His whole life, Kitai has wanted nothing more than to be a soldier like his father. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon.
When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai’s craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. 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. On a positive note though, the film does have some visually impressive scenes - the hide-and-seek game between Kitai and the alien creatures, the baboon chase and the climax fight between Kitai and Urusa - but they are too few and few far between to save the film.Īfter Earth is a boring film with too many flaws.After Earth‘s plot synopsis: “One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity’s escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind’s new home. Smith Sr too seems disinterested, arguably making this his worst role in the last decade. He delivers his dialogues ina fake accent, his listlessness only harms the performance. Unfortunately, Smith Jr appears to have lost both the charisma and acting ability he displayed in The Karate Kid remake (2010) and The Pursuit of Happyness (2006). Smith Sr co-wrote, who wrote the story and is also the co-producer of the film, provides a good platform fo rhis son to prove his mettle. While one expects some amazing action sequences and an edge-of-the-seat thriller, all you get is an amateur story will a mild Avatar hangover. With Cypher lying injured in the spaceship, Kitai sets out alone to get their distress beacon and fight some creatures that have evolved to kill humans. The accident kills everyone excpet Cypher and Kitai. His wife suggests that he take along their son so that they can bond.īut something goes horribly wrong during their journey and the spaceship is severely damaged in an asteroid belt t and they crash-land on Earth. Funny enough, Cypher is entirely odour-free which makes it easy for him to kill the Ursas by stabbing them with his high tech weapon.Įnter Kitai (Jaden Smith), Cypher’s young son, who desperately wants to be a part of the Ranger Corps team in order to avenge his older sister Senshi's (Zoe Kravitz) death, but is afraidĬypher decides to go on one last voyage before he hangs up his boots for retirement. The year is 1000 A.E - over a thousand years after humankind has abandoned earth.Ĭypher is the head of a military unit called the Ranger Corps, whose job is to find and kill Ursas - monstrous alien creatures that are blind but can smell fear. The reason could be screenplay writer Gary Whitta, who was earlier an editor of a gaming magazine. Riddled with bad CGI (computer-generated images), clichéd storyline and feeble characterisation, the movie gives out the vibe of a video game. Instead, he followed it up with After Earth. 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.Īfter 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 was probably his worst film and one expected him to learn from it. The tag line of director M Night Shyamalan’s latest venture After Earth reads: ‘Danger is real, Fear is a choice.’ Watching After Earth isn't exactly a memory you'd like to cherish, writes Sonil Dedhia.
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