Certainly humans are in another solar system now, but in the same galaxy? Where exactly? How did they get wherever they are? Was it more cost effective and technologically feasible to move an entire civilization billions of miles than to repair the home planet? The Earth, we learn, was abandoned by humans many light years ago after they ruined its ecosystem, resettling on the generically named planet Nova Prime. The challenges to logic begin with the premise, provided at the beginning in flashback and voiceover. "After Earth" can be enjoyed on the reflexive level of people being chased by scary, chasey, drooly creatures, but rationally it's about as cloudy as a nebula. While both are questionable at times, even poorly accomplished at others, they exist in the context of a story that's much more problematic. There's been a lot of criticism directed at the Smiths' acting in this movie, especially at Jaden, 14, along with complaints about the film's special effects. You're in "After Earth," starring Will Smith and his son Jaden as a father and son stranded on a hostile planet after their spaceship hits interstellar turbulence. When the main character befriends a gigantic carnivorous bird in the science fiction film you're watching, you know you're in a galaxy far, far away from sound judgment. Night Shyamalan and his son Jaden (pictured) to create a sci-fi movie set on a planet that has evolved to kill humans - and surprise, it's not entirely believable. Will Smith (as the unintentionally funny "Gen.
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