I enjoyed this survival tale set in a futuristic world & can't believe all the Hate? There's hundreds of TERRIBLE movies out there that get great reviews? So i NEVER listen to all the SHEEP!!! best to watch it for yourself. I personally really enjoyed After Earth yeah some things are not perfect like Will Smith who i love his films,here is very robotic & emotionless & I'm not used to seeing him act like that at all but he was supposed to be that way & very serious so i just went with his character & Jaden smith isn't a great actor but still not absolutely terrible just ok & what i did enjoy was the world After Earth created & the mission Jaden has to do to save his father.A good fun sci-fi Adventure & believe me there's so many horrendous films out there that this is actually a very good one!!!

I love this movie. I feel the razor nominations/awards are unfair.

Not a great film but not a bad one either. So let's deal with the negative stuff first. It is a Sci-Fi film with some major plot holes, but I cam live with that, since I feel that Sci-Fi is mostly glorified fairy stories anyway. The main problem is structural and was brought about from the onset of making this movie. It is based on a 'story' by Will Smith, with him and his son playing the main characters and that is where the main problem lies, this is obviously a film driven by Will Smith's star power to enable his son to get a leg up into movie stardom. So the main roles has the 'Fresh Prince of Bel Air' trying to be an extreme iceman and a rather whiny, weedy boy playing an iceman in waiting. This was a tough ask for me. Will was doing best to be all stoic and militaristic which left Jaden Smith to do most of the acting, and to be the emotional centre of the film. And although Jaden is acting his little socks off, I can't help feeling of the thousands of young actors who would have much more believable in this role. So this film had a weak centre simply due to casting, but then this was always going to be the case here.OK so now to the good points. This is one of those films that looks like it's giving us that old movie cliché where a hero is created out of extreme adversity and it does that, but it is being deliberately undercut by the effect this macho individualistic behaviour has upon a family dynamic. This gave the film it's heart and kept me watching it and caring about the characters right to the end.Another key moment that kept the impetus going for me was the incident with the condor which echoed the main theme of 'family' in this film. It was a lovely moment, but I could see it might be difficult for others, because it seemed thematically and ecologically it didn't belong in this film. The back drop scenario of this film follows the depressing trope of - Space as a war zone for empires, being populated with rather extreme creatures. Space is a wonderful blank canvas of ignorance where you can create good old fashioned monsters, and although I enjoy watching a good monster, I don't believe in these movie space monsters. I find it hard to imagine a clear ecology for them and I personally have problems with Hollywood's desire to pedal these rather dubious Darwinist scenarios. So this film was also saved for me by the life affirming message that the condor's behaviour symbolised and which undercut the 'brutal universe' trope. This film also had a hint of mysticism which suited me. Oh, and all those M Night Shyamalan shouters and haters....Get a life !

If the idea was for Will to usher his son into the acting business, it sure didn't work. Apart from anything else, Will turned his natural charm and charisma way down, so as to not outshine his son too much. No need, even Keanu Reeves is decidedly non-wooden next to anybody in this turkey. I am really amazed that M. Night Shyamalan is still able to find work. He has to take the blame squarely for this embarrassing, steamy turd of a movie. Maybe a lot of bad judgement on Will's part as well. Hopefully the younger Mr. Smith will learn something from this, and choose to do something else with his life. I won't go on and enumerate all the things wrong with the movie; it's already been done here. If you haven't seen it, please don't bother. And hope that Mr. M. Night Shyamalan is finally drummed out of the movie business.