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After Earth

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After Earth

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Summary

Sci-fi adventure starring Will Smith and son Jaden Smith as father and son astronauts who crash land on Earth which has been abandoned for a millennium. Together they face a perilous journey to signal for help on Earth's hostile surface.

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A star rating of 2 out of 5.

Alan Jones

Will and Jaden Smith star here as father-and-son astronauts who crash-land on Earth 1,000 years after humanity has left the planet and must overcome the dangers of the now hostile terrain - as well as an alien predator that has escaped from their spaceship. Smith Sr wrote the story as the first part of a possible trilogy (no chance!), and it's also clearly intended to elevate his son to star status. However, the plodding plot is told in unimaginative broad strokes, while Smith Jr's inexperience shows in the stilted delivery of his dialogue. Tapping a down-on-his-luck M Night Shyamalan (who at the time was still living off the early promise of The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable) to direct was a decent act of charity by Smith, but apart from the odd effective sequence, this is nothing but a by-the-numbers survival story peddling contrived emotion, glittering sets and repetitive CGI peril.

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4.8/10

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Cast

rolenameCypher RaigeWill SmithKitai RaigeJaden SmithFaia RaigeSophie OkonedoSenshi RaigeZoë KravitzCommander VelanGlenn MorshowerPrivate McQuarrieDavid DenmanRaynaIsabelle Fuhrman

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rolenameDirectorM Night Shyamalan

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Theatrical distributor

Sony

Released on

2013-06-07

Languages

English

Available on

DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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