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I tried to enjoy this movie; I wanted to enjoy this movie. I did not. I like most of Will Smith’s movies and M. Night Shyamalan usually directs well. This movie looks ok, but the plot is meh. However, what really drags this movie down is the acting. Sometimes the apple falls miles from the tree and sometimes it’s in a different galaxy. The kid should consider a different career. I was mostly bored with this.

One of the most boring films ever made what was will smith thinking of doing nepotism with his son so insulting Jaden can’t act and his charachter is so unlikeable he reminds me of a kid who is abusive to his father how cruel, the plot is so inconsistent, poorly paced and lacking any interest in rooting for the CGI is awful it makes that of the prehistoric creatures in 10,000 bc look masterful. I almost fell asleep after that mid act of Jaden sky diving they barely show the monsters faces it must be because of how bad they look yes the CGI special effects are so bad they don’t bother showing them on screen. There is no charisma, no emotion and no drama or suspense it’s sleep inducing all around I feel bad for will smith what was he thinking this is perhaps the worst movie he has ever done his worst film since wild wild west. M night shyamalan shame on you I give after earth a whopping 1/5

Beyond bad. Jaden Smith got a lot of crap for his awful performance, which it is. He has a weird New York accent for some reason? While Will Smith sounds like a robot without a New York accent. If they're father and son, wouldn't they have the same accent? Or more likely, the father would but the son wouldn't? Very bizarre. Will Smith's acting is even worse than his son's here. I hope he doesn't slap me for writing this review.

Decent movie. Nothing like dad giving you a lead role. There should have been more fighting in the movie instead of seeing him struggle so much.

A crash landing leaves Kitai Raige and his father Cypher stranded on Earth, a millennium after events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help. (4)

This is one of the dumbest movie scripts I have come across in a long, long time.

After earth is a terrible movie. Nonsense plot, ridiculous New York accents, wooden acting, awful direction all courtesy of shmamallammalan and his team. Jayden was a poor choice as a lead here. Overall it feels like your average 'stuck on a planet' sci fi survival plot only done badly.

While I don't think it's Shyamalan's worst movie (The Last Airbender takes that spot for obvious reasons) it has definitely the worst performance by any of his protagonists. Sorry Mark Wahlberg in The Happening, but at least you were funny; Jaden Smith is just embarrassingly bad in this.

I really liked After Earth. No, it's not your standard Science fiction story. It's more of the story of a father and son that learn to know, respect, and love each other in a more meaningful way, that just happens to take place in a science fiction world.

Well after watching the movie I have to say its a really good film. Love this kind of sci-fi.

Night Shyamalan is a director who has already accustomed us to a certain inconstancy. Sometimes he makes brilliant films like "Sixth Sense", but it is necessary to go fishing in the middle of the crap he is doing. This film is just another one, perhaps one of the worst films by this filmmaker I have ever seen, in that it is boring from start to finish. It all takes place about a thousand years after Man left planet Earth, allegedly destroyed and polluted. Living in exile, on settlements and bases set up outside the Solar System, the humans lives in permanent war with aliens. The Earth, in turn, regenerated from its wounds but the emptiness left by Man allowed other species to develop and compete for supremacy, creating a planet hostile to human presence. The script takes place precisely on Earth, when a human spaceship crashes on the planet and only two occupants, father and son, survive. Personally, I detested the story of the film because it seems totally unrealistic and beyond any acceptable credibility. I'm not even sure where to start talking about it. Everything from the premises sounds bad. The planet has never looked so beautiful, out of any threat to human beings that could not be resolved, given that we supposedly had extremely advanced technology. The direction, and the general work of Shyamalan, has never seemed so weak and lazy as until this film. The cast is poor. Will Smith seems totally uninspired, in an idiotic character and without any soul. He is a good actor, his ability and talent are not in question because he has proven it several times, but it seems unquestionable that this effort has fallen far short of what he is capable of. Next to him, curiously, is his son Jaden Smith. I have doubts if he already had the capacity as an actor to do a job like this, given that everything I saw from his performance is weak and histrionic. He seemed uncomfortable with the role and neither did his father establish good working chemistry. But let's face it, he is young, he is still gaining experience and, if he really wants to follow in his father's footsteps, he has a lot to see, learn and improve. The question is to want. Personally, I will like to see this young man doing more and better in the future. Technically, the film also seemed very fragile. Using and abusing the green screen and an average CGI, it has an uneven cinematography, with good moments punctually appearing in the middle of a reigning monotony. The sets and costumes, especially the most futuristic ones, look very artificial and far-fetched... they seem what they are! Sets and costumes! The soundtrack said nothing to me. What was done here is very bad, and I think that is due more to the bad material given to the actors, to a bad script and to the director’s lack of skill or commitment.

I'm actually amazed people are giving this positive reviews.. What about this movie makes sense? What about this movie is any good? Why does this movie kill logic, I get its scifi but your ring wouldn't detect dog crap out your window in space Why is Will smith trying so hard to promote his spoiled brat of a son who thinks no one should go to school. Why does M. Night keep getting directing roles when he couldn't roll his way out of a plastic bag. This movie deserves all the hate it gets, its corny/cliche as hell. Not to mention the dialog/plot is moronic. The moby **** references weren't needed at all. Side note don't listen to "Lehlohonolo" anymore on reviews, this idiot clearly shows they vote 10 on anything that has negative reviews even if they are correct ones.

Awful Though not as painful as The Last Airbender, After Earth is still an awful film with a Twilight level performance from Jayden Smith (I have nothing against him, Blame the script).

Not as bad as people put it to be,,has some okay moments, but the acting was so bad, so many plot holes, and worthless scenes

Uhm this movie just really fails for me because Jaden Smith is a terrible actor.

What has happened with M. Night Shyamalan? This movie is crammed with wooden acting, wooden dialogue and a story that is just oddly-paced. The worst thing is that nothing in this movie makes the slightest sense.

I never thought that I would see Will Smith deliver such an apathetic and dull performance as in "After Earth". The script itself is already an immense disappointment, not knowing how to work with the material it has. It's not even one of the worst movies ever, but calling it "mediocre" comes to be a compliment.

Una película horrible, sin sentido, sin emoción, con malos efectos. Lo peor de Will Smith.

Aside from some impressive shots and special effects, theres really nothing redeemable about this movie. The script is lackluster in almost everyway, Screenplay is even worse, Jaden Smith isn't really the best actor and Will Smith, one of Hollywood's best and sought after stars shows almost no emotion almost to the point as to where it seems like he doesn't want to be there. His natural charisma he often has on display in his films is so clearly held back that its almost sad to see him relegated to a supporting role in a vanity project for the sake of helping his sons career.

This is a very cheesy movie, I understand that Will was trying to be with his son, but it doesn't mean that he has to make this huge movie, just to be with him.

It's no surprise at this point that an M. Night Shyamalan film would reek of utter garbage. After Earth stars the most overrated actor in the game; Will Smith, and the worst actor in the game, Jaden Smith. While the premise could have been explored to a much more deeper plot about family and human development, After Earth decides to take the lazy route and focus on a fight between a father and a son, a plot that is so deep in the ground, it is basically a genre of its own at this point. Every good that Shyamalan ever did for the film industry was wiped away with this flick. However, if you are at a party, a very loud and crowded party, After Earth would be an alright movie to slightly glance over to while you are between conversations.

Oh no, who let Shyamalan out of his cage again? Why can't he get the message that his movies ****? Everyone's thinking it. And hey, how bout Will and Jaden? It's not like they're bad actors in general. I mean, The Pursuit of Happyness was actually a really good movie and they were great in that. Here, they're just so bland and boring. For Arceus' sake, Siri emotes more than these two do! A straight up 0 here to help smack this movie's rating back down where it belongs.

After earth should have stayed after school for this one so that it can be taught a huge lesson, it you want to make a movie, make it right so it does not ****.

A very bad movie. It had some good ideas but jaden smith can't act for his life. There whole family squabble seemed very cringe worthy and I half expected them to both burst out laughing case how bad the whole scene came out. Will smith was ok but jaden oh boy. The visuals were great. That is pretty much it for the positives though. Don't see this movie.

Summer 2013 was seriously one of the best summers I ever spent my life on. Never knew this existed until now so I came to say... wow.... 2013 really blew themselves up with this movie.

This isn't a movie that's so bad it's funny, nor is it painful to sit through. What it is, is just a dull, boring dud. It has one or two neat elements but it completely under utilizes a somewhat brilliant premise. Earth evolving into a place designed specifically to kill humans? Should be amazing right? Wrong! The effects aren't very good, but that's not the only problem. The main problem is that a handful of somewhat strange creatures and Jaden Smith running through a bunch of woods is all the movie gets out of the idea. What a waste. It felt more like an average science fiction tv show episode than a fully realized film. Shyamalan put no vision or inspiration into this movie. Hopefully The Visit really is better. It'd be nice to see him get back on track.

M. Night Shyamalan stumbled again with the same stone, this time with " After Earth " in dispsicio , the plot was the only expectation that ended in disappointment and pure deception , this very bad script , and i repeat , "M. Night Shyamalan stumbled again with the same stone".

The sad part is that hundreds of talented teenage boys would have killed for that part. But he said to daddy,"Daddy, put me in a movie. Daddy, show everyone how good I can run." Daddy, let everyone hear how good I can screech, fingernail on slate style. The result. An unwatchable piece of garbage.

and the award for the #1 failed directorial comeback can easily go to M Night Shyamalan for what could have been a great movie unfortunately the script was too ridiculous I think who ever wrote it was too lazy to even go through a science gazette, and also Jaden Smith was way too annoying and off key especially his on and off then on again outbursts throughout the movie and probably Will Smith's worst performance like he gave 0% acting to lift the spirits, just sit around and give advice in a boring tone, even though I understand he portrays an emotional character, maybe the character I am legend or The pursuit of Happiness could have made this a little greater. compare this to Dumb and Dumberer well now Shyamalan's career has completed into becoming a total twist itself!!

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This movie might have like 2 good moments but ended up with nothing but a complete bore. The script was bland with dialogue that makes your ears bleed. This film was slow, like the sixth sense. But in the sixth sense is interesting and intriguing. This was slow and boring. I will not blame this on Jaden or Will Smith. It was Shyamalan's awful directing that was putting me to sleep this movie. I don't know how Shyamalan fails movies this badly with great actors.

though not as meaningful as oblivion I have to say that the beauty of this film has me wanting to watching at least once more.....unfortunately it seems to be a lot of nature shots.....

After Earth is by far not as bad as You **** Has potential to be a good movie with an interesting premise but the execution made the movie bad and the acting is just so bad and plain boring despite it's well I said it again interesting premise.

I don't understand why this movie has an average score of 4.2 out of 10. This movie deserves much less for its laughable acting, absurd plot, nonexistant effort, and terrible pacing. The only good part of this movie was the CG effects and even those were average. After Earth gets a 1/10 (Abysmal).

At huge expense, this film fails miserably. A promising father-son Smith duo. Amazing visuals. Appalling results. The film's lack of anything remotely interesting had me wincing in pain. I cannot even begin to imagine how Columbia Pictures feel. After Earth's threats are pathetic and the whole film's precinct even more so.

After Earth looked half decent but it turned out to be a huge flop and a dull and lazy excuse for a Science Fiction adventure. An underused and uninterested Will Smith gives a half hearted and lazy performance and Jaden Smith simply cannot act and I struggle to take him seriously. It was a novelty to see Will & Jaden Smith together in 'The Pursuit of Happyness'. But seeing them together again here feels like something of a money spinning gimmick. And you get the impression that Will Smith was just shoe horned in to gain the mass appeal that Jaden Smith couldn't achieve on his own. What confused me most about this film though was when I realised that it was both written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Love or hate his early films, his directing capabilities where always up for debate. But surely now he's lost all his credibility as a filmmaker. He just seems the oddest choice to make a film like this. And I use the term 'film' loosely as After Earth actually feels more like a video game of levels going from one set piece to the next. Collapse

"After Earth" 10 Scale Rating: 3.0 (Awful) ... The Good: The premise is a good one. This could have been a pretty good film based on the idea. The Bad: Not quite as horrible as people claimed, but still pretty damn bad. Super slow and not overly interesting, you find yourself wanting it to hurry up and end. The creatures that populate the film look like cartoons that were rejected from the latest Ice Age film. Worst of all, the acting was horrid, especially Jaden Smith. It is clear to me that the kid simply can't carry a film on his own and lacks his father's charisma and skill.

It has more flaws (uninteresting characters, slow pacing, small storyline, predictability) than strengths but After Earth is focused on its plot and offers enough visual thrills to qualify as a passable movie.

What happened to M.Night after the The Village? The acting is bad and the plot is lacking potential. Infact Will Smith's facial expression was how I felt throughout this whole movie. I really hate to say this but Will Smith **** up this movie and the screenplay is terrible.

The movie was sort of slow paced and boring, it lacked interesting action, and had some bad acting. It was an O.K. movie it had some action and an O.K. storyline. But what do you expect, any movie by M. Night Shyamalan will probably be pretty bad or dumb.

After Earth was expected to be bad by me because of M. Night Shamylan's directing ability. The Sixth Sense was great, Unbreakable was really good, Signs was good, The Village was OK, the Happening was terrible, and this movie is even worse. They took Will Smith and **** on his acting abilities. He was downright awful and he was a huge miscast.

M. Night Shayamalan has once again produced another thumbs down movie that no one should scene. This film fails to offer anything interesting in terms of characters or story. The most I can say for this movie is that it has some nice effects and cool technology. This movie is an hour and a half of nothing and somehow takes an intriguing premise and fails to anything remotely interesting with it. Please do yourself a favor and don’t waste your time watching this movie.

Although this is a very (unintentionally) funny movie, I decided I wouldn't rate it a 8/8 since I feel like Metacritic is a bit more serious than IMDB when it comes it movies. Anyway After Earth is a movie filled with plot-holes, horrible acting, technical errors, awkward accents, and Moby ****. Moby ****....... Why is Moby **** even a thing in this movie? I'm sure it COULD HAVE been a subtle reminder of Jaden and Will's family but good lord M. Night you didn't have to shove in our faces as much as you did. Anyway the accents are funny, the acting is goofy, the technical errors are noticable, and Moby **** is completely unnecessary.

Smith wanted everyone to know that he basically directed this and Shyamalan was more or less the cameraman - I bet he wished he could take that back...

This boring movie is filled with conflicting messages. The father tells the son to conquer his fear and not to be emotional, and yet we tend to have this father-and-son bond relationship. So ultimately, what are we rooting for? Are we supposed to care about their relationship if they're both unemotional? Goddamn, it's so badly-written.

I must admit the reviews did prevent me from watching this movie sooner. I am glad I did. This movie has vision, a must see for anyone who has imagination of what the future can hold. I must assume that people who give this movie a 0 or a 1, are just not sci-fi people and should just stick with watching Breaking Bad. They say Smith's acting was bad, on the contrary he played his part well, he is suppose to be emotionless. You have to try to put yourself in the future folks, and understand what is going on. You have to pay attention to a sci-fi. They say the story is thin. Does every movie have to have a story that is all over the place. This is a survival, adventure sci-fi. rate it as such, and do not review it if you do not like those types of movies. Stick to your dramas and don't rate this as one. Good job, need more movies with visions of the future.

I watched 15 minutes of this, which was all I could stand. Nepotism has already been mentioned in these reviews and I can only agree. The lack of emotion from Will and Jaden was difficult to watch. Perhaps Jaden has a future as an actor but he needs to attend a decent acting school. At the time this movie was made his acting skill was dreadful and it exposed his lack of talent. It takes more than an attractive face to be a successful actor. I think his Dad is blinded by the deep affection he has for both his children.

The only thing raising this turkey above zero is the fact that, as far as I could tell, there weren`t any microphones poking into any shots or any sets collapsing in the background. The movie is so bad I just stopped watching and went to bed about 2/3 of the way in, which is rare. I never really liked Smith. He has goofy and some weird tough guy act which makes him look as if he`s being zapped with a cattle prod, and if you don`t like those he`s out. But his son is worse. Ranging between whining about his father and crying to tantrums, his most regular appearance is of a dull boy who has just been shot in the ass with a tranquilizer gun. Fortunately he is so bad that in a lame attempt to hide this fact he doesn`t have any lines in a lot of scenes, but just stands there nodding or repeating the other actor`s lines, like some slow kid who has been brought up in front of the class to be mocked and ridiculed. It would be funny if it wasn`t so unbearably sanctimonious. I suppose we could admire Smith JR for trying to lead a movie right in the middle of his awkward phase, sporting his freshly shaved 14 hair mustache look; but personally I`m not sure I`d have hired him to play a cow in a primary school nativity play. He constantly has this weird, annoying grimace on, which I didn`t realize was supposed to convey fear until I read reviews online after suffering through the movie, And this leads us the the "message" in this awful turkey, which is that fear is bad and that you can`t kill space bugs when you`re afraid. Detailing all the weird plot holes in After Earth is an entire study in itself, and due to my profound lack of interest in the movie I probably missed a few, but here goes anyway: First of all humans in the movie are able to build inter stellar space craft but apparently not guns of any kind, which is presumably why they are being hunted by blind bugs. In the movie`s only promising moment Will Smith gets **** out of a crashing space ship far above the canopy of the forest, and for a second you are tricked into believing that the director has just killed off his overpaid, overrated Hollywood degenerate 15 minutes into the movie, leaving his untalented son to lead the movie by himself, as a sort of girlish, black Tom Hanks Castaway in space. But then he miraculously reappears on the ground almost immediately; unconscious and with two broken legs, but exactly as robotic and dull as before. Then the most comical parts of the movie occur when the incapable son is sent to retrieve a transmitter from the tail of the vehicle, which crashed where Will Smith`s corpse should probably have landed. According to the lifeless Will Smith night time brings intense cold which ravages the land so that any humans caught outdoors will instantly freeze to death, even though every single stinking scene in the movie is set in lush forest surroundings. So the question is: if the cold will kill Will`s brain damaged son instantly, how come all the trees still have leaves on and baboons can live there because it`s so nice and warm? Never mind this nonsense though because the solution to this weird problem is "hot zones" at regular intervals between the ship from which the immobilized Will Smith is directing his comatose progeny and the tail to which said son must travel. As long as he reaches a "hot zone" every evening before the harmless cold kills him he`ll be all fine and dandy. How convenient! How a grown man could have written such awful trash is a mystery, as is how he might then have been able to convince another grown man to direct it for him, dragging their names and the names of all associated with them into the mud. Every aspect of this movie, short of some of the special effects and I guess pretty shots of forest (the one not having been killed by the intense cold I mentioned), is absolutely horrible. I would rather download old episodes of Lost in Space from the mid 60s than watch After Earth again, special effects be damned! By far and away the worst movie of 2013 that I`m aware of. And Smith JR should go back to school at once.

I liked it,great efforts of all sides great visual effects and the Smiths were very good...i felt that the fatherhood was present between Will Smith and Jaden Smith...i say it is a good movie to watch.

Let's see. So the message is no there's no such thing as fear. Ok. think will take a dive in this tank of box jellyfish. Hey, that is an enlightening message since it means no more watching this crap...