They (of course) play father and son General Cypher Riage and Kitai Raige, respectively, inhabitants of a distant planet colonised by humans, who find themselves in a race for survival after a mid-space journey leads to a crash landing on an Earth that has evolved into a much dangerous place a millennium after mankind left it. The names that are front and centre belong to Will Smith and his son Jaden. That his once popular name does not appear on any of the promo material indicates the dire professional straits Shyamalan has found himself in. Several turkeys later and the once critic’s darling has become a gun for hire, with After Earth his latest gig.
The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs were unique genre movies that benefited from Shyamalan’s creative approach to story and direction. A sci-fi adventure void of excitement and personality, After Earth takes an interesting idea and turns it into a meandering, plodding drip of a movie.
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