The assistance is a sentimental moment that boosts the movie's cursory ecological message, which also involves Moby-Dick and a cameo by some whales. Kitai tangles with mutant baboons and tigers, but he also gets aid from one of the supposedly homicidal critters.
"Everything on this planet has evolved to kill humans," cautions Cypher, a warning that turns out not to be true. Slammed by an asteroid storm, the ship crashes on a "class 1 quarantine planet." (That would be Earth.) The only survivors are Cypher, Kitai and the Ursa.ĭad busts both legs in the wreck, so it's up to Kitai to retrieve the beacon that will summon the interstellar AAA to come give them a tow. They're flying somewhere on a space cruiser that, absurdly, carries a captive Ursa. Steely dad and marshmallowy son get themselves in trouble while on the old man's One Last Mission. Monkey See Summer Movie Preview: Kids, Theft, The Apocalypse And Joss Whedon 2013 99 min PG-13 Drama, Action/Adventure, Science FictionFeature Film 4K. While he travels the universe, stoically doing brave stuff, his son Kitai (the younger Smith) is at Ranger Corps school, trying to become just like dreary old Dad. Legendary General Cypher Raige returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai. One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanitys escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankinds new home. So the only people who can best then are those who are literally fearless, like Gen. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help. The Ursa are blind, but they can smell human dread.
Their new home is hardly congenial, being populated by people-eating Ursa - creatures that aren't a form of bear they're the usual space-monster hybrid of squid, cockroach and pit bull. Set 1,000 years in the future, the story begins long after humans have fled an environmentally trashed Earth. He'll start losing viewers with his wooden opening narration. And Jaden Smith, in the movie's tissue-thin principal role, is called on to act. Night Shyamalan, auteur of twisty The Sixth Sense, struggles with a surprise-free plot and a trial-by-fire moral so earnest it suggests a circa-1944 World War II flick. Will Smith portrays a stern outer space hero devoid of the bantering wit and easygoing demeanor of his trademark roles. Last year, he came to the defense of friend Tom Cruise and Scientology saying he was introduced to the religion, but never admitting to actively practicing.Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence and some disturbing imagesĪ disastrous father-son endeavor about a calamitous father-son expedition, After Earth doesn't play to the strengths of any of its major participants. However, it's been called into question whether or not he practices the religion. Note: Will Smith has denied being a Scientologist in the past. 'There are five ways in which a human being reacts toward a source of danger,' he wrote in 'Dianetics.' 'These are also the five courses he can take on any given problem.'” "Casual students of Scientology may find their ears pricking up at those maxims because fear and its overcoming receive a lot of play in 'Dianetics,' a foundational text by the creator of Scientology, the pulp science-fiction writer L. The New York Times points that Smith's dialogue is no coincidence. Danger is very real, but fear is a choice." Anytime Will Smith is giving some fatherly advice to his son, there's the feeling the audience is being preached to as well: