nickethos I've seen this movie a couple time over the last 5 years. Tonight I decided to pop it on again, but this time I saw something deeper in the movie. There are quite a few hidden meanings throughout this movie about nature, and life. It makes me laugh to see review about "worst movie of the decade". Open your mind and see the deeper meaning through this.

Ilikehorrormovies This movie is so damn boring, has terrible acting yet worst kid performance from Jaden Smith, slow pacing, and terrible story. I do like some stuff of the film but still doesn't save the movie and I know it try to be the Star Wars of 2013 but fail on a bad note. At least it was better than Fant4stic because this film has more action and more interesting things. Please don't buy this crap film! I'M BEGGING YOU! BELIVE THE CRITICS!

samzzz-69448 After Earth is the final proof (as if more was needed after the critical receptions of The Happening and The Last Airbender) that director M. Night Shyamalan should stay away from Sci-Fi and stick with the horror/thriller genre, which he later goes back to and enjoyed a kind of second coming of his career with The Visit and this year's Split.After Earth is also the film that ended Will Smith's incredible streak of 100M domestic grossers (Seven Pounds not counting since it was a mid-level drama production and was never meant to be as commercially appealing as his other films during those years) that included such hits as MIB2, Hitch, Hancock and I Am Legend. As a Sci-Fi summer tentpole with a $130 million production budget, the studio was expecting blockbuster numbers and they must have felt that it was impossible for a Will Smith star vehicle to flop, but After Earth did it, in spectacular fashion. The film is also Will Smith's first truly bad film in a long, long time.How did this happen? Many other reviewers have already explained the reasons better than I will be able to. This was a blatant effort on Will Smith's part to launch his son's own career as a respectable star and a box office draw, a foolish attempt with hindsight but perhaps it shouldn't have been that difficult to see at the time either. Jayden Smith was not one of the main reasons for The Karate Kid's success, and with the physique and voice of a teenager in 2012-13, he was anything but star material and shouldn't be anything more than a minor support character.Nepotism can get you roles, but it can't get you interest or approval from the audience. How many people bought tickets to see After Earth expecting 1 hour of Will Smith and perhaps 30mins of Jayden as daddy's sidekick, and ends up hugely disappointed (not counting the film's obvious lack of quality for now), even annoyed, because what they got was 1 hour of Jayden who just can't act, and whose delivery of lines are amateurish at best, and with maybe 20 minutes of Will Smith sitting still and doing nothing? I suspect a lot.Shyamalan will also need to share a big part of the blame for this film, as both the story and the script are terrible, and the directing efforts are nowhere to be seen (after all, you can't really make a wood stick aka Jayden Smith come alive). I hope he doesn't make more Sci-Fi in future, because that genre's clearly not where his talent lies and he really should know that by now.

Charles Lia 'After Earth' is not a perfect film, not by any means. But for someone to say that this is the worst film of the last decade or one of the worst films of all time means that this is a grossly misunderstood film as even in its poorest moments there are still a lot of redeeming qualities to take into consideration.Like its science-fiction concept. Humankind had to evacuate planet Earth because pollution has rendered the planet inhospitable and colonise a new planet, Nova Prime. 1,000 years have passed and the year is 3071. On a mission with his son Kitai Raige to transport a contained but very hostile alien species called the Ursa, general Cypher Raiger orders the crew on his spaceship to land on our planet after being drastically hit by an asteroid shower. The twist? Well Earth has also changed in these 1,000 years free of human interference. As Cypher explains to Kitai: "This is a class 1 quarantined planet. Everything on this planet has evolved to kill humans." I won't reveal much more of the plot, but as one can see this is a very intriguing concept for a science-fiction movie. I also love the acting. This is a film that deals heavily with the relationship between father and son and there could have been few better candidates more suitable for the role than Will and Jaden Smith. A lot of people have criticized their dialogue in this movie, commenting that is not the way a father speaks to his son in real life, but have they ever considered that maybe they were supposed to sound like that? After all, Cypher is no ordinary dad. He's a general, a so-called 'Ghost', who has trained his mind not to show any fear and thus be rendered invisible to an Ursa alien, who preys on human fear and maybe emotion too. Whoever expects a normal father-son relationship in this movie is clearly barking up the wrong tree. And there is another plot detail involving Kitai's sister which I will not spoil here but which also sheds light on their strained relationship.There are some nice details complementing this movie as well. When general Cypher salutes the one-legged soldier before embarking on their mission, for instance, is a brilliant example of foreshadowing of what happens later on in the movie.All in all, 'After Earth' is an entertaining movie. It won't set the movie-going world on fire but it certainly doesn't deserve all these negative reviews.