with sci-fi excess, at the same time reiterating Shyamalan's slant at serving pop philosophy.įor Smith there was the dual job of establishing teenage son Jaden as hot box-office property, besides living up to his own super stardom. Night Shyamalan - the man who was supposed to reinvent Hollywood cinema - is on his most ambitious trip yet.
Our man in Hollywood returns with a new film that stars Will Smith and boasts of a $130 million budget, so we are excited. This is surely how the film, After Earth (opening today), has been marketed, because if they told you who wrote and. Cast: Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Isabelle Fuhrman, Sophie Okonedo
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