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Futuristic sci-fi adventure starring Will Smith and offspring Jaden, playing a father and son who crash land on Earth, a thousand years after humans evacuated - directed by M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense).
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After Earth
Futuristic sci-fi adventure starring Will Smith and offspring Jaden, playing a father and son who crash land on Earth, a thousand years after humans evacuated - directed by M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense). Stranded on the planet mankind fled after cataclysmic events, the pair embark on a journey to signal for help. They face uncharted terrain, dangerous evolved species that now rule the planet, and aa unstoppable alien that escaped during the crash.
2013Rating: M, Science fiction themes and violence100 minsUSA
ActionScience Fiction
- Director:
- M. Night Shyamalan ('The Sixth Sense', 'Signs', 'Unbreakable')
- Writer:
- M. Night ShyamalanGary WhittaWill Smith
- Cast:
- Will SmithJaden SmithIsabelle FuhrmanZoë KravitzSophie Okonedo
After Earth / Reviews
Variety
Shyamalan is clearly a director-for-hire here, his disinterest palpable from first frame to last.
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Jaden Smith takes centre stage in a futuristic rites of passager that plays like an extended episode of The Twilight Zone. Although "Oblivion" narrowly remains this summer’s better ruined-Earth actioner.
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Time Out
What undoes the film is its rather rancid parent-child sentimentality (a Shyamalan staple, admittedly) and a charisma-free performance from the younger Smith that suggests the apple has fallen very far from the tree.
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The Guardian
He's done it again. M Night Shyamalan has done it again. Again. Done it. Again.
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Los Angeles Times
There is no small irony that this sci-fi action adventure is about surviving a serious crash. The scorched earth left behind by "After Earth" is sure to leave a scar on everyone involved.
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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.
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Empire Magazine
Prepare to cringe and snicker whenever the characters are talking, but gasp when Shyamalan just shows amazing stuff.
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