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List Price: $34.99 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 5728
Released: March 18, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 11/11/2008 Run time: 100 minutes Rating: Pg13
Description of I Am Legend (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition):
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
I Am Legend (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition) Reviews:
Smith good with limited storyline 
2009-12-28 - I had anticipated a much better plot and storyline for this movie. While Smith did a wonderful job portraying the character, the ending was abrupt and needed further development.
Will Smith does the job in I Am Legend 
2009-12-26 - Immune to an infectious virus that turns kills and turns survivors into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles to live a somewhat "normal" life as he valiantly struggles to find a cure. When he does, he must make a choice between saving himself and saving the world.
I Am Legend
2009-12-18 - Big Will has no problem holding the screen. Will Smith is solid, believable, and entertaining. Setting is done very well. Some intense scenes. Overall extremly great movie.
Will Smith + Zombies = 5 Stars and a Must have!
2009-12-15 - I love zombies and I love Will Smith. That said, this was still a top of the line zombie movie (which isn't easy!), and Smith was at his best. I cry every time I watch this (when he parts with his family and the dog scene). The special effects are top notch and the story is good, gripping, depressing and hopeful. A must see for everyone! Even those who don't love zombies or Will Smith! But really, how can you not?
Disposable entertainment
2009-12-13 - It's a good movie, but not a classic. Too many plot holes....
For example.....
If this plague was as swift as the movie claims, and the vampires as strong as the tacky CGI implies, how did a fort get built by one man of that magnatude?
If the vampires as as strong ang as brutal as the CGI implies, how did a woman and her little kid who never syas a word drive through miles supposedly without a scratch? At one point she recuses Will Smith with an onslaught of light, but when her vehicle is shown later, there's just headlights and her supplies on the roof of the vehicle.
I could go on and on about all the things that made me scratch my head...like lions and jungle animals in NYC...how did they get so plentiful in 3 years? etc....how did he build the lights in the ground around his apartment if he waits on the dock at noon everyday...etc..
