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   After Earth   
   18 Oct 13 21:12:49   
   
   From: qwrtz123@gmail.com   
      
   After Earth   
   2013  PG-13  100 minutes   
      
   A thousand years in the future, Gen. Cypher Raige and his young son, Kitai,   
   crash-land their crippled ship on the long-abandoned, desolate Earth. With his   
   father near death, Kitai sets out to find a beacon that will save them from   
   certain doom.   
      
   Cast:Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Isabelle Fuhrman, Kristofer Hivju, Gabriel   
   Caste, Zoë Kravitz, Sophie Okonedo, David Denman, Sacha Dhawan, Lincoln Lewis   
   Director:M. Night Shyamalan   
      
      
   Fail.  This movie has a lot of good idea, and the fx and cinematography are   
   well done.  Even the father/son survival bonding plot isn't that bad.  But the   
   acting, oh help.  Both Smiths have zero emotional depth, specially Jaden who   
   goes thru the whole    
   film in a state of petulant anger.  Finally the details break down; the alien   
   monster wouldn't last five seconds against a marine with a machinegun (but in   
   the high tech future there are no guns), there's a bird that um yah, and Kitai   
   has to climb a    
   volcano to get above the ionosphere.     
      
   Worth watch if you can get past the dialog.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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