This Epic 13-Minute Video Points Out Everything Wrong With After Earth — cinemablend.com

Thanks to the official CinemaSins YouTube page, we now have the most comprehensive analysis of the film that took last year's Razzies by storm - and it's not a pretty picture. I mean let's face it, ever since J.J. Abrams started using the "X Days Earlier" device on Alias, everyone else started to run with it. And who could blame them, as it's a really fun trick to play around with... if you know what you're doing. As usual, that qualification seems to evade M. Night Shyamalan's resume like aliens and monkey creatures evade water. Still, if you're going to start your film with a flashback to days earlier, do it right and avoid the mistake that After Earth makes by jumping back and forth through time four separate occasions in its first act.

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