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Hey guys, I'm Kenzie from New Zealand and I'm the new movie writer! I'm 18 and I'm studying Law at the best law school in the country and somehow managing to maintain my blog on the side. We get movies a bit later than most countries but I will always give an honest opinion of any movie I see, and I will also take requests if you choose to send me one! So let's kick off my first review!

AFTER EARTH REVIEW

With a rating of only 4.9 on IMDb and 11% on Rotten Tomatoes, a lot of people would have not even gone to see the movie After Earth, which starred Will Smith and his son Jaden. However, I don't tend to read movie reviews before I see the movie, so my boyfriend and I went along anyway. It was actually quite good, the story was strong, if paced a little slowly, and the special effects were good if not great. For those of you who know absolutely nothing about this movie, I'll give you an outline. Many years from now, humanity has left Earth and Earth has evolved in our absence, becoming extremely deadly. Will's character and Jaden's character, who are father and son Cypher and Kitai Raige, are stranded there, the only survivors of a spaceship crash, and with Cypher severely injured, Kitai must be the one to save them.

The movie opens with an explanation of what exactly happened to the human race to make them leave Earth. It is claimed that this happened 1000 years ago, but the issue I take with this is that later in the movie it is claimed that Earth has evolved to be hostile to humans in this 1000 years, which I find implausible, personally. The explanation is good, however, and it sets the scene for the story very well, even with an introduction to the deadly creatures faced by the main character later in the film.

I liked pretty much all of the rest of the movie, with that slight inaccuracy being my only real problem with it. The story definitely could have progressed a little quicker, but there were no boring moments, at least not for me. The special effects were great, and the story was written and directed well.

I genuinely enjoyed this movie and I would definitely pay to see it again. I would also recommend it to others in a heartbeat. It's a very interesting movie, and the casting choice of Will and Jaden was in my opinion the right one.