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Plot:
Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.
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Recent Reviews
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MCT:May 13, 2008Nah, didn't work for me. Something about Will Smith being the savoir of mankind for like the fifth time didn't really appeal. And the ending was awful.
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MCT:May 13, 2008I truly wanted to enjoy this film. I wanted something new and I got nothing but the same. A dystopian Castaway in New York with vampires is ripe with possibility... and we get this? The graphic novel wasn't all that thrilling either, so I was really curious how it was going to play out. I wanted to see 'I am Legend' salvage that idea into something cool. Sadly, poor CG and just poor storytelling (I am supposed to feel sympathy for the vamps? Say wha?) killed this one for me.
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MCT:May 13, 2008fantastic film very good storyline but i wonder how muchsalary the dog got ha lol fantastic sums the up in 1 word
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MCT:May 13, 2008
Since the mid 90s Hollywood has really been in a rut; everything has to be bigger and louder and basic storytelling has gone out the window. But I'm not gonna totally knock Hollywood they do sometimes get it right. It's just they don't produce the movies they once did. I hoped I Am Legend would be one of the few that worked well, but when all was said and done Hollywood dropped the ball again. I Am Legend had potential to be a really chilling movie, but it never reaches that level.
First up I have to mention Will Smith who plays Robert Neville; it's pretty much a one man show and more than half the movie is just Will Smith and his dog. I'll give major credit to Smith who really does a great job at carrying the movie. In general the movies Will Smith does really don't appeal to me, but he is a fantastic actor and does one hell of a job here.
I Am Legend is based off the Richard Matheson novel and the screenplay was written by Mark Protosevich & Akiva Goldsman and it's never really interesting. It's not easy to write a screenplay and even harder when you have pretty much one character through a majority of the movie. The concept of the movie is excellent, but their screenplay just doesn't really work. It's not terrible by any means, just isn't all that good. But with the right director it could have possibly worked.
Francis Lawrence steps into the director's chair and fails at brining any tension or adventure. The pacing often lacks and he never really gets much going and the action scenes come out weak. Seeing the deserted Manhattan streets is sort creepy as a New Yorker and seeing that makes for a semi chilling moment, but is never as creepy as it could have been. But after a while those shots become tiresome. I never felt that whole end of the world vibe; one of the most chilling scenes in recent memory was the deserted London streets in 28 Days Later, but here with I Am Legend you never get that chilling vibe.
The screenplay was flawed, but with the right director I think the movie could have worked. I just never felt any tension, the deserted Manhattan streets are never as chilling as it should have been and the action scenes fail at brining much excitement. The ending was very anti-climatic. What could have been a powerful scene feels rushed and just falls flat.
The CGI was the good thing, dunno why people criticize that. The zombies looked realistic.
I Am Legend is just too Hollywood stylized; in some ways it's better than a lot of what's out there. While this does have action scenes it's not done as much as I thought it would be. I expected mindless action scene over and over again and it wasn't. So that's a good thing, but action or not it's too stylized. A movie like this needs more of a gritty look. Again there was potential here, but when all is said and done I Am Legend just lacks in tension and excitement.
If you are into big time Hollywood productions odds are I Am Legend will get the job done and you'll enjoy the movie, but for the rest of us we'll mostly be bored. I haven't seen The Omega Man, which is based off the Matheson novel and I Am Legend follows that movie, but I have seen The Last Man on Earth, which is also based off the Matheson novel. My opinion skip this one and check out The Last Man on Earth, while flawed it's far better than this. But again for those who enjoy Hollywood productions you'll probably like this, but the rest will be bored at another Hollywood mishap. -
MCT:May 12, 2008what the hell!! If I knew this was going to be like watching castaway but with a dog instead of wilson I wouldn't have watched it
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fabulousguy2007posted 4 days ago -
because they are not vampires, there meant to be mutated humans, albino, there also meant to be coherent & talk & a lot of other things, but the scriptwriter decided to totally change the story (it even has a happy ending & a different meaning to the film title) a terrible film, the best & most accurate version is "the last man on earth" with Vincent price in if anyone wants to know)
posted 13 days ago -
Why couldn't this movie have had the vampires from 30 Days of Night instead of the albino creatures from the Descent? That's all I want to know...
posted 22 days ago -
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I just did a quiz about the movie and whoever made it didn't really know much about the movie. They didn't know his name was Robert Neville they said Robert Norfil or something and they called Willow Smith (who plays Marley Neville) a boy...now that's embarrassing. I wish people would actually read up on the movies there about to do quizes on.
posted 45 days ago -
I loved it. Props to Will he does good acting! I was crying from when the dog died to just about the end basicly. It was really really sad. Even when i tried to explain it to my mom i was bawling and shaking. Thats how good of a movie it was. I LOVE IT. what i found most interesting is that this could actually happen. Not the zombie thing but the fact that if we don't do anything our world is going to fall apart!
posted 47 days ago -
Slow on some parts, but the other parts were action packed. I expected some of them and then someone of the others were unexpected. Sad that the dog turned and he had to kill him. Even at the end he found the cure but he had to kill himself and let a girl with her son to defend it. Very good movie, I cried once.
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