After Earth
M. Night Shyamalan directs this sci-fi thriller starring Will Smith and his son Jaden as a father and son who crash land on Earth over 1,000 years after humans abandoned the planet. General Cypher Raige (Smith) is an important figure in the new civilisation humans have built on Nova Prime following the mass departure from Earth centuries before.
After a lengthy tour of duty, Cypher is looking forward to spending some time with his 13-year-old son Kitai (Jaden Smith). However, when Cypher and Kitai's spacecraft is damaged in an asteroid storm, forcing them to crash land on the abandoned Earth, the necessity of father-son bonding is accelerated. With Cypher critically injured from the crash, Kitai must find a way to signal for help on a planet reclaimed by nature, ruled by hyper-evolved animals and containing the alien creature who has escaped from the wreckage of their craft.
Special Features:
- Interactive Menus
- Enhanced WS tv
- Other Documentary: ‘A Father's Legacy’, ‘1000 Years in 300 Seconds’, ‘The Nature of the Future’, ‘Building a Future’, ‘Pre-Visualising the Future’, ‘The Animatics of After Earth’
Critic Reviews:
- " Exciting sci-fi action and warm father-son bonding. " – Common Sense Media Editors
- " A beautiful bit of world-building that – if you're not chronically opposed to Will Smith and his kid – will transport you to the kind of adventure that I know I imagined in the backyard when I was younger than Jaden Smith. " – Luke Y. Thompson
- " A simplistic, father-son morality play strictly for little kids and diehard Will and Jaden Smith fans. Destined to be added to the pantheon of inadvertently-funny blaxploitation flicks with a devoted cult following. " – Kam Williams
Note: This is an imported product that has been officially rated by the Film and Video Labelling Body of New Zealand.