Preachy, draggingly directed by M Night Shyamalan and just not much fun.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 5, 2017

After Earth unfortunately still finds M. Night Shyamalan plodding through another dull, lifeless movie.

| Original Score: C | Apr 17, 2015

The effects are second-hand stuff from Alien and Star Trek, spliced with Shyamalan's regular homilies on Personal Growth.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 2, 2014

As drama, After Earth offers no surprises; as action, it's rarely stimulating; as a parenting manual, it seems that Will has thrown Jaden into water that's a little too deep.

| May 2, 2014

After Earth is dragged down by, yes, Will Smith's apparent desire to share his boring concerns about parenthood with a blameless audience.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 8, 2013

The problem is that the film is chockful of clichés and stymied by production design and CG effects that look as if the worst of the Star Wars series was being devoutly copied.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 7, 2013

A sci-fi drama of such incredible boredom that your synapses will be turned to Bostik, featuring a triple-whammy of abysmal acting, directing and story.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 6, 2013

It's [Shyamalan's] most bearable film in years: a meagre feat, perhaps, but one we might as well be honest about.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 6, 2013

It is all as predictable as Christmas, assuming your Christmases, like mine, start feral before turning cosy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 6, 2013

An unqualified disaster in the purest sense.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 6, 2013

Most disappointing is the film's lack of ambition, as what could have been a sparky mainstream space opera becomes just another tedious jungle chase movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 4, 2013

Prepare to cringe and snicker whenever the characters are talking, but gasp when Shyamalan just shows amazing stuff.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 2, 2013

Jaden carries himself well in this futuristic adventure, which was filmed in a variety of lush locations around the globe.

| Original Score: 2.1/2 | May 31, 2013

The movie takes off from a concept as basic as a videogame, and it sticks to that concept, without surprise.

| Original Score: C+ | May 31, 2013

A film in which the text and subtext-an effortlessly gifted father presses his less-talented son to follow in his footsteps-are in perfect alignment. Alas, only in one of the two does the story end happily.

| May 31, 2013

By the standards of M. Night's Shyamalan's recent films, After Earth is surprisingly not horrible.

| May 31, 2013

It's no classic, but it's a special movie: spectacular and wise.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 31, 2013

It's impossible to take this movie seriously, certainly not as seriously as it takes itself.

| Original Score: C- | May 31, 2013

Even with his charismatic dad in his earpiece calling the shots, Jaden can't turn himself into a movie star by sheer force of Will.

| May 31, 2013

After Earth at least looks distinctive, and the movie's overall atmosphere of close-quarter jungle delirium is enhanced by the cramped, earth-toned interiors of spaceships, off-world colony condos and crashed cockpits.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 31, 2013