Now streaming on: After Earth is a lovely surprise. This film from producer-costar Will Smith and director M. Night Shyamalan, about a father and son marooned on a hostile future earth, is a moral tale disguised as a sci-fi blockbuster. It s no classic, but it s a special movie: spectacular and wise.
Smith plays a veteran space soldier with the metaphorically overripe name of Cypher Raige. The actor s real-life son Jaden ( The Karate Kid, The Pursuit of Happyness ) plays Cypher s son Kitai, an aspiring warrior who just failed his cadet promotion test. The script, cowritten by Shyamalan and Gary Whitta, lays out a futureworld in brisk brushstrokes. Humans have fled a polluted Earth and built cities on the distant Nova Prime. Unfortunately, the planet was already claimed by another species that didn t take kindly to the colonists and created predators to kill them. The predators are called ursas. They look a like huge versions of Mike from Monsters, Inc., only dipped in acid an
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