After Earth (2013)

Under a seeming studio-marketing embargo, a subdued M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, The Last Airbender) directs After Earth. The Draconian post-apocalyptic sci-fi brainchild of triple-threat — story, actor, producer — Will Smith provides an elaborate and labored backdrop for Smith to show off a forced sobriety and to showcase his son Jaden's (2010's The Karate Kid) acting skills, now greatly thinned by adolescence's awkwardness. Read the rest of the review here.