A thousand years after humans have helped to ravage the earth into an uninhabitable mess, super hero Cypher Raige (Will Smith) and his son who struggles to live up to his father’s oversized reputation, Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith), are stranded on that very same earth.
The years with no humans has been good to the planet. It’s green and lush and full of life. Flocks of birds, a herd of land mammals, baboons, snakes, slugs, plant life nearly beyond description. And everything very deadly! Seems it’s evolved to destroy human life.
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan, it looks great. The technology all looks very organic and modeled after things from nature. The space ship llooks like a Stingray, ya know, the big fish things. The insides of the ship could have been the insides of an animal. There’s definitely some kind of environmental ideologies at play here.
It’s like maybe after we destroy this planet, we’ll learn to live in harmony with it.
I thought Jaden might have been a little too young for this role but he played it well enough and it fits with his struggles to keep up with is dad’s reputation. Just a bit of a stretch to believe he would even be considered for a position among these rough and tumble grown ass men.
Some folks dismiss this flick as a vanity project for Jaden. And I suppose it could be. Some folks take their kids to Disney World, Will Smith makes hundred million dollar sci-fi movies for his.
This is a decent flick, however. I put it up there with Oblivion that came out a bit earlier this year.
I’ll split a medium popcorn and drink with ya on this one. I may even bring in some goobers in my pocket.
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