The story is all fabricated obstacles, of which there are not many, all very obvious, and they do not raise the stakes. Will is injured in the crash, and so Kitai must venture alone to find the wreckage of the ship, and along the way, conquer his own fear, the “true enemy”. Kitai accompanies his father, played by Will, on a mission, during which they crash land on Earth, which has been uninhabitable for 1,000 years. The story takes place in the distant future and is about Kitai, played by Will’s son Jaden, a young cadet whose heroic father discovered the secret which could defeat the monstrous Ursa and preserve the human race.
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Plus they are both hometown boys from Philly, the city of brotherly love. Smith personally chose Shyamalan to write and direct this film, maybe because, like Smith's idea for After Earth, Lady In The Water was based on a story Shyamalan wrote for his kids. This is because his previous film, The Last Airbender was considered a disaster, and his last couple, The Happening and Lady In The Water were disappointments at the box office. Night Shyamalan, a fact which hasn’t been very heavily publicized like it used to be. There are some glaring technical errors, like a bad cut that made my wife and I look at each other to say “What was that!?” And sometimes during running scenes, the dialogue wasn’t mixed right and seemed out of sync with the characters surroundings. It defeats the theme because what’s to fear when you can see everything coming? The ambitious Moby Dick theme doesn’t connect and seems forced. We’ve learned the lesson before the battle begins. There are no challenges in which to invest. I like the theme, of fear being an illusion, a choice, but the execution is bad. The film makes Earth and its species look majestic. What the movie made me feel most, was an appreciation for Earth. This starts with an opening voice-over that serves the set up but doesn’t provide any particular insight and is never paid off, and the exposition never ends. The dialogue is all exposition, meaning it tells us everything, or is obviously setting up later plot points, which can be easily spotted with basic screen writing training or just watching a lot of movies. Even the twists, usually a Shyamalan specialty, are easily detected, like the smell of fear to an Ursa. Nothing much happens that wasn’t preordained from the start. Though a little scary and violent, it is essentially a kids adventure movie. Before I discuss how this affects the viewing of the movie, I’ll review the movie on its merits, as that is my primary responsibility.
On their journey to After Earth, the Smith family have brought a lot of baggage with them. Will Smith also wrote the story on which the film is based. This week, American actor and writer James Longshore reviews the new science fiction film After Earth, directed by M Night Shyamalan and starring Will Smith and his son Jaden Smith.
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