A crash landing leaves Kitai Raige and his father Cypher stranded on Earth, a millennium after events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey t... Read allA crash landing leaves Kitai Raige and his father Cypher stranded on Earth, a millennium after events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help.A crash landing leaves Kitai Raige and his father Cypher stranded on Earth, a millennium after events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 8 nominations
- Senshi Raige
- (as Zoë Isabella Kravitz)
- Flirting Cadet
- (uncredited)
- Ghost Soldier
- (uncredited)
- Military Personal
- (uncredited)
- Cadet Brown
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaAlthough not credited on the finished film, co-writer/producer Will Smith was responsible for much of the movie's direction. M. Night Shyamalan was primarily in charge of the blocking (composition of shots, placement of the camera) and the visual aspects of the film (color and design), and had actually suggested Smith for the supporting role as the father, but it was Smith who dictated the development of the story (which he originally conceived) and the on-screen action, and personally coached his own son Jaden Smith in his performance. Although both the story and acting were heavily criticized and Shyamalan decided to take the blame, Smith later shared his deep regret for involving his son in the movie: the press had released a vicious barrage of negative commentary aimed at Jayden, which hit the boy hard since he had only followed his father's instructions. Will added that Jayden understandably felt betrayed and misled for a while, and once even requested to be emancipated from his parents at age 15. He eventually decided against it.
- GoofsCypher warns his son about Earth: "Everything on this planet has evolved to kill humans". Except that, in the movie, humans had abandoned Earth one thousand years before, so it makes absolutely no sense that any predator would "evolve" to hunt a prey that has been absent from its ecosystem for a whole millennium. That's exactly the opposite of how evolution works.
- Quotes
Cypher Raige: Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity Kitai. Do not misunderstand me, danger is very real, but fear is a choice. We are all telling ourselves a story and that day mine changed.
- Crazy creditsThe first part of the closing credits show a CGI globe view of the future altered Earth. There have been massive tectonic movements; South America is split in half and North Africa is connected to the East Coast of North America.
- ConnectionsFeatured in ReelzChannel Specials: Richard Roeper's Red Hot Summer (2013)
It's not that this is completely awful, it's just that it's so, well, undemanding. Will Smith and his real-life son Jaden play a father and son (surprise) who crash land on a post-apocalyptic Earth. Will is injured, so he sends his kid out to activate a homing beacon and thus enable their rescue. Along the way, the boy becomes a man.
It all sounds very sentimental and rather sickening and it is. Jaden Smith is no actor and never has been, but he has made a career of hanging on to his father's coat-tails and that's the case here. Will Smith is a little better, but he seems to be coasting along too. The constant CGI is very boring, and when you discover that the antagonists are rubbishy CGI beasties along the lines of 10,000 BC, well that's the time that you stop caring.
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- Feb 29, 2016
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- Also known as
- 1000 A.E.
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Box office
- Budget
- $130,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $60,522,097
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $27,520,040
- Jun 2, 2013
- Gross worldwide
- $243,611,982
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
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- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1