After Earth and After the Critics

If I went by the movie critics in our state newspapers, USA Today, and Rotten Tomatoes, there's no way I would have gone to witness: AFTER EARTH, the new Will Smith sic-fi movie.  Everyone is calling it dull and slow.  Compared to Star Trek and Iron Man 3 the body count is simply too low, something doesn't explode every 30 seconds, and the hero's in this movie are too human.  Iy is against the movie laws to only have three or four fierce encounters.

That's why I liked it.  The story is that Humans abandoned earth 1,000 years ago and live on another similar planet. Will Smith is a famous General who has no fear. His son in the movie is played by his son. The boy wants to follow in Dad'd foot steps and Dad finally decides to let him go on a training mission to another planet. On the trip the star ship hits an astroid field and crashes on a forbidden planet (Earth).  All the wild life on earth has evolved into human hating adversaries. Note: This is a rare movie that portrays earth as a lush planet of trees, streams, herds of buffaloes, etc.  Its just that the Apes, Eagles, etc. are mean.

In the crash Will is injured and the son has to fight the elements and travel to part of the wreckage that has the emergency beacon.

The movie is about Father and son reuniting, facing fear, overcoming past incidents and survival.  It is NOT a crazy fast action movie, though it spooked me quite enough.

I liked this movie a lot.  I give it ***stars   2013 movie 21

Critics are weird!