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I Am Legend | 
| Director: Francis Lawrence
Actors: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Salli Richardson, Willow Smith
Studio: Warner Bros.
Category: Movie
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Rating:  613 reviews
Sales Rank: 2791
Genre: Science Fiction - Action
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 101 Minutes
ASIN: B0014CDKVY
Theatrical Release Date: December 14, 2007
Release Date: October 6, 2008 (New: This Week)
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| Synopsis:
Somehow immune to an unstoppable, incurable virus, military virologist Robert Neville (Smith) is now the last human survivor in New York City and maybe the world. But he is not alone. Mutant victims of the plague lurk in the shadows... watching Neville's every move... waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Perhaps mankind's last, best hope, Neville is driven by only one remaining mission: to find an antidote using his own immune blood. But he knows he is outnumbered... and quickly running out of time. |
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 "Light Up the Darkness" October 8, 2008
Gunner (Bethlehem,Georgia)
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
I Am Legend DVD
I am Legend stars Will Smith as a scientist who has survived a deadly virus that was developed by genetic engineering to kill cancer; instead it has killed off most of mankind. Smith struggles to live in New York City with his German Shepherd dog surrounded by cannibalistic super strong zombies that only come out at night. This is a jarring apocalyptic movie that speaks well of Hollywood. I'm glad that someone in Hollywood is reading Science Fiction. There's a ton of science fiction books that could be made into good movies.
This movie is based on the novelette I Am Legend
Recommended for fans of Will Smith, and science fiction (Note: I have not read the book so I don't know how closely the story follows the book.)
Gunner October, 2008
 Amazing Film October 8, 2008
barry (Boston, MA United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I absolutely loved this film. I must admit i did not expect much going into it. I have never been a huge Will Smith fan or a fan of science fiction which this film seemed to be. Wow, was I shocked and amazed with the excellent, quality film of the highest caliber that totally took me by surprise.
This film is so well made. I thought the story was very well laid out. The government thought that they had finally found a cure for cancer by using a vaccine for another illness. After much use the treatment backfired with major side effects with the people turning into flesh eating zombies who could never be in the sun. I didn't look at the creatures as mere vampire like beings but thought the deterioration due to the vaccine was well documented. Back to the plot, New York City becomes quaurantined and Will Smith plays Neville, a military scientist who stays in New York to work on finding a cure.
The barren and stranded New York City is amazing to view. I was caught up in the film from the first second and amazed as I watched the small world Neville had created for himself and his dog which allowed him to work on the cure but also have protection from the creatures. He ventured out every day and returned at night. Will Smith has been praised for other films but his work here was truly Oscar worthy. The first half of the film is the best when it is just him and the dog. His characterization is more than believable as the lone survivor who deals with loneliness by talking to mannequins etc. He has not gone crazy but has adapted. I found the story to also be believable and the creatures when shown were also believable and very well created. The movie has a serious basis but also has chills and thrills like one of the best horror films there are.
In the latter half of the film the plot changes a little (I won't give it away) and the 5 star plus caliber of the first half gets a little off track. It is still excellent but the first half was so superior it is hard to compete with. The film has a purpose and shows Will Smith as never seen before. Whatever your expectations for this film, upon viewing they will be far surpassed. Excellent acting, amazing production and directing.
Highly recommended.
 Why can't movie makers provide movies in Blue-ray that are FULL SCREEN. I will not buy any movies that are not FULL SCREEN. October 7, 2008
Maureen K. Fisher
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Blue Ray is not Blue Ray without the movie filling the whole screen just like if I were at the movie theatre.
Sooner or later...they will find you September 29, 2008
Everett (Rio Rancho, NM USA)
At first I had next to no interest to go see I AM LEGEND when I first heard of it's release and it's promotional advertising. It seemed like another film following in on the success of such films as 2004's Dawn of the Dead or even 28 Days Later. I soon found many people I knew raving about it just because it was an intelligent film. No one seemed to compare it to any other film. I couldn't help but have my curiosity piqued and I had never really seen anything with Will Smith as the lead star so I figured there wasn't any problem in seeing such a large-scale film upon the big screen.
Robert Neville (Will Smith) is in the middle of apocalypse... surrounded by nobody. After a devastating epidemic caused by an experiment that was supposed to cure cancer sweeps through the world, Robert finds himself victim to his own genes as simply one among the small percentage of population who would've been immune to the virus. Aided by his faithful dog Sam, he copes with his days by remembering the last moments he spent with his wife Zoe and daughter Marley, while also struggling with new challenges such as grabbing the attention of two survivors: Anna, a kind but brave woman, and Ethan, a little boy who refuses to say a word. However, two survivors aren't the only things he's grabbed the attention of...
My favorite thing about the whole story are the six main characters. Lead gracefully and thoughtfully by Will Smith who could've easily ruined his career had he not carried the entire film on his shoulders for an hour on his own. The slew of emotions that runs through his face between the present time and flashbacks are a constant reminder of Robert's world was and what it has become and the difference between them.
The other five characters are also a rarity on their own: two women, two children, and his dog. The fact that the Robert's character never speaks to any other men never crosses your mind until well after the film is over. When it comes down to it, his own dog ends up being female. The only other male character, Ethan, never says a word because of the devastating things each of them have experienced. Anna (played beautifully by Alice Braga) only becomes a reminder to Robert of his wife who only shares a bit eight minutes with his daughter (played greatly by Smith's own daughter, Willow Smith) in flashback sequences.
Too many people seem to overlook the fact that the story is centered around Robert at his psychological height. They seem more intent to point all the mistakes and plot holes. Personally, I'm usually the one to do so but I was so entertained by the movie as a whole that I didn't even bother. It was really more of an intelligent bit of filmmaking and writing to take the more humanitarian look to the film instead of looking on the hollywood side of it. I could've easily said that the $150,000,000 was wasted on a big-budget blockbuster. I Am Legend becomes more than that after it lingers on your mind well after you've seen it. I think this film will serve as more of what audiences looking for... to be tested and be given creativity at the same time.
 Inconsistent, with Gaping Plot Holes September 27, 2008
Sir Charles Panther (Alexandria, Virginny, USandA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This story had so many horrible plot holes that by the end I was glad it was over. Will Smith doesn't sacrifice himself to save the world; he just wants out of the lousy story he's become a part of.
The opening scene is a ridiculous, pathetic masturbatory commercial for the Ford Mustang GT500. I mean, really, who would hunt deer from a speeding sports car, even if you actually could? This opening had me shaking my head in disappointment, and the rest of the movie didn't take that feeling away.
The CGI was lame, shallow and low-budge throughout. Almost all of the viral-zombies (VZs) were CGI, and were not convincing.
All the VZs did was run really fast, climb like vampire-monkeys, and of course open their mouths really wide and roar a lot. Man, we've seen this dumbass mouthy-roaring gimmick a million times since it became the de rigueur monster stunt in the first Mummy movie. Now it's just trite and predictable, and no longer effective.
So, Will Smith is an Army LTC doctor, with a massive townhouse right on Washington Square in the heart of Manhattan, with a completely outfitted viral research suite in the basement? And he has all of the trappings of the pre-Armageddon life because he's resourceful n' stuff n' all? Yeah, puh-leeze.
And he powers all this stuff in his house and the lab with three or four Honda--nice product placement!--generators, which we see running happily . . . in the flipping pantry! Hollywood, there is this odorless, colorless gas, called carbon monoxide, which is emitted in the process of combustion, which . . . aw, the hell with it.
In an abandoned city, the first electrical short or lightning strike will start a fire, which with everyone including the fire department dead, will burn out of control. If there was such a struggle at the end of humanity, wouldn't there be a battle or two, maybe a little fire here and there? In a city as dense as NYC, all of Manhattan would burn for weeks. Nope, none of that, no evidence of it. Just rusty cars and some grass in the cracks of the pavement.
In a tense scene early on, we see the VZs for the first time in a very dark room strewn with bundles of money, a bank vault--on a second floor. I mean, seriously, who puts a massive bank vault on the second floor? Who reviews these settings and agrees to shoot them?
If the VZs come out at night and are so flipping voracious, why are there so many deer running all over the island? If animals can be infected, too, why are there so many deer running all over the island?
If the VZs are so screamingly (literally) violent, why haven't they all killed and eaten each other yet?
Our hero, the brilliant doctor, makes the crucial observation of the VZs that they have lost all semblance of human behavior, yet the VZ "leader" steals a mannequin from one of the hero's haunts, moves it to a crucial location, and sets a clever trap, clearly learned from watching the hero do the same thing earlier. And then the VZ leader-guy sics three apparently trained--these are supposed to be completely unhinged, ultra-violent critters, right?--viral-zombie dogs on our hero. I mean, if the VZs were this smart, why aren't they driving cars and carrying weapons themselves?
Our hero has weapons stashed everywhere, and knows how to put them into action, too. Until, that is, when it's time for things to go south and the finale to come. Then he just can't hit a thing, even on full auto. Junk.
At the end, the VZ leader-guy breaks his way slowly through the unbreakable lab glass by smashing his head and body into it repeatedly, with no signs whatsoever of any kind of physical trauma. But, uh, we've seen throughout the movie that although highly infected, and completely psycho, these VZ guys after all are physical beings which are more or less human in frame, strength and stamina, injured and killed with violence which would do the same to a human, even brought down by one or more shots from a firearm. But when the Big Dramatic Finish comes, it's time for the VZ bad-guy leader to suddenly become so much more, an über-zombie, if you will. Barf.
Manhattan is an island, right? How did the heroine-lady get onto it with her son? And how did she get off?
I will say this: Will Smith does do some pretty heavy acting in a couple of scenes, especially early on. I'll give the man that much, with no reservations. His environments may be CGI, but his acting is real, solid and powerful. That German Shepherd was doing some pretty heavy "acting," too--that was one really well-trained canine.
Bottom line: I'm amazed this didn't get to DVD faster, given the shockingly inept story. But the story Will Smith is working with is junk. Don't pay to rent this. Wait for it on video, or see it on a buddy's dime; then it will be worth your time.
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