Actor Will Smith and son Jaden Smith have teamed up again to star in their second project together: a sci-fi flick entitled After Earth. The first was the sentimental hit The Pursuit of Happyness.

According to reviewers though, After Earth is anything but a hit.

The film, which comes out this Friday, is about a United Ranger (played by the elder Smith), a protector of humanity, 1,000 years after Earth could no longer sustain life as we know it. Mankind now lives on planet Nova Prime. Its resident aliens, the Skrel, have created a monster race called the Ursa, genetically bred to hunt humans. The Ursas are blind, only able to sniff out our kind by smelling fear.

Film critics and reviews from across the country appear to have the same general consensus about the film - that it wasn't very good, at all.

A critic who reviewed the film for the USA Today explained, "Though it's meant to be pulse-pounding, After Earth is a lethargic slog"

 "Their dialogue is mostly repetitive psycho-babble, broken up by tedious silences." The critic said.

He continued to describe the film as, "an inert tale of a boy coming into his own. While Jaden was adorable at age 8 in The Pursuit of Happyness and was capable in the remake of The Karate Kid, the now-14-year-old doesn't have the skills to pull off this starring role."

A film critic for The Washington Post's harshly described 14 year old Jaden Smith's acting arguing that "he 'spends much of the movie running around in a panic, waving his little arms at predators and shouting, "Leave me alone!" 'It's appropriate to the character, I guess. But it's also more than mildly annoying. Kitai comes across as a whiny, willful and one-dimensional brat."

Joe NeuMaier, a film reviewer for The New York Daily News went so far as refusing to grant the movie a single star out of the five possible that could've been given.

"Lurking in every corner of After Earth are poky action scenes, sketchy plot details, lazy logistics, junky sci-fi mumbo jumbo and dull-as-rice- attacks by futuristic baboons." NeuMaier said.

A reviewer for the LA Times said, "The script has no nuance, none. And when Shyamalan moves into the director's chair, the script problems are magnified."

"Everything is spelled out, underlined in red. Take the close-up on a 'Restricted Access' sign followed by the overkill of having someone proceed to explain what 'Restricted Access' means," the reviewer continued.

Check out the trailer for the film, which comes out today, HERE