A
neat concept, but terrible, terrible execution. Terrible.
So
it's a thousand years after humans left Earth for reasons. Then Will
Smith and his son (who is just as terrible as he is) come back or
crash or something, and everything is terrible and they want to
leave. I wanted to leave, too. The moral or the story is not to force
your kids to do what you've failed at. Will Smith can be funny, but
he can't do serious very well, and he sucked even more than usual in
this. His kid did even worse, but in a similar way.
The
movie is both dumb and dull. The effects are flashy but terrible for
the year of release. The plot is fairly non-existent, with very
little happening for the middle portion of the film. We start with a
cool crash sequence, but then that's about it. “Everything has
evolved to kill humans” Smith says, but why? Humans haven't been on
the planet since the 21st century, right? So... what? And
how did all the animal and plant life evolve so much in a thousand
years? Shouldn't it take at least fifty times that long for them to
be even noticeably different? What? What's happening?!
I'm
mostly curious about the backstory of this one (oh, I'm done with
talking about the content - it's dull and superficially pretentious
and you shouldn't watch it). Did Will Smith make his son do this, or
did he sort of let him do whatever he wanted? (the plot certainly
feels like a child wrote it) Was his son at all on board, or is he
angry at his father and perhaps being shit on purpose? I'd watch a
making-of documentary about this film (so long as it was made by a
third party and was less than twenty minutes long). Whatever the case
it's messed up and weird, and I hate that someone like Will Smith has
enough money and influence in Hollywood to do something like this. Terrible.
I said the word "terrible" seven times in this review, which may be a record.
After Earth: 8.2