Eager to show his son the ropes, Cypher takes Kitai along on a mission that’s compromised following their ship getting stuck in a meteor shower – killing the crew and forcing them to land on inhospitable Earth. His youngest son Kitai (Jaden Smith) wants so desperately to follow in his footsteps, but his emotional and impetuous nature cause him to not be accepted as a ranger, which I guess is some kind of special military rank for young folk. On this distant outpost, famed military general Cypher Raige (Smith Sr.) has become a beloved warrior known for his ability to “ghost,” or not be seen by these monsters because he has no fear. Survivors of massive environmental disasters and alien created genocidal monsters known as the Ursa now live on the distant planet of Nova Prime. It’s the distant future, and as is often the case, the Earth has been destroyed, evacuated, and declared uninhabitable. The real twist here, however, comes not from Shyamalan’s shortcomings as a filmmaker, but from this dull and nonsensical sci-fi father and son story’s leading man and project progenitor: the usually reliable Will Smith.
Night Shyamalan would craft yet another film that’s patently insufferable without the aid of a drinking game or a good sense of humour, but After Earth continues in the filmmaker’s long storied streak of high profile duds. It shouldn’t necessarily be too much of a shock at this point that once promising auteur turned walking punchline M.
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