The space ship has crashed and only two survive. The scenes between the father and son to me did seem a little long and protracted. The incredible horror of the vicious wild life that proliferated on our beautiful earth was repeated very often. One has seen scenes like this many, many times on horror movies. The mountain lions and orangutans with some sort of creepy crawly abomination of a prehistoric beast were technically very well done. Of course, they were after a 14 year old lad, who had to beat his way through sixty miles through a now primordial forest. He had to get a special device that would signal to the planet occupied by humans. They would rescue father and son from our once beautiful earth. The forest scenes were very good here. Nature rules.
Somehow when I chance see old films of Sydney Portier and Harry Belafonte, I turn off the T/V. These men are racialists and some might say racists. I cannot object to Will Smith, but perhaps I am missing something. My main criticism of this 1 hour 43 minute film is that the scenes seemed far too long in the interaction between father and son.
Nothing wrong with enjoying a movie for the pure enjoyment of it. I liked Dances with smurfs for the beauty of it despite the idiocy of the premise it pushed. I’m a big boy and won’t be converted to a liberal by a movie.
As far as Smith is concerned I’ve seen some interviews lately and he obviously loves his son but may be trying a bit too hard to push the boy to stardom.