After Earth

If you had high expectations about this movie maybe they are not really founded.
This is just an average sci-fi film that tells the story of Kitai, a young boy (Jaden Smith), who gets stranded with his father, some sort of legendary figure, General Cypher Raige (Will Smith), in a planet that is full of deadly creatures. Cypher's legs are broken and the star ship in which they were traveling broke into two pieces after going through a meteor shower in space. It turns out that Cypher is bleeding and in order to save his father Kitai has to go look for the tail section of the spaceship that landed kilometers away from where they ended up. Luckily Kitai has received heavy military training and is somewhat ready for the challenges ahead in a planet full of threats, a planet that used to belong to mankind and has remained abandoned for a long time. That planet is called Earth (so predictable!). 
It turns out that the once overcrowded planet had to be abandoned for a planet in another solar system. In this other world, humans thrive in a spartan-styled society and have encountered and entered in conflict with an alien race that in order to decimate humans has released on Nova Prime (the new planet) a series of powerful beasts called  Ursas that attack when they feel fear and one of them was on board the same ship where Cypher and Kitai were traveling.
The story is good but nothing "out of this world". I don´t think the special effects were spectacular but I loved the conception of this new world, with its new but simple architecture that looked truly unique and authentic. There is not much to say about the music that was only acceptable, but the acting is consistent. The good thing about having a father working along his son is that none has to make a great effort to pretend to be what they already are in real life. Still it is a decent sci-fi thriller that could have been much more considering that it was directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
Three stars out of five for this one.

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