There is absolutely no part of this that suggests that the screenwriters - of whom only director M. Now, routine missions that happen right before retiring can only go spectacularly wrong, which is how the Kaiges end up being the only survivors of a crash-landing on a planet that proves to be the long-abandoned Earth, having been damaged in a freak asteroid storm. He fails to do any of these things, but his mother Faia (Sophie Okonedo, spectacularly wasted by a two-scene role in the first movie she's appeared in since 2008) leans upon her husband to take Kitai with on a routine mission, Cypher's last prior to retirement. The relationship between the elder and younger Raiges has been clipped and official ever since then, with the boy attempting to join the Ranger Corps commanded by his father in an effort to prove his independent masculinity and also win his father's love.
Earth is a ghastly wasteland, humanity lives on a far off-planet, and Kitai Raige (Smith fils) is the son and only surviving child of the war hero Cypher Raige (Smith père), whose daughter Senshi (Zoë Isabella Kravitz, seen as an inspiring memory) was killed by the Ursa about five years prior. Exposition isn't a strong suit here, with the movie plunging us right into a staccato-edited montage of a spaceship crashing and a survivor being flung out into a field as Jaden monotonously reads some voiceover that sets the scene in the murkiest possible way: there are evil fear-smelling alien monsters called Ursa that the assembly of the opening suggests were part of the reason humanity fled, but then it's also the case that the Ursa have only been a problem for a couple of generations, and whatever, it doesn't matter. It being impossible to really discuss everything that is horrible with the film without saying some very nasty things about the performer, and it being impossible to say nasty things about the performer without feeling like an asshole - even if one of the most privileged, wealthy adolescents in the history of mankind can probably stand up just fine to a few bullying bloggers - I've run smack into a wall.Īfter Earth, as ginned up by God knows how many script doctors from a story originating with the film's producer and co-star Will Smith, takes place an ill-expressed number of hundreds of years in the future, a millennium after humanity was forced to abandon our home planet by a thing, probably to do with environmental catastrophe. But this leaves us at something of an impasse, because Smith is the chief problem with After Earth, a movie that is unrelievedly terrible, but might very well have been simply mediocre with any other lead performance. There's nothing respectable at all about beating up on a 14-year-old in print, and it is the inalienable right of Jaden Smith to be 14 years old, something that most of us were at some point.
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