Edge of Tomorrow Movie Review

Edge of Tomorrow

                                                                    

Edge of Tomorrow is a science fiction action thriller movie released in June, 2014. This movie is written by Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth and directed by Doug Liman. The screenplay of this movie is adopted from the Japanese novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. The major characters of Edge of Tomorrow are played by Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton and Brendan Gleeson. Edge of Tomorrow is Tom Cruise's next movie after Oblivion, which was also a science fiction.

Edge of Tomorrow tells the story of future, when the planet Earth is attacked by some aliens. An untrained army officer is put in the front line of the war against those aliens, who finds himself stuck in a time loop where the time goes back and starts from the previous day every time he is killed. This special gift is the last hope for human to defeat the aliens.

Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt at a scene of Edge of Tomorrow

Plot:

At the beginning of Edge of Tomorrow, we see that some aliens have invaded the earth and human are fighting them in Europe. Major Cage is an U.S. Army's public relation officer who has no training or experience of combat. He is called by an army general in Europe and ordered to to cover a fight from the front line.

Understanding the danger of this job, Cage refuses to take the order. When he is pressured, he threatens the general indirectly. As a result, Cage gets arrested and then knocked down. He wakes up at the Heathrow airport, where the human troops are assembled to make the attack on aliens tomorrow. In the meantime, Cage is plotted as a deserter private and is forced to join a group who will fight the aliens with the help of some robotic attachments.

In the battlefield, Cage finds that the aliens were informed about their attack and the people keeps being slaughtered. The aliens has tricked the humans to use their final force and the humans are surely going to lose the war. After killing a special alien, Cage also gets killed. Then the strange thing happens, Cage find himself waking up again at the Heathrow airport. Then the same thing keeps happening again and again, he getting killed in the battlefield and waking up again at the same place. He tries to tell others about it, but nobody believes.

One time at the battle, Cage finds a war hero named Rita. She tells him to find her when he wakes up again. Cage does so and tells her about it. Rita believes her because the same thing has happened to her also but she has lost it. With the help of a friend, they find that Cage's ability has made him the key to locate the alien brain and to kill them. So she train Cage to survive at the battlefield and after a huge number of trials, finally Kate and Cage heads to find the alien's brain. But no matter what they do, they both cannot reach there. Cage reaches there alone and finds that the aliens are misleading them.

So they now must change their approach. They try to retrieve a machine from that army general. But they get caught before they return. With the machine, they locate the alien brain in Paris. But due to blood loss and insertion, Cage loses his power to turn back time. So Cage and Kate have only one chance left to kill the aliens before the aliens wipe out human race from earth on the battle next day.

My reviews about the movie Edge of Tomorrow:

First of all, Edge of Tomorrow seemed as a thrilling and fantastic movie.

The plot of Edge of Tomorrow is intriguing and innovative. It is good enough to keep you thrilled and attached to the movie from the beginning to the end. The plot regularly keep on changing the direction, so whenever you will feel that you have figured out what is going to happen next, the plot will take a turn somewhere else. But its true that sometimes seeing the same thing over and over again for the time loop may feel boring, but that feeling should not last for more than a few minutes. The ending of Edge of Tomorrow is also pretty predictable. We expected a better ending. The cinematography of this movie will seem like a pure beauty, like the movie Oblivion.

The direction of Edge of Tomorrow was fantastic, but the screenplay didn't seem completely flawless. We'll get back to that in a short while.

The casting of this movie was also brilliant. Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt seemed as the best fits for their characters and both of them has acted awesomely well in Edge of Tomorrow. No wonder Tom Cruise is one of the kings of science fictions for all the beautiful movies he has given us. The acting of the other characters were also good. Same goes for the dialogues.

The music, sound effects and the special effects will also seem brilliant in Edge of Tomorrow. The aliens looked stunning and the special effects of their fighting seemed beautiful. I wish this movie had more screen time with them. The locations, set designs, lighting, costumes and the make-ups were also perfect.

Several times in Edge of Tomorrow, it may seem like it has some plottholes or discontinuity, but most of them will be solved soon. But one of the missing parts is, after taking something from the joint force army general and then having an accident, how Kate escaped unharmed and could free Cage so easily. Same confusion stays if you think, after escaping once and then attending some crime, how they could again enter the army base to reach to their team. And the ending was dramatically too good for a movie like this, where everything fitted perfectly. So the only (a little) weak part of Edge of Tomorrow was its screenplay.

Edge of Tomorrow has no nude scenes and the gore scenes are avoided nicely, so its safe to watch this movie with kids.

So, finally, I greatly enjoyed watching Edge of Tomorrow. Even with the small flaws at the plot, it should feel like a great piece of work. I will definitely recommend this movie to all movie lovers, especially the science fiction fans. Edge of Tomorrow is a must see for you.

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier Movie Review

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

                                                                                                        

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a superhero science fiction action thriller movie released in 2014. This movie is based on the character created by Marvel Comics. It is written by Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely and Ed Brubaker and directed by Anthony and Joe Russo. Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the sequel of Captain America: The First Avenger and the story continues directly from the prequel to the sequel. The leading characters of Captain America: The Winter Soldiers are played by Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Cobie Smulders, Frank Grillo, Emily VanCamp, Robert Redford, and Samuel L. Jackson.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier tells the story of the time when Captain America finds that S.H.I.E.L.D. is infiltrated by Hydra. He doesn't know who can be trusted around him, but feels the need to save S.H.I.E.L.D, even by the price of his own life.

 

A Scene from the movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Plot:

The story of Captain America: The Winter Soldier starts at two years after the big fight of The Avengers at New York. Steve (Captain America) is trying to get used to the modern lifestyle. Once he is sent to a mission by S.H.I.E.L.D. to rescue some high ranked agents from terrorist. In that mission, Steve finds agent Romanoff (Black Widow) trying to steal some data from the terrorist with a flash drive.

Steve comes back to director Fury in S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarter. He then learns about the project Insight of S.H.I.E.L.D., which is designed to to eliminate all terrorism threats from earth by using satellite controlled guns. Fury fails to retrieve data from the flash drive of Romanoff and gets suspicious. He is then attacked by the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, who try to kill him. Finally Fury manages to take shelter at Steve's house.

After coming home, Steve finds Fury there. Fury hands him the flash drive and warns him not to trust anyone. Then Fury gets shot by an assassin. Steve chases the assassin, but he escapes. Steve also finds that his next door neighbour is an undercover secret agent, who is appointed by Fury to protect Steve. On the next day, Fury dies in the surgery table. Romanoff tells Steve about the assassin, who is known as “The Winter Soldier”.

S.H.I.E.L.D. high official Pierce calls Steve and asks him about his last conversation with Fury. Steve doesn't cooperate. Then the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents tries to capture Steve, but he escapes. He then meets Romanoff, who helps him to escape from the search. Their flash drive leads them to an abandoned bunker, which is the birthplace of S.H.I.E.L.D. There, with that flash drive, they find the existence of Zola (a villain from the prequel). Zola tells them how Hydra has infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. Steve and Romanoff escapes from there just before a missile shot by S.H.I.E.L.D. destroys that bunker.

They then goes to Steve's friend Sam's (Falcon) house, who, after learning all these, agrees to cooperate with them. They then interrogates another S.H.I.E.L.D. high official, and learns that Hydra, by infiltrating S.H.I.E.L.D., is planning to kill all of its enemies by using Project Insight.

On their way back from there, Steve, Romanoff and Sam again get attacked by the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. This time, the Winter Soldier is leading the attach. At one time, Steve recognizes the Winter Soldier as Bucky, his best friend, who was apparently killed in a mission with him. They get caught by the S.H.I.E.L.D., but a good agent who is not a member of Hydra, saves them and brings them back to a secret location.

Steve (Captain America) now knows Hydra's plan. But can he stop it? He knows, with the help of Sam and Romanoff, he has to stop Hydra from using Project Insight, even at the price of his own life. But how will he deal with Bucky, his best friend? What can they do when the top most agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. are members of Hydra? Can dead Fury come to any help? Let's watch the movie to know the answers.

My review about the movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier:

First of all, I really liked the movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

The plot of this movie was great. It will seem extraordinary good considering its a superhero movie. On most of the superhero movies, for example, The Amazing Spiderman, the plot stays very simple. But Captain America: The Winter Soldier has a complex plot with some political involvements, which make the movie deep and interesting. Although the ending is predictable, but that will not make you feel boring. The direction and screenplay of this movie will also seem fabulous.

All of the main and side characters of Captain America: The Winter Soldier are well reputed artists and everyone have acted well here. The dialogues are also great. You will find no imperfection with the make ups and the costume designs. Here the costume of Captain America is a little different from the prequel, but it looks nice. The lighting, set designs, camera works and special effects were very impressive. The music and sound effects were also good.

The only thing the director missed to show in Captain America: The Winter Soldier was, as it was a story after two years from the New York incident, why Captain America didn't call for The Avengers when all of their lives were at risk.

There was no scene in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which can restrict the kids from watching this movie.

Now, if you haven't already watched Captain America: The Winter Soldier, then I have two tips for you. First, don't stop watching when the end credits start. It has two in credit sequences, which will give a teaser for the next Captain America or The Avengers movie. Second, remember that this movie is full of Easter eggs, that is, stuffs hidden throughout the movie. You will be able to find most of them if you are a big fan of the comics. But if you are not, please do a google search on “Captain America: The Winter Soldier Easter eggs” after finishing the movie (as most of them will have spoilers). Even if you are not a fan of the comics of this series, but still knowing the background plots or predictions will surely amaze you.

After seeing one of the end credit sequence, I got happy to guess that, there could be a chance to bring the X-men characters with The Avengers. But after reading about the Easter eggs, I found that it is never going to happen, as the two company holds the copyright of those two sets of characters. How sad!

So, overall, Captain America: The Winter Soldier was a great movie. You will like it even if you are not a big fan of superhero movies. I will definitely recommend watching it to all movie fans.

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The Watch Movie Review

The Watch
                                                

The Watch is a comedy science fiction fantasy movie released in 2012. This movie was previously known as Neighborhood Watch. It is written by Jared Stern, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and directed by Akiva Schaffer. The main characters of the movie The Watch are played by Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade, Rosemarie DeWitt, Will Forte and Billy Crudup.

The Watch is about a group of men who forms a neighborhood watch club when one of their colleagues is brutally murdered. Then they find the existence of aliens on earth and learn about the aliens’ plan to invade earth.

A scene from the movie The Watch

Plot:

The Watch starts with showing the life of Evan, who is the senior manager of a local superstore of Glenview, Ohio. One of his colleagues get American citizenship one day and on that very night, gets brutally killed by some strange thing while he was on duty on that superstore.

Evan learns about the murder on the next day when he goes to the office. The police don’t seem much eager to solve the case of the murder. So, on the break of a local popular game, Evan asks the people from the neighborhood to join him in his club that will protect the neighborhood and find the murderer. People also don’t seem eager to his request.

So at the desired day, only three other men come to form the club. One of them was Bob, who is facing problem regarding the relation with his daughter. Then there is Franklin, who wanted to join the local police force and got rejected. The last one is Jamarcus who is recently divorced.

They name their club as The Neighborhood Watch. They make their jerseys, post the flyers with Evan’s number and start patrolling the neighborhood at night. They also have fun among themselves, which annoys Evan. At first, the local people and the police take them as a joke.

But people keep on getting murdered on the neighborhood. One night, while patrolling, Evan hits something with his car. The thing leaves some strange body parts and some green liquid. The Watch also finds a metal ball nearby, which has an extraordinary power to blow up things.

Evan and Bob share their personal life problems with each other. Evan is infertile, but cannot tell it to his wife. Bob urges him that he must admit it to his wife.

One night, following a call from a man who reports unusual noise around his house, The Watch finds an alien. They hit the alien and bring that into Bob’s house. The alien wakes up there and then escapes with the metal ball, but tells them that the aliens are now living among the humans. So The Watch starts to look for aliens disguised as humans.

They suspects Evan’s neighbor as an alien. At one night, they go to that neighbor’s house to investigate. There Bob learns that his daughter is going to a special party. To stop her, Bob leaves with Franklin. That neighbor catches Evan and Jamarcus and he invites them inside. After going there, they find that they are mistaken and then Evan leaves.

When Bob returns, Evan accuses Bob for his disobedience. Bob and Franklin then throw Evan out of The Watch for his autocracy. Evan returns home and admits his condition to wife. His wife accepts it and later helps The Watch. Then Jamarcus comes to Evan’s house.

Next, The Neighborhood Watch meets again in Bob’s house. Jamarcus tells them about the plan of the aliens, that is, the aliens are soon going to invade and destroy the earth. So the fate of mankind is now depending on the actions of The Neighborhood Watch.

My review about the movie The Watch:

First of all, I didn’t like The Watch.

The plot of The Watch was not bad, although it didn’t seem something extraordinary. The idea of comedy with mixture of sci-fi, horror and fantasy seemed innovative. The ending was predictable, but the identity of the alien disguised as human will surprise you. Other than that, there was no interesting twist in the plot. The direction seemed good.

The weakest point of The Watch was the poor screenplay. The screenplay has failed to make this movie interesting or funny at all. From the beginning of the movie, you will understand it as a comedy one (you can also predict it from the casting), but the comedy elements of The Watch were not good at all. The use of humor was not entertaining enough and I doubt that any scene of the whole movie will be able to make you laugh. Just a better humor could make this movie far better. The characters themselves and the interaction between them were good, but character developments of some of the major characters were poor. You may find nothing in The Watch, which may keep you attached to the film. At some parts, it may seem boring.

The casting of The Watch is very good and all the major characters have acted well. The dialogues were good, but they could be funnier. Most of the humor of this movie comes from dialogues, where most of them are adult humor. The make-ups and the costumes were good too, especially the make-ups of the aliens.

The special effects were used at a very minimal level. More use of special effect could make The Watch more interesting. The music, sound effects, lighting, camera works and the set design were also good.

The Watch had excessive use of adult humor, some nude scenes and some gore scenes, which makes it not appropriate for kids.

So, finally, I didn’t enjoy watching The Watch at all. Most likely, it will not be able to satisfy you when you look for comedy, science fiction or horror elements. By seeing a little better than average IMDB rating of 5.7 (while I’m writing this review) may make you think its overrated there. I will not recommend watching The Watch to any movie lover.

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Robocop Movie Review

Robocop

                                  

Robocop is a science fiction action movie released in 2014. This movie is the remake of the classic sci-fi movie of the same name from 1987 and a reboot of that Robocop series.  The screenplay of the new Robocop is written by Joshua Zetumer and the movie is directed by José Padilha. The major characters of this film are played by Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman,  Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson, Abbie Cornish, Jackie Earle Haley, and Michael K. Williams.

Robocop tells the story of 2028, where a badly wounded police officer is given robotic body parts to keep him alive, which makes him half man and half robot and turns him into a super cop.

A scene from the movie Robocop

Plot:

Omnicorp is very determined to make the use of drones and automatic robots popular for inland use for public security, which is now already deployed in foreign country. They also have a spokesperson who lectures about its benefits on the TV, but the use of this kind of equipments are prohibited by Dreyfus Act. So they are looking for a perfect candidate, who will have some damaged body parts replaced by machines, which will make a positive impression among people about machines for security.

In the meantime, detective Alex Murphy and his partner are following a lead to catch a powerful crime boss. They are on disguise, but some corrupt police officer alerts the crime boss. It starts a gun fight, by which, Alex’s partner becomes badly injured. Alex becomes more determined to catch that boss, which makes him a target for them.

Alex is living a happy life with his wife and son, and one day, the crime boss’s men set a bomb in Alex’s car. The bomb goes off and Alex becomes very critically injured.

Alex seems like the perfect candidate of Omnicorp, so their lead scientist Norton convinces Alex’s wife to replace Alex’s damaged organs with robotic parts to save his life. She gives permission and Alex becomes the Robocop.

After waking up, Alex cannot accept his new body, but soon, after hearing everything, Alex accepts it. He is given arms and training by Omnicorp’s military technician and Norton. He also visits his family after he gets a little comfortable with his new body.

The military technician doubts Alex’s ability to fight compared with the other full robots. In a simulation, he is proved right. Norton then makes so modifications in Alex’s brain, for which, when he fights, the computer takes over Alex’s decisions and makes him a faster, better soldier. A real fighting test is again conducted by Omnicorp between Alex and the technician’s robot team, where Alex proves that he is more efficient than both of men and machines.

Before an event, where Alex is brought in front of public for the first time as Robocop, Alex starts to have emotional problems. To solve it, Norton lowers Alex’s dopamine levels, which makes him almost emotionless. Alex performs his duties perfectly there, but ignores his family.

As Alex joins the police force again, he becomes the super cop and successfully brings the crime rate to a very low level. But he keeps ignoring his family.

At one time, his wife faces him and tells him the condition of his son. At first, Alex becomes confused, but soon his mind takes over the decision making computer parts and leaving everything behind, he starts to solve his own case, where he was attacked.

He attacks the headquarter of that crime boss and kills him. He then kills the corrupt police officer. When Alex was about to attach the police chief for her corruption, he is turned off by Omnicorp.

The Omnicorp CEO uses Alex’s success to show his company’s credibility and a repeal agaist the Dreyfus law rises. Meanwhile, Alex’s wife tells the press openly that she wants to see her husband. Feeling that Alex’s presence is no more important, the Omnicorp CEO decides to turn Alex off. But before that, Norton reaches to Alex, wakes him and tells him everything. After knowing the facts, Alex feels betrayed and heads for the CEO of Omnicorp.

My reviews about the movie Robocop:

I saw the old Robocop movies long time ago and I don’t remember them well. But I was a big fan of the Robocop TV series. Comparing with them, I didn’t like the new Robocop movie much. But considering other things, this one is still a good movie.

The plot of Robocop was good, but it seemed too congested to me. A lot of stuffs were clustered in one movie, where none of the robot versus human conflict, the crime fighting or the fight against the Omnicorm became very prominent. I think the direction was good, but the screenplay was far from what it could be. The director could focus on any of them and could make that prominent to make this movie better.

I think in this movie, the Robocop lacked the personality what he had in the 1987. Seeing the computer-decision-making part taking over while Robocop fights was not a thing I liked. This movie also had a good number of villains. But one of the major villains, the mob boss, was killed in just a few minutes fight. The other villain, the technician of Omnicorp was also not very major. But the thing I hated most in the movie was seeing the Robocop without his robotic body. I don’t know why the director had to show that several times.

When I first saw the trailer, I didn’t like the black suit of Robocop, specially comparing with the old silver colored suit. But in the movie, the suits looked modern, high tech and pretty cool, suited better in this time. It looked even better with his motorbike. This Robocop is also more technologically advanced than the old one. The old Robocop had some pointy thing coming out of his hand, which he used to communicate, to hack computer and to charge his batteries. But in this movie, how he is getting power is not shown.

The acting of all the major characters in Robocop were good. Same goes for the dialogues, make ups and costumes. The special effects were also very good. But I think a more important role played by Samuel L. Jackson could make this movie better.  

There was no nude or gore scene in Robocop, so you can safely watch it with kids.

So, finally, I think Robocop is a good movie. The old Robocop fans may or may not get disappointed by watching this one, but everyone else should like it. But as a fan of the old ones, I think, even if not worse, the new Robocop remake does not give any improvement over the old one either. But I will still recommend watching the Robocop to everyone, as it seemed like a good movie. And this movie ends with a lot of potential kept for the sequel, so I’m eagerly waiting for that.

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After Earth Movie Review

After Earth
                                              

After Earth is a science fiction adventure action thriller movie released in 2013. This movie is written by Will Smith, Gary Whitta and M. Night Shyamalan and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. The two main characters of After Earth are played by Will Smith and his son, Jaden Smith. The other artists of this movie are Sophie Okonedo, Zoë Kravitz, Sacha Dhawan and Chris Geere. This release date of this movie is close to Tom Cruise's Oblivion.

After earth tells the story of the future world, where a space ship crash lands on planet earth, living only two survivors. One survivor, the captain of the ship is severely injured, so its all up to the other one, his young son, to find a beacon in the hostile environment and send signal for help.

Will Smith and Jaden Smith in After Earth

Plot:

After Earth tells the story of future, when humans have abandoned the earth and have moved to another planet. But they are not alone on that planet. There are some aliens, who start to haunt and kill human. Technically, those aliens can’t see. But they can sense human’s fear, so they hunt by this. Humans are always on a fight with theses aliens. The Ranger Corps are leading the fight, and General Cypher Raige a renowned soldier of them. He is fearless about these aliens, so to them, he is invisible. This technique is called ghosting
.

Cypher has a young son named Kitai who is getting training to get in The Ranger Corps. In one examination, although he has very good result in theoretical part, he fails for his bad performance in the field.  That was the day when Cypher is returning from one of his journeys.

Kitai was feeling down, so his mother suggests Cypher to take him to journey with him. Cypher agrees and then he takes Kitai with him on his last mission before retirement. Their spaceship has several crews and soldiers and an alien which will be used for training. Suddenly their ship faces some asteroid shower. Cypher’s wisdom and experience saves the ship for the first time, but the environment damages the ship heavily.

They have no other option than to crash land on planet earth. The landing breaks the ship in two parts. All the crews, except Cypher and Kitai are dead. Cypher is badly injured and the beacon of the ship is broken. To send message for help, they need to find another beacon, which is at the tail part of the ship. But the accident has thrown the tail of the ship to far away from the head part, where Cypher and Kitai is currently located.

So, now its all up to Kitai to go and find the other beacon on the tail of the broken ship in this hostile environment. Cypher instructs him well about surviving in there. The planet becomes very cold during the night, so before night, Kitai must find the hotspots. Kitai also has communication system and different life support materials with him. The alien is free on the planet, which is another tension for Cypher.

Kitai starts his journey. He keeps constant communication with Cypher. Using the communication systems, from the ship, Cypher can see all around Kitai and he also has a map to guide Kitai. At first, Kitai gets scared and does something against the instructions of Cypher. He falls in danger for that but survives. Then he keeps on following Cypher’s instructions.

At one point, when Kitai was running out of his oxygen supplies, Cypher orders him to abort his mission and to come back to the ship. Kitai then reminds Cypher about their past family occurrences and finally jumps of a cliff to take a shortcut to his mission. He is saved, but at one point, his communication device breaks. From the ship, Cypher can only see Kitai, but can’t send in instructions.

So, now Kitai, a young boy, is all alone is a deadly environment. He does not have any further instruction or navigation. While his oxygen supply is running low, he must rely on his instincts to survive in this hostile environment and save his and his father’s life.

My review about the movie After Earth:

I found After Earth as a very average science fiction movie.

The plot is good, but its very predictable. There was not much surprise in the whole movie. Although the plot of After Earth is perfect for a science fiction movie, but the parts where Kitai was following the exactly what Cypher was saying to himself seemed too dramatic to be real. The family history and Kitai’s imaginations were good small touches.

The biggest problem of After Earth was its casting. The whole movie is centered on Jaden Smith. But his acting and maturity didn’t seem enough to carry him on this big task. He was not a good fit for the leading character of such a movie . I was missing typical Will Smith charm at the beginning of After Earth but it came on as the movie proceeded.  The acting of the other characters are good. The make ups and the dialogues were good too.

The special effects of After Earth were pretty decent and the alien looked scary. But I watched Oblivion just few days ago, so during the whole movie, the comparison between After Earth and Oblivion came in my mind. And I felt sorry that considering the set design, special effects and cinematography, After Earth is nothing compared to Oblivion. If you have watched Oblivion recently, I guess, you will also feel the difference, although both of them are different types of movies. This can be a common case, because both of the science fictions have been released in nearby time. You may miss the beautiful cinematography of Oblivion in After Earth.  

There is nothing is the movie After Earth, which may restrict a kid to see it.

So, the biggest flaw of this movie is the role of Jaden Smith. We have seen his beautiful acting in the movie Pursuit Of Happiness, when he was much smaller. I believe he will grow up as a great actor, considering who his father is, but in After Earth, it seemed like he is not ready yet.  It also felt like, the role given to him in this movie is too much for him at this age. The director could make the role of Will Smith stronger or could give him more screen time outside the spaceship to make this movie better.

Another thing is, as a movie of Will Smith, I felt a little disappointed by After Earth. Will Smith is one of my all-time favorite actors, and like other millions of his fans, I expect only beautiful movies from him. After all those beautiful movies, he has given us two consecutive just ‘good’ movies in recent times, Men in Black 3 and then After Earth. We all want to see those beautiful movies of him again.

So, overall, After Earth seemed just as a regular science fiction movie, nothing special. The presence of Will Smith in this movie is very limited and the main character seemed weak in acting. The score even goes lower, if you compare it with Tom Cruise’s Oblivion, which is also released in recent times. You can also see, After Earth holds a little lower than average IMDB rating of 4.9 while I’m writing this review. Finally, I’ll recommend watching After Earth to all movie lovers, although I’m, not sure how much it will be loved.

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