After Earth

"Futuristic sci-fi adventure starring Will Smith and offspring Jaden, playing a father and son who crash land on Earth, a thousand years after humans evacuated - directed by M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense)."

"Shyamalan is clearly a director-for-hire here, his disinterest palpable from first frame to last."

"Jaden Smith takes centre stage in a futuristic rites of passager that plays like an extended episode of The Twilight Zone. Although "Oblivion" narrowly remains this summer’s better ruined-Earth actioner."

"What undoes the film is its rather rancid parent-child sentimentality (a Shyamalan staple, admittedly) and a charisma-free performance from the younger Smith that suggests the apple has fallen very far from the tree."

"He's done it again. M Night Shyamalan has done it again. Again. Done it. Again."

"There is no small irony that this sci-fi action adventure is about surviving a serious crash. The scorched earth left behind by "After Earth" is sure to leave a scar on everyone involved."

"The disappointingly generic film, which strands a father and son on Earth a thousand years after a planet-wide evacuation, will leave genre audiences pining for the more Terra-centric conceits of "Oblivion," not to mention countless other future-set films that find novelty in making familiar surroundings threatening."

"Prepare to cringe and snicker whenever the characters are talking, but gasp when Shyamalan just shows amazing stuff."