A crash landing leaves teenager Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) and his legendary father Cypher (Will Smith) stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher critically injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help, facing uncharted terrain, evolved animal species that now rule the planet, and an unstoppable alien creature that escaped during the crash. Father and son must learn to work together and trust one another if they want any chance of returning home.
I called this one a stinker the moment after I saw the trailer. As much as Will Smith wishes it, he cannot WILL his son into being a movie star. I don't know what their family dynamic is but it seems like an intense amount of pressure to succeed by the younger Smith. I should look on this as a good thing that a father and son found a project to work on together.
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The original script was about a military man and his son lost in the Alaskan wilderness and threatened by wolves. Somewhere along the way someone said; "Let's make it a sci-fi movie!" so they tacked on the sci-fi setting without really thinking it through.
And with all that, M Night still put out another flop. He needs to find a high bridge to jump off because he isn't ever getting near another movie camera.
I read that same story MD, and it turns out that the "someone" was Will Smith who receives story credit because he wanted his son to be the star of a movie that would be "Big".
So it seems like M. Night was more of a director for hire in this case. Though if Will wanted his son to shine in a big movie I don't think M. Night would be a good choice for director as he has the tendency to direct his actors to speak in soft, stoic whispers rather than actually act. Then again you'd think that if Jaden grew up amongst Hollywood royalty that he would be overflowing with acting chops that don't appear to have emerged yet.
I remember I saw a trailer for this and another movie that looked almost exactly the same. I forget what the title of that one was.
I was not great, but not that bad. Will Smith took a huge backseat for his son. But I will go as far as to say I enjoyed it. Seeing it at Midnight opening night with my oldest son, sure didn't hurt my opinion any.
That other movie you are thinking about Nathan was OBLIVION which was a stinker of the first order but like Tom Cruise who stars in that one. I can at least tolerate Will Smith for the length of a movie.
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