It's pointless!!!

Rating: 3/10 (20 January 2007)

It's quite simple. This movie has no point.
You know the ending before you are 10 minutes in. In fact, you could have written the entire script on the back of a napkin during your lunch break. Only you would have been hard pressed to come up with a story quite so bland and unimaginative.
What is worse is that this is a film that effectively praises the central character for dragging his child onto the street to satisfy his own pursuit, not of "happyness", but of money in his pure greed to get a job with a big money finance company.
Will Smith simply plays himself, to the point of falling back on his Prince of Bel Air vocabulary on more than one occasion and Thandie Newton does her best to portray a character with no depth.
The occasional 80's reference scores nostalgia points and Jaden Smith delivers what little is asked of him but overall this is 145 mins of my life that would have been better spent doing the ironing, and probably more enjoyably spent at that.