
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 th... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Reno Gazette-JournalForrest HartmanWriter-director M. Night Shyamalan, who hadn't made a truly great film since 2002, returns to form with this exciting and well-paced adventure |
| New York Magazine/VultureDavid EdelsteinWere Shyamalan and Smith deliberately invoking the terror — now omnipresent in urban African-American communities — of lethal asthma attacks in children? I’m not sure how I feel about something so real and so wrenching in the context of a Grade D (unfit for human habitation) sci-fi picture like After Earth. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerIt’s impossible to take this movie seriously, certainly not as seriously as it takes itself. |
| Fresno BeeRick BentleyAny tension is lost in the director's achingly slow pacing. |
| HitFixDrew McWeeny... the film offers some very knowing examples of the way both parents and children have to adjust their thinking over the course of their relationship, wrapped up in a visually dynamic world that simply makes the stakes feel more urgent... |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfIt's really the helmer's iffy creative decisions that keep After Earth more of a wince-inducing drag than the heart-squeezing, mind-blowing sci-fi adventure it desires to be. |
| RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzAfter Earth is ultimately too thin of a story to support all of its grandiose embellishments, but so what? It's better to try to pack every moment with beauty and feeling than to shrug and smirk. The film takes the characters and their feelings seriously, and lets its actors give strong, simple performances. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid Nusair...a step in the right direction for beleaguered filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan... |
| Cinemalogue.comTodd JorgensonAt its core, the movie is a formulaic coming-of-age story about a precocious son trying to prove his worth to his overbearing absentee father, as well as a predictable tale of wilderness survival against the odds. |
| Metro Times (Detroit, MI)Jeff MeyersIs there a more satisfying career implosion than that of M. Night Shyamalan? |