Review: 'After Earth' a disappointing sci-fi tale

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Review: 'After Earth' a disappointing sci-fi tale

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/review-earth-disappointing-sci-fi-tale-044948990.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/d8vrvxPBo04ZrCjG7YkGjw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/5f65cfefe0f42a11330f6a7067008cb2.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="This film publicity image released by Sony - Columbia Pictures shows Jaden Smith in a scene from &quot;After Earth.&quot; (AP Photo/Sony, Columbia Pictures, Claudette Barius)" align="left" title="This film publicity image released by Sony - Columbia Pictures shows Jaden Smith in a scene from &quot;After Earth.&quot; (AP Photo/Sony, Columbia Pictures, Claudette Barius)" border="0" /></a>LOS ANGELES (AP) â€" Humanity's home planet hardly merits the name-check in &quot;After Earth,&quot; M. Night Shyamalan's sci-fi survival tale whose shipwreck action could (with the exception of a scene where our hero scrawls a crude map over Lascaux-like cave paintings) take place on any old life-supporting globe in the cosmos. The disappointingly generic film, which strands a father and son (Will and Jaden Smith) on Earth a thousand years after a planet-wide evacuation, will leave genre audiences pining for the more Terra-centric conceits of &quot;Oblivion,&quot; not to mention countless other future-set films that find novelty in making familiar surroundings threatening. Will Smith's presence, not just as co-star but as originator of the story, seems likely to carry box office receipts beyond the benchmark of Shyamalan's previous picture, the wretched &quot;The Last Airbender,&quot; but those hoping for a franchise should navigate elsewhere.</p><br clear="all"/>

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