I’m
revisiting an old friend of the show, M Night Shyamalan
It’s been a while since I reviewed the last one and it’s still most
anger-inducing product I’ve ever watched. But this one is slightly different.
Will Smith wrote the plot of this movie, which M Night and Garry Whitta adapted
into a screenplay. Jaden may have been successful in the Karate Kid but it
certainly didn’t seem like he was getting a lot of other acting roles, this
came out 3 years after the Karate Kid, and something had happened, Jaden had
gone through puberty so his voice and performance is significantly changed from
Karate Kid
It’s fairly
obvious this movie was Will Smith’s attempt to bolster his son into stardom,
and if that was the case then EPIC FAIL! This movie was panned on release, 11%
on Rotten Tomatoes, and was also a box office failure, earning $250m on a $150m
budget + $100m marketing. So, what went wrong? Was it Shyamalan’s direction,
the writing or a mixture of the two? Let’s take a look at After Earth.]
