I Am Legend [Blu-ray]

I Am Legend [Blu-ray]
by Francis Lawrence

I Am Legend [Blu-ray]
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Actor: Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Will Smith, Willow Smith
Director: Francis Lawrence
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Akiva Goldsman
Writer: Akiva Goldsman
Producer: Bruce Berman
Writer: John William Corrington
Writer: Joyce Hooper Corrington
Writer: Mark Protosevich
Writer: Richard Matheson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-18
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
  • Robert Neville is a brilliant scientist, but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable, and man-made. Somehow immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and maybe the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone.

Movie Reviews of I Am Legend [Blu-ray]

Movie Review: Not bad, but could have been better
Summary: 3 Stars

I have never read the novels before so I can't compare the movie to them. When I first saw the trailers, I was genuinely excited to watch this movie. This review is based strictly on my own personal opinion regarding the movie.

I thought the concept behind the story was cool. A scientist claims she has found the cure for cancer, but a few years later, pretty much everyone is either dead or has become some type of creature that lives in the dark and apparently feeds on flesh and blood. Will Smith plays Robert Neville, a scientist who is living in NYC while trying to find a cure for this disease. His only companion is his dog Sam. Their relationship kind of reminds me of Tom Hanks and Wilson from the movie Castaway. It shows how difficult it is to live in isolation without any other form of human contact. But as far as the story goes, that's pretty much the gist of it.

They also should have used real actors and actresses to play the creatures. Sometimes I feel like movies have fallen in love with CGI way too much. Honestly, the creatures look fake to me. They just don't look real at all for some reason. There were also parts of the movie that were just unnecessary (the scene where he goes to "rent" movies). I mean, I understand they're trying to show how he needs contact with other humans, but did we really need to see that scene? And why did he go back in there after the incident with Sam later on in the movie? Totally unnecessary in my opinion.

Overall, it was an OK movie. It wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible either. If you're a Will Smith fan, I'd say go check it out and see what it's about for yourself.

Summary of I Am Legend [Blu-ray]

Robert Neville is a brilliant scientist, but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable, and man-made. Somehow immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and maybe the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone. Mutant victims of the plague -- The Infected -- 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 a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood. But he knows he is outnumbered... and quickly running out of time.
Will Smith stars in the third adaptation of Richard Matheson's classic science-fiction novel about a lone human survivor in a post-apocalyptic world dominated by vampires. This new version somewhat alters Matheson's central hook, i.e., the startling idea that an ordinary man, Robert Neville, spends his days roaming a desolated city and his nights in a house sealed off from longtime neighbors who have become bloodsucking fiends. In the new film, Smith's Neville is a military scientist charged with finding a cure for a virus that turns people into crazed, hairless, flesh-eating zombies. Failing to complete his work in time--and after enduring a personal tragedy--Neville finds himself alone in Manhattan, his natural immunity to the virus keeping him alive. With an expressive German shepherd his only companion, Neville is a hunter-gatherer in sunlight, hiding from the mutants at night in his Washington Square town house and methodically conducting experiments in his ceaseless quest to conquer the disease.

The film's first half almost suggests that I Am Legend could be one of the finest movies of 2007. Director Francis Lawrence's extraordinary, computer-generated images of a decaying New York City reveal weeds growing through the cracks of familiar streets that are also overrun by deer and prowled by lions. It's impossible not to be fascinated by such a realistically altered cityscape, reverting to a natural environment, through which Smith moves with a weirdly enviable freedom, offset by his wariness over whatever is lurking in the dark of bank vaults and parking garages. Lawrence and screenwriters Mark Protosevich and Akiva Goldsman wisely build suspense by withholding images of the monsters until a peak scene of horror well into the story. It must be said, however, that the computer-enhanced creatures don't look half as interesting as they might have had the filmmakers adhered more to Matheson's vampire-nightmare vision. I Am Legend is ultimately noteworthy for Smith's remarkable performance as a man so lonely he talks to mannequins in the shops he frequents. The film's latter half goes too far in portraying Smith's Neville as a pitiable man with a messianic mission, but this lapse into bathos does nothing to take away from the visual and dramatic accomplishments of its first hour. --Tom Keogh

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