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Reviews Counted:204
Fresh:140
Rotten:64
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: I Am Legend overcomes questionable special effects and succeeds largely on the strength of Will Smith's mesmerizing performance.
Theatrical Release:Dec 14, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $256,339,571
Synopsis: Will Smith is Robert Neville, the lone survivor in a New York City where streets are overgrown and deer gambol among deserted automobiles. Following an epidemic, the Earth's population has been... [More]
Starring: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Dash Mihok, Salli Richardson-Whitfield
Director: Francis Lawrence
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I Am Legend feels like a work in progress, the sort of movie you can bet will get the director’s cut treatment when it’s released on DVD. In the meantime, we have a film that doesn’t make sense and boasts dire special effects.
The depiction of the eerily overgrown city is one of the first genuine and unobtrusive testaments to the groundbreaking power of computer-generated effects in years.
Despite stunning visuals, it is a B-movie.
A film that blends a blockbustery bluster with a gaunt apocalyptic sobriety to good effect that is only compromised by its latter stages.
Though it fails to do justice to Matheson’s novel, /I Am Legend/ isn’t without merit, particularly in its stately, moody build-up. Unfortunately, the final act squanders the tension in favour of daft religious symbolism and silly CG zombies. Shame.
Issues of depth aside, this is as distracting an event movie as there’s been all year. But it’s the stuff of multiplex, not legend.
You’re left gawping at $100 million-worth of eye-popping futuristic B-movie.
Much better than any self-respecting science fiction fan could have hoped for . . .
Enjoyable, impressively designed thriller with a strong performance by Will Smith, though it's let down by a disappointing ending and some dodgy effects work.
While the sun shines, it’s a four-star thriller with a superb turn from Smith. When the moon rises, it’s a two-star horror cartoon with some of the worst FX we’ve seen all year. So, really, it has to average out at…
When I am Legend reaches for the tissues in the third act, director Lawrence loses his grip on the film entirely
Francis Lawrence's 'I Am Legend': The First Half - Its Better Half - Plays Like An Extremely Effective 'Anti-Michael Vick Flick'
It's a well-made and chillingly effective zombie movie, but that's all it is.
While the last half hour is a weak and unnecessary pat ending typical of Hollywood, Lawrence wins me over on the first half, and I absolutely loved what was on display here...
...virtually a one-man show for [Will] Smith, who commands the screen.
Thanks to the botched cancer cure, 'social de-evolution has occurred,' says Will. 'And typical human behavior is now entirely absent.' In other words, it's another night on the town with Lindsay Lohan!
... does its job very well: we jump, we cringe, we even weep. Sometimes it goes just a little beyond the predictable as well.
The opening act is too magnificent for the terrible ending to wreck it.
It's a shame that Smith's heartfelt work and preparation doesn't pay off with better background and CGI work.
The German shepherd makes this worth seeing.
December 08, 2008:
Will Smith Outlines "Fantastic Prequel Idea" for I Am Legend 
Never mind all that stuff about the next "I Am Legend" movie being a sequel -- Will Smith gave the straight scoop to Collider recently, and outlined his ideas for the "Legend"... More...
November 25, 2008:
A Sequel for I Am Legend?
It's utterly unverified, but AICN has started a rumor that the upcoming "I Am Legend" prequel may not be a prequel at all, but will instead pick up the story of Will Smith's... More...
September 25, 2008:
Will Smith Is Still Legend
Warner Bros. is moving ahead with its rumored "I Am Legend" prequel, and has hired D.B. Weiss to write a script based on an outline by Will Smith, Francis Lawrence, Akiva... More...
July 28, 2008:
Weekly Ketchup: TRON, I Am Legend, Hercules, Red Sonja, And More
In this special edition Weekly Ketchup, the sequels, prequels and comic book heroes keep coming, as we have the latest from Comic Con. More...
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