Regardless of the potential here, a neutral, lifeless tone prevails over every aspect, from the direction to the acting to the special FX, but especially the dull script by M. Night Shyamalan and Gary Whitta.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 6, 2022

“After Earth” is a sleep-inducing bore that hasn’t the material or performances to rise above its faults.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

This film is sometimes-brutal survival flick that doubles as a closet-clearing of emotion for a critically injured father and his petrified son.

| Feb 11, 2022

The film's potent scenes of lachrymosity make the voyage worthwhile, at least until the unimaginative monster shows up.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 3, 2020

An indecipherably inert action flick sees out-of-form director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) stuck in the same snoozy rut as his worst film, the notorious The Last Airbender.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 7, 2020

Will Smith and M. Night Shyamalan both at the peak of their respective "lost in the woods" career period, After Earth is a complete disaster.

| Original Score: F | Sep 2, 2020

The memory of After Earth is so painful that I still feel like my eyes are burning.

| Original Score: .5/4.0 | Sep 1, 2020

I'm not sure where to begin with this movie.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 27, 2020

After Earth is an ok film providing that the logic meter in your brain has been switched off. Otherwise don't rush yourself to watch it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2020

The cumulative result of all of these disasters is a weak, ugly, forgettable science fiction movie.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 9, 2020

In the hands of another screenwriter and with other actors, perhaps it would have inspired Shyamalan to do more serious work. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 16, 2020

This is just one extended bore fest, and everyone involved appears to be on autopilot.

| Original Score: D | Apr 10, 2019

After Earth might signal a new future, in which the wunderkind filmmaker can't find financing any longer.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 21, 2018

After Earth, a witless, banal, tedious, melodramatic special-effects fest that is disappointing from the opening sequence until the credits role.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 21, 2018

Awkwardly probing, After Earth feels like a cinematic homework assignment for Smith's teen-aged charge Jaden with Shyamalan's requested presence as the hired tutor catering to the movie's arbitrary, surrealistic vision.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 17, 2018

At least something like Battlefield Earth is unintentionally hilarious; After Earth doesn't even have the dignity to be laughably bad.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Nov 1, 2018

A listlessly written, lackadaisically executed story which can't seem to do much more than march through its preordained paces.

| Original Score: C | Oct 31, 2018

With little in common with Shyamalan's other films, it's difficult to compare this to his other projects except to say that if he was trying something different, it didn't work.

| Oct 25, 2018

After Earth stays grounded, and manages to tell a pretty decent story.

| May 22, 2018

The future-based characters seem to bear no relation at all to actual living, laughing, arguing human beings.

| Apr 17, 2018