I Am Legend (2007)

All Critics (211) | Top Critics (50) | Fresh (147) | Rotten (63) | DVD (32)

Smith turns in a terrific performance, nailing Neville's angst while allowing room for humor.

October 18, 2008 Full Review | Comment (1)

Calvin Wilson

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Top Critic

When they do, banging their heads against plate glass as movie zombies always do, I started needing something else to think about.

October 18, 2008 Full Review | Comment (1)

Bob Mondello

NPR.org

Top Critic

I wouldn't dream of giving away the ending, but it's not likely to satisfy either the action crowd or Matheson fans.

March 31, 2008 Full Review | Comments (5)

David Ansen

Newsweek

Top Critic

I Am Legend is a grenade that goes off when least expected. It has more horror than heart, but it is never boring.

January 4, 2008 Full Review

Rex Reed

New York Observer

Top Critic

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.

January 4, 2008 Full Review

Tom Charity

CNN.com

Top Critic

You're left gawping at $100 million-worth of eye-popping futuristic B-movie.

December 28, 2007 Full Review

Nigel Floyd

Time Out

Top Critic

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.

July 14, 2011 Full Review

Alex Fletcher

Digital Spy

Inevitably, ideas give way to special-effects

August 27, 2009 Full Review

Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

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.

July 30, 2009 Full Review

Craig Phillips

GreenCine

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.

April 23, 2009 Full Review

Peter Keough

Boston Phoenix

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.

January 27, 2009 Full Review

Felix Gonzalez Jr.

DVD Review

Smith still manages to find something touching and occasionally even tragic in the character.

October 18, 2008 Full Review

John Hazelton

Screen International

For everything that is good about it, though, I Am Legend struggles against two primary problems.

October 18, 2008 Full Review

James Kendrick

Q Network Film Desk

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.

October 18, 2008 Full Review

Scott Nash

Three Movie Buffs

The movie is simply okay. Not awful, not great. Definitely beneath Smith's abilities, though.

October 18, 2008 Full Review

David Medsker

Bullz-Eye.com

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.

October 18, 2008

Tyler Hanley

Palo Alto Weekly

Will Smith shows some promise trying to find a cure for a horrific virus, but somehow the plot becomes Shrek, Bob Marley and God trying to save the world.

August 27, 2008 Full Review | Comments (6)

Jeff Bayer

The Scorecard Review

With "I Am Legend," Will Smith has accomplished what Tom Hanks did back in 2000: Effectively star in a movie that involves very little interaction with other human counterparts.

May 20, 2008 Full Review | Comments (3)

Adam Tobias

Watertown Daily Times

The monsters are routine CGI creations, crudely animated and unconvincing. In a film of such visual majesty and surprisingly weighty drama, they present an unfortunate and needless distraction.

April 10, 2008

Rossiter Drake

San Francisco Examiner

...a triumph of set design and CGI over story line or credibility.

March 9, 2008 Full Review | Comments (4)

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

If a horror movie is of true holy-bejesus caliber, you should be exhaling with relief at the end instead of thinking, 'Gee, that went fast!'

February 29, 2008 Full Review | Comment (1)

Tricia Olszewski

Washington City Paper

Eerie and breathtakingly evocative, the solid I Am Legend nevertheless tries to be too many things to too many people, weighed down with cheap horror-film shock effects and barely passable CGI, instead of trusting in its legitimately captivating

February 28, 2008 Full Review

Brandon Fibbs

Colorado Springs Gazette

The exacting demands of filmgoing audiences have finally drawn out the heart of this book. (Disclosure: I have not read it, but now am willing to. For the antidote to this impulse, see The Omega Man.) Adding a dog probably didn't hurt either.

February 16, 2008 Full Review

Karina Montgomery

Cinerina

• 1. Anna: This is his legend.
  – Submitted by Sam H (10 months ago)
• 1. 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]
  – Submitted by Troy N (11 months ago)
• 1. Robert Neville: Light up the darkness.
  – Submitted by Ahmed I (14 months ago)
• 1. 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.
  – Submitted by Sidney L (15 months ago)
• 1. Robert Neville: I... I promised a friend I would say hello to you today. Please say hello to me. Please say hello to me.
  – Submitted by Rocky F (15 months ago)
• 1. Robert Neville: God didn't do this. We did!
  – Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)