a5c7b9f00b In the future, Earth becomes inhabitable and mankind moves to Nova Prime. However, aliens try to conquer Nova Prime but are defeated by the Rangers under the command of General Cypher Raige. The aliens bring the predator Ursas to hunt down the humans attracted by their fear and Raige develops the fearless ghosting technique to defeat them. On the same day that Raige returns home, his estranged son Kitai Raige is not advanced to the Ranger position in the academy. Raige promises his wife that he will travel in his last assignment before retirement and she convinces him to bring Kitai with him. When their spacecraft is damaged by an asteroid storm, she crashes on Earth and only Raige and Kitai survive. Raige breaks both legs and Kitai needs to cross the hostile and dangerous planet to retrieve the beacon and save their lives. One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai. When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai's craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon. His whole life, Kitai has wanted nothing more than to be a soldier like his father. Today, he gets his chance. I don't know what movie everyone who didn't like this watching!! I love every single minute of it. <br/><br/>Seems like Will Smith fans didn't expect this type of character for him (I know I didn't). I found in the beginning of the movie it took a little time to adjust to this very different type of role. However, once I got into the movie I found he pulled it off and pulled me in!! I watched this twice in two days (DVD and then Blu-Ray) and enjoyed it each time understanding a little more. I would have liked this 110 min movie to have been longer (really), there was so much going on that I found myself wanting more of the back stories (men in the tree's, the dead apes…etc). Sure you could make assumptions on what happen and that was clearly the goal. One thing that I wanted to know more about was in post earth where everything was designed to kill humans, why did this bird feel the need to protect. The assumption that everything was out to get you did have some exceptions. Why? Because he tried to protect the her young? Or was there a deeper meaning that some of the old Earth was still intact?<br/><br/>I would recommend skipping the reviews and watch this movie for what it is, a really good story with some fantastic action sequences. Watching it on Blu-Ray on a big screen made all of the difference for me. The art, design and music was incredible. There was some dialog that was difficult to hear at times, but the emotions carried what you could not hear. <br/><br/>Jaden Smith can act and I found this was a great fit for him. I really hope that all of the bad press doesn't stop him from continuing. There is so much of his father in him that I can't wait to see how this young man progresses. <br/><br/>I for one would love to see an After Earth II with Jaden as the lead. Will would not be needed as I feel Jaden can carry the movie on his own.<br/><br/>Again, this is a very different role for Will Smith than what we have come to expect. Get over it!! Watch it a few times and he does grow on you and I would love to see more of this side of a great actor.<br/><br/>I "think" the way this movie was designed, each person gets a little something different out of it each time it is viewed. In my mind, that is what makes a great movie and one you want to watch multiple times.<br/><br/>I would recommend this as a family movie. My kids (13,10 & 9) just loved it and we spent a good 30 minutes after talking about it. Trust me, that doesn't happen very often. If the kids liked it, wanted to talk about it, then they got something of value out of it. The Harry Potter movies didn't get this kind of reaction. <br/><br/>If you go by the reviews and don't see the movie, I think you will be missing a very good movie. Watch it, enjoy it and don't pick it apart. It's a movie, a story and just sit back and enjoy the ride! How can I even begin to explain how good this movie is. Sci-fi, adventure, horror, family…it was overall, a great coming of age story. I watched it with my son, who had heard negative reviews. Afterward, he said it was a 'pretty good movie actually', and I had to sign on IMDb for the first time to leave a review (first review ever) and set things straight. You've got a super sensitive type of kid, put into a terrifying situation where he is scared out of his mind. With his father's voice in his ear pushing him to keep his wits, he falls, cries, runs and pretty much does everything that I would do if stuck in his situation. He's fighting his perceived failure in life, the despair of past trauma, and his fears in his own ability to mean anything-all of this in the perspective of a young boy. These concepts are all there with minimal spoon-feeding from the script writers. Running deep is an appreciation for martial arts, mental training, and mindfulness. I had an enjoyable conversation with my son afterward. Definitely a teachable moment. Shyamalan’s sensibility may not be enough to turn After Earth into a great (or even very good) film, but it does yield interesting — and at times strikingly realized — results.
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