I thought I'd try & do something different - a film review.
This is one film that I had been looking forward to. The clips looked promising, the CGI looked good, storyline sounded new, but I was a bit dubious of the main casting. & unfortunately my doubts were correct.
As director, M. Night Shyamalan, had his work cut out, and to a point succeeded, but was ultimately let down by the actors. Will Smith playing a stern emotionless father was not a good choice. He came across as dull, detached, & bored. His real life son, Jaden Smith, played his son in the movie, & his character bore the weight of the storyline, but his acting wasn't upto the task, leaving what had been a promising movie decidedly flat & lacking spark. The whole movie almost felt like a videogame with Will Smith controlling what his son was supposed to be doing.
If this movie was aimed at the early-mid teen market it would do well, as a SciFi movie, it fails.
My rating: 5 spikes out of 10 (for the teen market it would be more like 7 spikes out of 10)
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