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Just saw this with half an eye again. Being up, doing nothing at 3.30 am will make you watch anything.
But seeing this again really puzzled me as to how I could give this two stars. I made some comments about acting and some other bullshit which probably had merit. But as I sat through my nightshift rewatching this, I got angrier and angrier. Twice have hollywood tried adapting Richard Matheson's sci-fi gem 'I Am Legend' and twice have they pissed all over him. How can they claim this is inspired by his book when they have turned it around and made it about the exact opposite of what the book tries to convey?

So this film is worth not even half a star. It's worth zero. Instead I will now recommend the book for you guys. If you haven't read it you should do it before reading this 'review' since I will reveal some things best left unknown before you read it to prove why this film stinks. Seriously. Read it.
The book starts after the world has succumbed to a disease that has turned every human into vampires. Everyone but Robert Neville who is immune. He spends his nights locked in his house that he has fortified and the vampires come to this house as he is, obviously, a rarity they'd like to feed upon. But at day he is the hunter. He scavenge for resources and food and hunts for vampires of course. He both wants to kill them but also study them as he hopes for a cure. He even has to study the vampires of legend as he knows theres a possibility that Dracula and his kin have really existed.
But as he does this he becomes the boogeyman of the nightmares. As the vampires evolve from the diseased bloodthirsty beasts into 'civilized' creatures that lives in cities and make laws to keep order, Neville becomes the monster that strikes at 'night' when they sleep. Killing them in their sleep, dragging them into the streets/sun so they die while the other vampires watch in fear from the shadows, kidnapping children or parents to experiment on them. In the end the vampires are the frightened mob, like the one that storm castle frankenstein in the films, attacking that which they fear or do not understand.
So in the end, when Neville stands trial and are sentenced, it even makes sense to him because he is the monster. He is Dracula. He is legend...
So, even though we know humans are 'humane', is he in his right to try and destroy a new civilization that rises when ours has fallen? Even if we know it to be evil? And that is what this film could have done so beautifully in it's time with Bush fucking around on his high horse forcing his good ideals and righteous ways down the throat of others.
And then they make this simpleton film with some cocked up 'I am legend because I save humanity'. Put aside that I'm not a big fan of humanity, this film could have been beautiful even to a philanthropist who I am sure could have appreciated the irony had it been made in Mathesons image.
So... if you've seen the film and hated it, I beg of you, read the book. It deserves the vindication!

The most beautiful film I know of. Everything is perfect, from the characters and actors, to the story, cinematography and score. Perhaps my very favorite film.