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 enlarge | Director: Francis Lawrence
Actors: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Salli Richardson, Willow Smith
Studio: Warner Bros.
Category: Movie
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Rating:  625 reviews
Sales Rank: 2601
Genre: Science Fiction - Action
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 101
ASIN: B0017XD3OY
Theatrical Release Date: December 14, 2007
Release Date: October 24, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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 Hope against bleak odds October 18, 2008
Because "I Am Legend" departs from the zombie formula of its predecessors is the reason it surpasses the others. Invasion, Body Snatchers, Omega Man, and the like thrill with fear. Legend takes the story to a personal level, one man's hopeless battle to survive and give hope for the world. Will gives a moving performance that stays with you. It's on the basis of memorable story and images that Legend is far more resonant than most movies I've ever seen. I love the Bob Marley tie in, having hope when life is at its bleakest. A standout movie that thrills and dares to depth.
 S'OK October 18, 2008
Not bad, not great, a few good moments, some tedious ones, could have been better had a few more things been explained or a couple plot holes been tidied up. Overall not a film to spend too much time thinking about as opposed to just passively watching sans deep analysis, a thing which tends to erode the suspended disbelief needed to make I Am Legend work. Will Smith earned his paycheck here more convincingly as a soldier than as a scientist, but on the other hand the mutants he battled were one of the neater CGI foes to come along in a monk's age. I Am Legend hasn't lingered in my mind the way a truly good movie will but I recall being pleased enough when I first saw its story of one man and his loyal dog surviving in a disquietingly vacant post-epidemic Manhattan. So, your call here. If you like Will Smith movies, grim futures, recumbent humanity and cannibalistic mutants-cum-monsters, you'll probably enjoy I Am Legend. If you're one of those "I Am Analytical" sorts, well, maybe a more cerebral cinematic outing is your poison. Either way, go have some fun. Jeez, everybody seems so serious anymore!
 I am Legend October 17, 2008
I loved this movie . I originally saw the movie in theaters but, loved it even more when I got the chance to see some of the clips that were not shown in the original showing. Great Movie.
I agree with the other Reviews,see it for Will Smith October 14, 2008
Will Smith is one of the greatest Actors of our generation."I am Legend"should have been the film that got him the awards he deserves,but its not the one,even though you are interested in the movie mostly because of him.
A new version of the 1954 novella 'I Am Legend' October 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Colonel Robert Neville, also a doctor, is the last man alive in New York City. He broadcasts daily on AM radio asking for people to meet up with him at what looks to be an old naval base by the water. Neville and his German Shepherd Sam show up everyday looking for other survivors of the virus, named KV. Once thought to be the cure for cancer, the engineered virus mutated and spread airborne, killing people and radically altering those who didn't die into zombie-like, mindless beings.
Neville spends his days hunting deer, loose from the park or the zoo, and picking up supplies for his house. His nights are spent inside his altered house, shuttered and barricaded against the beasts of the night. Beneath the house is his lab, where he continues to work diligently on a cure for those infected monsters that prowl the streets at night, hungry for blood. He sets traps to catch the zombies for test subjects using his serums. At last, Neville believes he's found a serum that will work.
During an excursion in town, Neville notices one of his store mannequins has been moved, and when he investigates he's caught in a trap and unconscious until nightfall. Who moved the mannequin and who set the trap? Is someone else still alive and uninfected? Neville and Sam must make it back to the car before sundown, but the hour is late and the darkness is falling. Something bad is about to happen.
To those of you who've read the classic 1954 novella, 'I Am Legend', by Richard Matheson, the movie does not follow the book very well. Other movies have been made from the novella, including the 1964 movie 'The Last Man On Earth' and 'The Omega Man' filmed in 1971 starring Charlton Heston. In this version, the infected are more like zombies than vampires, and more aggressive. The film had been modernized (the incidents in the book take place in 1976) which is more attractive to today's audiences, and there's a lot more action involved. The movie is more external (action) which is well suited for a film version than the book, which is more internal (introspective), but what I really didn't like was how they twisted the ideal of Neville's "legend" status.
Will Smith does an excellent performance as Neville, and the atmosphere of a deserted New York City was captured quite nicely. The zombies are pretty cool, though I don't know who dreamed up the hairless idea. Sam the dog is added to the film (not in the book) but Sam stole the show for me. (I love German Shepherds!) If you're a Matheson fan and have enjoyed both novella and the other remakes of this story, then 'I Am Legend' is well worth the purchase. Enjoy!
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