If your teen can get past that, After Earth offers a surprisingly positive viewing option for older family members. These gruesome depictions, along with the portrayal of several dead bodies, half-eaten animals and bloody accident injuries, are the film’s only real content issues. After capturing its prey, the beast impales its victims on tree branches as a warning to the other humans. The biggest threat on the boy’s journey (that ends at the top of a volcanic ash spewing mountain straight out of Lord of the Rings) is a man-hunting monster like the ones his father fights. And Kitai must face his fears and control his emotions (something his character also had to learn in The Karate Kid). This dad and teen must learn to appreciate and respect each other. But although the performances are the weakest link in this big screen production, the script addresses issues that many families with adolescents can relate to. While Tom Hanks managed to pull off a solo act in Cast Away, the challenge proves to be a lot more difficult for the relatively inexperienced Jaden. Night Shyamalan, puts a lot of pressure on the younger Smith who spends most of his time alone on screen, since much of the drama takes place in two separate locations (the injured dad is in the downed ship and the son is on the surface of the dangerous planet). The story, written by Will Smith and directed by M. As their only hope for survival, he sends Kitai on the 100-kilometer journey through hostile territory to find it. Suffering two broken legs, he is unable to retrieve a missing beacon they needs to signal for help. Treating his son more like one of his cadets than his offspring, Cypher defaults to commander mode once the plane goes down. What she hadn’t planned on was the crash. Cypher’s wife Faia (Sophie Okonedo) had hoped the trip would give the pair time to connect. His son is a sensitive yet impetuous youth who tries to prove himself to his father.
His job involves killing gruesome alien monsters that have been bred to hunt and destroy human beings. Like many adults today, Cypher works lots of overtime. When the smoke clears, the Prime Commander Cypher Raige (Will Smith) and his son Kitai (Jaden Smith) are the only survivors.ĭespite the fact that almost everyone in the future wears the seemingly obligatory jumpsuit (fashion designers apparently don’t survive the end of the world), other things haven’t changed that much, at least when it comes to human interactions. While on a routine flight to deliver cargo from one intergalactic location to another, a team of futuristic humans crashes on the toxic blue planet. Thanks to the destructive actions of mankind, all humans have long since been removed to colonize less polluted globes. And while After Earth takes place at least 1000 years into the future, retirement programs are definitely not in place on the planet. Almost every other movie this year portrays some apocalyptic event.
Worried about your retirement fund? If Hollywood’s predictions are right, society as we know it will be long gone before most of us can cash in on our 401K.
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