All together now: “He needs a father.”īut what a father! Will and Jaden have had a lifetime of practicing to be dad and son, and they did a fine job together in the 2006 tearjerker The Pursuit of Happyness.īut in this one it’s as though Shyamalan told them to forget everything they knew about bonding. “He doesn’t need a commanding officer,” she tells him gently. Then there’s the scene in which Cypher and his wife, played by Sophie Okonedo, discuss their little boy. “Graviton buildup could be a precursor to mass expansion,” Cypher says to the pilot of his spaceship, and I wondered if the guy crashed them on Earth just so he wouldn’t have to listen to any more of this techno-babble. Īfter Earth features some of the worst science-fiction dialogue this side of Tatooine. Quarterstaff? I’d wager it’s a buck-and-a-quarterstaff at least. He also has a colour-changing outfit (made of the same stuff as mood rings) and his father’s fighting stick, which has more blades than the Swiss army. Despite the fact that this is a forest-covered Earth, the kid needs a supply of inhalers to give him enough oxygen to survive. Bleeding internally and apparently unable to act, he sends Kitai on a 100-km trek to recover the ship’s emergency beacon and call for help. Article contentĬypher has broken both legs in the crash. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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