After Earth (2013) 7/10

Starring : Jaden Smith, Will Smith, Zoe Isabella Kravitz, Sophie Okonedo
Director : M Night Shyamalan
Running Time : 100 mins

Thirteen year old Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) lives on Nova Prime, one thousand years after humanity was forced to flee Earth. When his father Cypher Raige (Will Smith) returns from a tour of duty, they are caught in an asteroid storm which forces their ship to crash land on an unrecognisable Earth. With his father injured and dying, Kitai is forced to become a man and try to recover their rescue beacon so that they can be rescued.

This is basically a vehicle for Jaden Smith with his dad taking the back burner for the most part. There isn’t much to the basic plot which relies heavily on visuals to get its message across, and surprisingly there isn’t really a twist in the end – something you’d expect from Shyamalan. Instead this is a sort of message of hope, wrapped in a message telling us that we are going to destroy our planet.

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