Even as the world has not quite gotten over
Shyamalan-bashing, Shyamalan himself has moved on to a reasonably good piece of
work in After Earth. The Pursuit of
Happyness showed the intense father-son pairing of Will Smith and Jaden Smith. After Earth takes us to the same pairing. A spaceship carying the duo crash-lands on a
(now abandoned by humans) Earth. With lead Will Smith (Cypher Paige)
incapacitated, son Jaden Smith (Kitai Paige) is entrusted with a perilous
mission to cross a hundred kilometers of hostile terrain to activate an
emergency beacon. With an Earth that is perhaps labeled a tad more hostile than
the way it has evolved, and friends and enemies alike in nature, Kitai has to
battle a plethora of calamities and a paucity of resources, and draws upon generous
doses of inspirational pep talk to get to his objective. A movie that has, at
the time of writing, faced the harshness of (clearly undeserved) extreme
reviews
13/20
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