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  1. 15-Apr-2013 #16
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    I thought his performance in IAM was very good. I just think there would have been many better alternatives with out so much baggage attached. He was in it to make it a Hollywood blockbuster action flick IMHO, and that's all the film was... And as such glossed over the grit and depths the film could have touched to make it truly great.
    You've got a point. Had it been an unknown making the role, and if they'd focused more on his isolated everyday life (and not adding in any other human characters) then the film could've been one of the great ones. As it was now, it was a High Concept-film, albeit a very good one.
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    Reviews seem to suggest a fairly average affair - http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/05/3...r-earth-review
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Cinemblend is somewhat kind about it - http://www.cinemablend.com/reviews/A...arth-6431.html

    ...once you readjust your expectations and accept After Earth on its own terms, I think you’ll find it’s an admirable YA adventure, a moderately engaging piece of sci-fi storytelling, a return to respectability for Shyamalan, and a welcome departure for an aging Will Smith.
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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  4. 05-Jun-2013 #19
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    I could definitely see this as a decent Young-Adult adventure film, as suggested by the quote above, that doesn't really help sell it to my already non-existent interest, however.

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