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| Year of first release: 2013 | |
| Director: M. Night Shyamalan (The 6th Sense, Unbreakable) | |
| Actors: Jaden Smith, David Denman, Will Smith (Men in Black 1-3) | |
| Country: USA | |
| Genre: SF | |
| Conditions of visioning: 24.10.2013, Blu-ray, Home cinema | |
| Synopsis: 1000 years after humans have abandonned Earth, a father and his son (Smith & Smith) crash-land on the planet on which everything has evolved to kill humans. | |
| Review: This synopsis, the usual one for this movie and also what you see in the trailer, is not fair to what acually happens. The story (created by Will Smith to play with his real-life son Jaden) is definitely one of father-son relationship. Everything around is just incidents that help bring them closer. The synopsis also doesn't mention the Ursa, beasts created by an alien spieces to track and kill humans by sensing their fear. As in all M. Night Shyamalan movies actually not much happens. The number of characters is very limited (in this case limited to two during most of the movie). I was expecting to be impressed by landscape images as Earth is supposed to be like a third character in the movie (and the Blu-ray was printed from a 4k master), but I was dissapointed. Also as usual Shyamalan is poor in shooting action scenes (I have noticed that especially in The Last Air Bender). I learned by watching the making-of that the filmmakers wanted to make a realistic movie about the future of Mankind, and they are glad to have succeeded. I strongly dissagree. Even if the production design looks good (architecture, daily-life objects design...), the science is very wrong, as if they didn't even a scientific advisor on the set: 1000 years is far too short for Earth to evolve that much, in space 2000 km is not a long distance, visible ionic layers, an animal that scents fear but doesn't have eyes, ... I don't mind a SF movie taking liberties with science, but then it shouldn't pretent to be scientifically accurate. So what to remember from this movie? Jaden Smith plays well as we follow his evolution throughout the film. Some scenes and shots are good-looking. Sometimes I have the feeling that Shyamalan built the whole movie around those shots he has in his heads, so that the intermediate scenes feel empty. This story of Mankind in danger actually makes me want to see Ender's Game currently in theaters. |
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Rating: 5 /10
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Sunday, October 27, 2013
After Earth (2013)
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I saw this movie on the 26.10.2013. The story is indeed very focused on the father son relationship. The acting of Jaden Smith is excellent most likely because he had his father with him, so that he could get more easilty experienced scenes in mind. But it is then also limited to the fight against fear (Danger is real, Fear is a choice). I had fun with the plenty of SFX that must look even better in 3D, in particular the progress of the ice front and the Sun front.
ReplyDeleteIn HD the SFX look good but not that good. Contrarily to many recent SF movies, this one was not presented in 3D.
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