Every Will Smith Movie Ranked Worst To Best

31. After Earth (2013)

Smith surely meant well with After Earth, a film for which he conceived the story and starred alongside his son Jaden for the second time in their careers.

A sci-fi blockbuster about a soldier and his son who become trapped on a hostile planet inhabited by aliens that sense fear, the movie is an unrepentant slog of half-formed ideas and a complete lack of charisma, in large part due to an unengaging Jaden taking centre stage.

You can feel Smith slipping away from the drama with every scene, as if it's suddenly occurred to him that both he and director M. Night Shyamalan have made a massive mistake. He wouldn't take a leading role again for almost two years.