I Am Legend

I Am Legend

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I Am Legend

Will Smith, Alice Braga, Salli Richardson, Willow Smith, Charlie Tahan, Dash Mihok

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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  • October 2, 2009
    I can see why a lot of people didn't like this film. It's not mindless and full of explosions. I guess people were looking for an action film. Ha, good, I'm glad, because this is a rather good character study of the last man on earth, which is a far more interesting story than an...( read more)y 'Die hardesqe' film. I personally think that this is Will Smith's best role so far. It?s also a very good , updated, adaptation. I would go as far to say it?s better than the Omega man! It?s not as good as A boy and his dog but it was a pleasant surprise! The night-walkers looked a bit shit though :o(
  • May 31, 2009
    Will Smith plays a researcher who is trying to find a cure to a plague that has transformed most of humanity into Morlock-like beings. He and his dog are the last sane beings in New York city.

    I enjoyed the movie. It has its share of terror, hope and sadness. Will does a gr...( read more)eat job, and he has to carry the movie on his own for most of it. I read that this is the third movie based on the novel of the same name. I would like to see the other two now ('The Last Man on Earth' [1964] and 'The Omega Man' [1971])
  • May 11, 2009
    Yes, Will Smith is gorgeous and can carry a movie on his own. The only thing lacking in this movie was a sense of plausibility.
  • April 7, 2009
    There are two problems with this flick mainly, one, the idea and look of of the film is now been done sooooo often, recently with 28 Days and Weeks Later in London and to be fair they are a much better grittier afair than this Hollywood cgi offering. The whole idea of civilizatio...( read more)n turning into zombies, vampires or being wiped out etc.. has been done to death and Im afraid this film is just too late. The other problem is the miscast of Will Smith. Smith is an ok actor, mainly a comedic or action based actor, and he just cant pull this of. Scenes involving sadness, grief or loneliness are just not fully realised by smith because he cant get around his comedy background, he just doesn't fit the role. A case of big name for big film Im afraid. The film is actually ok, the effects of a desolate NY are great and haunting, its not very scary but it does bring a slight chill in certain silent moments. The night creatures are abit plastic lookin Im afraid, alittle bit too Golem hehe I did'nt like the Resident Evil style zombie dogs either, too silly and the score is a tad flat but overall its a good film just nothing special and not as good as 28 Days Later. One thing puzzles me...how did lions and wild gazelle or whatever end up grazing and living in NY city? ok everybodies dead but how the hell does that happen? lol
  • March 19, 2009
    Never loses momentum, boasts great special effects, and unlike most movies of its kind, this one actually has interesting character depth and offers something to think about.
  • November 15, 2009
    Francis Lawrence's eerie, vaguely futuristic sci-fi/action thriller exists in a New York not terribly far-removed from present day, and as such it is kind of terrifying in its implications. Robert Neville (Will Smith) is a military scientist who, we are informed in the opening, b...( read more)elieved he'd found a "Miracle Cure" for Cancer. Unfortunately, the cure had side-effects which result in mutations, causing some to devolve into personality-devoid "vampires" of sorts. Now, New York City has been evacuated and Neville believes he may be the last man on Earth. He has barricaded himself in a house in Greenwich Village with his dog, his only companion. He makes daily patrols through the city, brief sojurns into a video store where he converses with the mannequins he's set up there as faux customers and cashiers, and gives annual radio updates in hopes that, perhaps, someone will hear him. In his basement laboratory, Neville continues to seek a cure - not for Cancer, but for the mutations he has caused. One night, Neville's spirit is broken, and he tries to kill himself by doing a kamakaze drive through an army of vampires to kill as many as possible before they finally kill him. Unexpectedly (and unclearly in method), he is rescued by a young woman named Anna (Alice Braga) and a boy called Ethan (Charlie Tahan). Just as Neville has lost hope for humanity and the future, he runs smack-dab into these two, who believe that a human colony of survivors exists in Vermont; they were traveling there when they saved Neville from his fate, apparently. The trio must now outwit, outrun and outlast the enemy long enough to find a potential cure for the mutations together. The film, directed by Francis Lawrence ("Constantine"), was based on the novel by Richard Matheson ("Stir of Echoes") written in 1954. It has previously been adapted as "The Last Man on Earth" (1964) with Vincent Price, and more famously as "The Omega Man" (1971) starring Charlton Heston. Here, Lawrence uses sound and very little music in the early scenes to create an eerie atmosphere; we believe that New York is evacuated and that Smith may be the only one left - it's very creepy. There are flashes to the evacuation and Smith's gutwrenching decision to part with his wife and daughter (Salli Richardson and his real-life daughter Willow Smith), and they provide some of the better special effects sequences in the film. Ultimately, this is a pseudo-scientific thriller with horror movie elements and it's a very well-made example of such.
  • November 15, 2009
    i want to see this movie again
  • November 14, 2009
    AMAZING! WILL SMITH ROCKED THE SHOW!
  • November 13, 2009
    really good movie but the ending was not as strong as I would have liked it to be; maybe the alternate ending would have been better.
  • November 13, 2009
    a great movie about sacrifice and loyalty

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