- The last man on earth is not alone. Will Smith portrays that lone survivor in I Am Legend, the action epic fusing heart-pounding excitement with a mind-blowing vision of a desolated Manhattan.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 plague victims lu
DescriptionStudio product: Warner Home Video Release Date: 12/09/2008 Rating: Pg13Amazon. comWill Smith stars in the third adaptation of the classical science of Richard Matheson’s novel about a fictional survivor of the solitary man in a post-apocalyptic world dominated by vampires. This new version somewhat alters Matheson central hook, i. e. , The frightening thought that the ordinary man, Robert Neville, spends his days roaming a desolated city and his nights in a house isolated from longtime neighbors who have become bloodsucking demons. In the new film, Neville Smith is a military scientist charged with finding a cure for a virus that turns people into crazy, hairless, flesh-eating zombies. Do not complete its 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 night in his house, instead of the city of Washington and the orderly conduct experiments in his ceaseless quest to conquer the disease. First half of the film almost suggests that I Am Legend could be one of the finest films of 2007. Extraordinary images, computer generated film director Francis Lawrence of decomposition of New York shows weeds growing through the cracks of familiar streets that are also overrun by deer and prowled by lions. It is impossible not to be fascinated by such a realistically altered cityscape, reverting to a natural environment, through which Smith moves with an oddly enviable freedom, offset by its caution on anything that is lurking in the dark vaults banks and parking garages. Lawrence and screenwriters Mark Protosevich and Akiva Goldsman wisely build suspense by withholding the images of the scene monsters until a peak of horror well into the story. It must be said, however, that the computer enhanced creatures do not look half as interesting as they might have the most respected filmmakers Vampire Matheson-nightmare. I Am Legend is finally to note the remarkable performance of Smith as a man so lonely he talks to mannequins in the shops he frequents. Second half of the film goes too far in representing Neville Smith as a man with a pitiful messianic mission, but the decline in pathos does nothing to remove the visual and dramatic accomplishments of its first hour. - Tom Keogh
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