Monkey See Summer Movie Preview: Kids, Theft, The Apocalypse And Joss Whedon While he travels the universe, stoically doing brave stuff, his son Kitai (the younger Smith) is at Ranger Corps school, trying to become just like dreary old Dad. So the only people who can best then are those who are literally fearless, like Gen. The Ursa are blind, but they can smell human dread. Their new home is hardly congenial, being populated by people-eating Ursa - creatures that aren't a form of bear they're the usual space-monster hybrid of squid, cockroach and pit bull. Set 1,000 years in the future, the story begins long after humans have fled an environmentally trashed Earth. He'll start losing viewers with his wooden opening narration. And Jaden Smith, in the movie's tissue-thin principal role, is called on to act. Night Shyamalan, auteur of twisty The Sixth Sense, struggles with a surprise-free plot and a trial-by-fire moral so earnest it suggests a circa-1944 World War II flick. Will Smith portrays a stern outer space hero devoid of the bantering wit and easygoing demeanor of his trademark roles. Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence and some disturbing imagesĪ disastrous father-son endeavor about a calamitous father-son expedition, After Earth doesn't play to the strengths of any of its major participants.
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