After Earth

3.00
    After Earth
    2013

    Synopsis

    One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai. When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai's craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon. His whole life, Kitai has wanted nothing more than to be a soldier like his father. Today, he gets his chance.

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    Cast

    • Jaden SmithKitai Raige
    • Will SmithCypher Raige
    • Sophie OkonedoFaia Raige
    • Zoë KravitzSenshi Raige
    • Glenn MorshowerCommander Velan
    • Kristofer HivjuSecurity Chief
    • Sacha DhawanHesper Pilot
    • Chris GeereHesper Navigator
    • Diego KlattenhoffVeteran Ranger
    • David DenmanPrivate McQuarrie

    Recommendations

    • 58

      The A.V. Club

      Shyamalan’s sensibility may not be enough to turn After Earth into a great (or even very good) film, but it does yield interesting — and at times strikingly realized — results.
    • 50

      The Playlist

      The film progresses to the point where it feels less like father and son, and more like a young boy listening to an inspirational audiobook.
    • 40

      Austin Chronicle

      The film is repetitive and not as suspenseful at it tries to be. Often gorgeous, sometimes fascinating, it is ultimately unwieldy and unsurprising. It fails as a Smith-family project. Jaden Smith, who was fine in "The Karate Kid," is flat here.
    • 40

      The Hollywood Reporter

      The disappointingly generic film, which strands a father and son on Earth a thousand years after a planet-wide evacuation, will leave genre audiences pining for the more Terra-centric conceits of "Oblivion," not to mention countless other future-set films that find novelty in making familiar surroundings threatening.
    • 30

      Variety

      Shyamalan is clearly a director-for-hire here, his disinterest palpable from first frame to last. Nowhere in evidence is the gifted "Sixth Sense" director who once brought intricately crafted setpieces and cinematic sleight-of-hand to even the least of his own movies.
    • 30

      Village Voice

      Jaden is fine at running, jumping, fearful trembling, and affecting steely resolution. He doesn't yet have his father's charisma; perhaps to help him out, dad opted not to bring that charisma to the set.
    • 25

      New York Post

      Basically, this is Smith and his real-life son, Jaden (both affecting ridiculous mid-Atlantic accents) talking the audience to death for something like 90 minutes before the closing credits.
    • 25

      San Francisco Chronicle

      Jaden is not ready for his solo spotlight, and the film is the same action over and over. Another bad movie from Shyamalan.

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