Instead, the story firmly focuses on Will Smith’s character Cypher Raige, a legendary ranger who first found the weakness in the aliens that hunted and fed off human fear, and his son Kitai Raige, played by real-life son Jaden Smithįor about 90% of the movie, these are the only two characters we see or interact with. Now, I’ve heard that a rather detailed mythology was created for the universe of After Earth, and there’s plenty of indications that there’s more to this setting than just what we’re seeing and being told, so it’s rather frustrating that such and intriguing place isn’t really given any space to be explored. Any mythology or backstory is related to us in brief bits of expository dialogue.
The universe that After Earthis set in is certainly an intriguing one unfortunately, the film doesn’t take any time to really explore it in any depth (which is a shame because it certainly had plenty of space to do so). I liked the story, but as the film dragged, I have to admit I was bit anxious just to get to the inevitable end. This is the type of tale that could easily be shared in a half-hour after school special, but isn’t exactly suited for an epic, full-length feature film. There’s a certain primalness in its simplicity, which suits the setting well, but because it is so simple, 100 minutes of it sort of stretches things a bit. It’s a simple and straightforward tale about a boy growing into a man by slaying his fear in this case, literally represented by a scary alien that hunts people down by tracking their fear. After Earth is an Aesop’s Fable set in space.
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