Monday December 10, 2007 3:14 pm
‘I Am Legend’: I Am Unimpressed
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Warner Bros, Action, Adaptation, Drama, Horror, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Upcoming Releases
The thin plot. The ridiculously unbelievable scenario. The misconceptions of biological warfare. If I Am Legend has a single saving grace, it must be mega-movie star Will Smith. Everything this man gets involved in turns to gold, and that’s the only reason I Am Legend will survive at the box office.
Okay, here’s the plot. Scientists create a virus, and this germ accidentally kills every single living human on Earth. Not the animals, mind you – just the humans. All but for Robert Neville, a military virologist played by Smith who has managed to survive. How? Well, that’s not really important to the movie-makers. By the way, there are some human-like creatures who have had odd effects from the infection and turn zombie-like. Zombies. That’s right, everybody, billion-dollar movie star Will Smith is starring in what is essentially a zombie flick.
Read More Smith’s character searches vainly for survivors, clatters around his former townhouse, and tries to trap these zombies to find some sort of cure for their ailment. The virus which wiped out humanity left the animals unscathed, vehicles still work, electricity still magically happens. It’s all going to be incredibly difficult for movie audiences to swallow, but I Am Legend isn’t about a frightening reality. It’s about special effects. Isn’t everything, these days? The ending will be the hardest thing for fans to swallow…and that’s saying a lot.
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Comments:
Saw it yesterday. For the most part it lives up to the hype. It’s actually pretty believable and it’s scary. Will Smith is awesome in it.
so not one animal was left unscathed, huh? and what did this movie have to do with biological warfare? And the so called zombies are actually more like vampires, so this is essentially an apocalyptic vampire movie. did you actually watch the film?
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