I Am Legend (2007)
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 210
Fresh: 147 | Rotten: 63
I Am Legend overcomes questionable special effects and succeeds largely on the strength of Will Smith's mesmerizing performance.
Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 49
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 21
I Am Legend overcomes questionable special effects and succeeds largely on the strength of Will Smith's mesmerizing performance.
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Adapted from acclaimed author Richard Matheson's influential novelette of the same name, Constantine director Francis Lawrence's I Am Legend follows the last man on Earth as he struggles to survive while fending off the infected survivors of a devastating vampiric plague. A brilliant scientist who raced to discover a cure for the man-made virus as humanity came crumbling down all around him, Robert Neville (Will Smith) was inexplicably immune to the highly contagious superbug. Now the entire
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Cast
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Will Smith
Robert Neville -
Alice Braga
Anna -
Charlie Tahan
Ethan -
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Willow Smith
Marley -
Darrell Foster
Mike (Military Escort) -
April Grace
TV Personality -
Dash Mihok
Alpha Male -
Joanna Numata
Alpha Female -
Abbey
Sam -
Kona
Sam -
Samuel Glen
Jay (Military Driver) -
James McCauley
Male Evacuee -
Martin Ireland
Woman Evacuee -
Pedro Mojica
Sergeant -
Anthony Mazza
Evacuation Cop -
Steve Cirbus
Military Police -
Calista Hill
Little Girl Evacuee -
Gabriella Hill
Little Girl Evacuee -
Madeline Hill
Little Girl Evacuee -
Adhi Sharma
Military Scanning Tech -
Tyree Simpson
Evacuation Cop #2 -
Blake Lange
Coast Guard Ground Crew... -
Alexander DiPersia
Male Evacueee #2 -
Abraham Sparrow
Male Evacuee #3 -
Patrick Fraley
President -
Caitlin McHugh
Special Blond Model -
Deborah Collins
Civilian -
Exo
Infected -
Lynná Davis
Infected -
Moses Harris Jr.
Infected -
Eric Jenkins
Infected -
Heather Lang
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Katherine Brook
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Anika Ellis
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Kennis Hawkins
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Kelly Reed
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Drew Leary
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Vince Cupone
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John Kyle Grady
Infected -
Marc Inniss
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Grasan Kingsberry
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Asa Liebmann
Infected -
Deborah Lohse
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Luke Miller
Infected -
Okwui Okpokwasili
Infected -
Paradox Pollack
Infected -
Hollie K. Seidel
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Mark Steger
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Anthony Vincent
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Jon-Paul Mateo
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Courtney Munch
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Erin Owen
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Will Rawls
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Hannah Sim
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Charlie Sutton
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Greg Wattkis
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Ian McLaughlin
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Kim Murphy
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Victor Paguia
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William Schultz
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Eric Spear
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David Hamilton Thomson
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Mike Patton
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When they do, banging their heads against plate glass as movie zombies always do, I started needing something else to think about.
I wouldn't dream of giving away the ending, but it's not likely to satisfy either the action crowd or Matheson fans.
I Am Legend is a grenade that goes off when least expected. It has more horror than heart, but it is never boring.
So often, sci-fi is overproduced, but I Am Legend doesn't look like a CGI extravaganza. It looks like an edgy suspense movie shot on the fly in New York City after the fall. And because of that, it's all the more effective.
You're left gawping at $100 million-worth of eye-popping futuristic B-movie.
Francis Lawrence's 'I Am Legend': The First Half - Its Better Half - Plays Like An Extremely Effective 'Anti-Michael Vick Flick'
It's a better-than-average blockbuster, which sweeps around some large ideas and interesting themes, but never delves for long enough to make this film a true classic.
Inevitably, ideas give way to special-effects
I Am Legend is three film genres for the price of one: Science Fiction, Action, and Horror, and while it's no classic in any one arena it remains edgy fun.
This is no graphic shoot-'em-up but an intelligent, if sometimes sentimental, exploration of human decency and responsibility that ponders the limits of rationality and faith.
... I Am Legend stands as a nice-looking but empty film that is high on jolts but short on emotion, horror, and interest.
There are some good points, but there are too many ineffectual aspects that keep I Am Legend from being the sophisticated film it was clearly meant to be.
Smith turns in a terrific performance, nailing Neville's angst while allowing room for humor.
Smith still manages to find something touching and occasionally even tragic in the character.
For everything that is good about it, though, I Am Legend struggles against two primary problems.
It left me highly entertained, since out of the original story the filmmakers have created a different, but exciting and tense story filled with action, suspense and a lead character you can truly care about.
The movie is simply okay. Not awful, not great. Definitely beneath Smith's abilities, though.
I Am Legend is far from a feel-good film; it's a familiar (for fans of Stephen King's The Stand or Heston's Omega Man) post-apocalyptic adventure rife with chills and hopelessness.
Audience Reviews for I Am Legend
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- Anna: This is his legend.
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- Robert Neville: The people who are trying to make the world worse are not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness. [quoting Bob Marley]
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- Robert Neville: Light up the darkness.
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- Anna: In 2009 a deadly virus burned though out civilisation, pushing human kind to the edge of extiniction, Dr. Robert Nevillie dedecated his life to the discovery of a cure and the restoration of humanity. On September 9th 2012 at approximately 8.49pm he discovered that cure. and at 8.52 he gave his life to defend it. We are his legacy. This is his legend.
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- Robert Neville: I... I promised a friend I would say hello to you today. Please say hello to me. Please say hello to me.
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- Robert Neville: God didn't do this. We did!
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Latest News on I Am Legend
June 14, 2012:
Will Smith "Probably" Won't Appear in the Next I Am Legend Movie"I don't want to be the sequel guy."
February 17, 2012:
Warner Bros. Still Mulling I Am Legend PrequelArash Amel ("The Expatriate") has been hired to write a script; Will Smith is currently not...
May 3, 2011:
Francis Lawrence Says the I Am Legend Prequel Is DeadStill waiting for that "I Am Legend" prequel that was in the works? Director Francis Lawrence says...
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