After Earth (2013)

You won't be disappointed!

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

NEPOTISM DOESN'T MAKE GOOD MOVIES jaden smith shouldnt be an actor but cuz his daddy is a megalomaniac whose rich he gets choice roles that should go to other people. ones with actual talent

You would think that in the year of After Earth, there would be weapons available unless guns were outlawed by right wing politicians. This movie is the reason why we won't make it After Earth. We need to confiscate Shyamalan's camera and move him to the Village. It's quite possible that Shyamalan was the inspiration for this sad movie, because he most definitely learned to be fearless in Planet Hollywood! Good Night!

Continuing my plan to watch every Will Smith movie in order, I come to After Earth (2013)After returning to our screens with a Men In Black sequel, after a 4 year hiatus, Smith continues what he was doing during the four years, and helps promote one of his kids. Plot In A Paragraph: A crash landing leaves Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) and his father Cypher (Will Smith) stranded on Earth, a millennium after events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help.I forgot how bad this movie was. Even though he is hardly in the movie, Smith must take the lions share of the blame this mess. Which I think is the worst movie in his filmography I have watched this far. It was he who read a magazine piece about a father and son surviving after a plane crash, re-imagined it as a space fantasy, he was a producer, co wrote the story and personally picked the director. This is the wrong movie at the wrong time for M Night Shyamalan. He usually writes, directs and acts in his own movies. After the critical maulings and box office flops of The Village, Lady In The Water, The Happening and The Lady Airbender, this made it 5 misfired in a row,,some would have said he was finished as an A-list filmmaker. Shyamalan didn't originate this project. He rewrote the script based on a story by Smith. So he's a gun-for-hire on After Earth, and rumour has it Smith ghost directed it. While Shyamalan was primarily in charge of the blocking and the visual aspects of the film, it was Smith who personally coached his son Jaden in his performance and dictated the development of the story and the on screen action. Corny, poorly acted (Smith really needs to stop convincing us his son can act. He is awful.) and dull all round, I actually forgot how bad this movie was. After Earth grossed $60 million at the domestic box office, to end the year the 59th highest grossing movie of 2013.

After Earth is the final proof (as if more was needed after the critical receptions of The Happening and The Last Airbender) that director M. Night Shyamalan should stay away from Sci-Fi and stick with the horror/thriller genre, which he later goes back to and enjoyed a kind of second coming of his career with The Visit and this year's Split.After Earth is also the film that ended Will Smith's incredible streak of 100M domestic grossers (Seven Pounds not counting since it was a mid-level drama production and was never meant to be as commercially appealing as his other films during those years) that included such hits as MIB2, Hitch, Hancock and I Am Legend. As a Sci-Fi summer tentpole with a $130 million production budget, the studio was expecting blockbuster numbers and they must have felt that it was impossible for a Will Smith star vehicle to flop, but After Earth did it, in spectacular fashion. The film is also Will Smith's first truly bad film in a long, long time.How did this happen? Many other reviewers have already explained the reasons better than I will be able to. This was a blatant effort on Will Smith's part to launch his son's own career as a respectable star and a box office draw, a foolish attempt with hindsight but perhaps it shouldn't have been that difficult to see at the time either. Jayden Smith was not one of the main reasons for The Karate Kid's success, and with the physique and voice of a teenager in 2012-13, he was anything but star material and shouldn't be anything more than a minor support character.Nepotism can get you roles, but it can't get you interest or approval from the audience. How many people bought tickets to see After Earth expecting 1 hour of Will Smith and perhaps 30mins of Jayden as daddy's sidekick, and ends up hugely disappointed (not counting the film's obvious lack of quality for now), even annoyed, because what they got was 1 hour of Jayden who just can't act, and whose delivery of lines are amateurish at best, and with maybe 20 minutes of Will Smith sitting still and doing nothing? I suspect a lot.Shyamalan will also need to share a big part of the blame for this film, as both the story and the script are terrible, and the directing efforts are nowhere to be seen (after all, you can't really make a wood stick aka Jayden Smith come alive). I hope he doesn't make more Sci-Fi in future, because that genre's clearly not where his talent lies and he really should know that by now.