What if you were a highly successful actor and you wanted to boost your son's career in the same profession, but bless him, he's got all the talent of the third tree along in a kindergarten recital? Will Smith's gambit seems to be to play a character who is able to show little or no emotion, in the hope that this will detract attention to his son Jaden, who is unable to portray anything but. Jaden is a graduate of the school of 'if you need to act emotionally, pretend you've lost your cellphone'. He wanders through this movie fleeing from painfully rendered CGI creatures wearing a gape-mouthed 'duh' expression which makes him look more than a bit 'special needs'. All this not to mention the weird 'Southern American' accent everyone seems to have taken up in the future, and the creepy undertone of racism a la 'white people and things are bad, m'kay? It's a bad movie, just all over the place.
Review of After Earth
