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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 wh... read more read more...ile 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 population of New York City -- and perhaps the world -- has been transformed into carnivorous bloodsuckers that fear the light and live solely to spread their contagion to any remaining living creature that crosses their path. It's been three years since civilization came to an end, and the loneliness has taken a devastating toll on Neville. By day he scours the city for food and supplies while sending out desperate radio messages in hopes that someone might respond, and by night he attempts to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus by experimenting with his own blood. But time is running out for Neville as the legions of infected watch his every move from the safety of the shadows, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. They, too, long to learn the secret that lurks in Neville's blood, though they will have to take caution while attempting to procure it because Neville will sooner die attempting to slay every last one of them than willingly giving up a single drop. Previously adapted for the screen in the 1964 Vincent Price frightener The Last Man on Earth and the 1971 Charlton Heston action film The Omega Man, Matheson's novelette also served as the inspiration for George A. Romero's groundbreaking zombie classic Night of the Living Dead. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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PG-13, 1 hr. 40 min.

Directed by: Francis Lawrence

Release Date: December 14, 2007

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DVD Release Date: March 18, 2008

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  • sanjurosamurai
    March 31, 2012
    sanjurosamurai
    i loved this movie. will smith did an excellent job and the film flowed well. no time was wasted on the meaningless, i felt that every scene was essential. to see smith create community with dummies and risk his life for his dog shows humanities need for relationship. this is... read more defintely one of the better films of 2007.
  • FiLmCrAzY
    March 29, 2012
    FiLmCrAzY
    I absolutely hated this movie, i have now seen it three times in order to have an actual opinion on this movie as it was ment to be critically acclaimed and a very good movie, however i hate it, it is probably the single most boring movie i have watched in a long time.
    I didnt li... read moreke the story and for me it felt long winded and it felt i had been watching it longer than an hour and a half! Its a real hard movie to sit and watch through to the end!
  • fb1463751009
    March 9, 2012
    fb1463751009
    How did I forget to review this movie? When the movie gets tense, man, does it get tense. Will Smith was incredibly captivating and his performance alone is so well done that it ALMOST overtakes the bad of this movie. I Am Legend has absolutely horrible character development, an ... read moreincredibly bad ending, and horrible CGI. In the end, instead of thinking to yourself, "Oh my gosh, how is Will Smith gonna get out of this?" you think, "Damn... that's a lot of vampire dudes." That shows me that this movie has a weak narrative.
  • aquateen2
    March 8, 2012
    aquateen2
    Despite it's predictability and primarily questionable special effects there's a fair bit too enjoy about I am legend. When I learnt about the cheesy formulaic premise I was expecting something a lot stupider. Dont get me wrong , there is a lot of noticeable plot holes that were ... read morea bit annoying but it was forgivable because of many redeeeming qualities such as Will Smith's breathtaking performance. It's a thoughtfully made apocalypse/rapture flick that rises up against it's over used storyline and surprisingly goes to great depth with character development and provides a few decent shocks.
  • fb223580
    February 21, 2012
    fb223580
    The exquisite emotions and contortions on Will Smith's face made me love, laugh, cry and half-cover my eyes fearing for his life. The first half of this movie was like Cast Away, but sexy. Deliberately stretched, muscle-tensing suspense, badass zombie-charring action and gratui... read moretous ab displaysâ"â"solid entertainment.

    What kept this movie from 5 stars was that all the profound emotions and societal motifs it primed me for were not consummated in the end. Hearing what the original story was gave me poetic, haunting chills. That's what this movie could have been. Hopped on and made myself comfortable in the "Alternate ending!!!!!!11" bandwagon.
  • phubbs1
    February 9, 2012
    phubbs1
    There are two problems with this flick mainly, one, the idea and look of of the film is now been done sooooo often, recently with '28 Days' and 'Weeks Later' in London and to be fair they are a much better grittier afair than this Hollywood cgi offering. The whole idea of civiliz... read moreation turning into zombies, vampires or being wiped out etc..has been done to death and I'm afraid this film is just too late.

    The other problem is the miscast of Will Smith, Smith is an OK actor, mainly a comedic or action based actor, and he just can't pull this off. Scenes involving sadness, grief or loneliness are just not fully realised by Smith because he cant get around his comedy background, he just doesn't fit the role in my opinion, a case of big name for big film I'm afraid. The film is actually OK, the effects of a desolate NY are great and haunting, its not very scary but it does bring a slight chill in certain silent moments. The night creatures are a bit plastic looking I'm afraid, a little bit too 'Golem' hehe.

    I didn't like the 'Resident Evil' style zombie dogs either, too silly and the score is a tad flat but overall its a good film just nothing special and not as good as '28 Days Later'. One thing puzzles me...how did lions and wild gazelle or whatever end up grazing and living in NY City? OK everybodies dead but how the hell does that happen?
  • moonrivers
    January 12, 2012
    moonrivers
    What do zombies eat when they run out of fresh victims? The answer, of course, is obvious. I only ask because zombies are perhaps the cinematic flavor of the day and their popularity gives one to muse as to why: could it be that - on some level - that is how we view each othe... read morer, as mindless, soulless, eating, walking viruses? Smith is a likable enough leading man here as he attempts to save us from zombie apocalypse, to save us from ourselves.
  • scottgreen96
    October 26, 2011
    scottgreen96
    So realistic, it makes you think, A* acting from Will Smith as per usual, Alice Braga makes a fresh appearance, and the mutants a give a refreshingly upbeat performance, good on you Francis Lawrence.
  • neoshredder
    October 18, 2011
    neoshredder
    This movie is exceptionally good. As some of you already know, this movie is based off of the book, of the same name, it follows the source material surprisingly well...except for one part I'll get to later. The beginning of the movie was really good. Will Smith's acting talent r... read moreeally shows in this movie, all his emotions seem very genuine, and that fear/anger filled scream of his is burned into my mind, and that's a good thing. He plays a lone survivor named Robert Neville, who has survived what is later revealed (in flashback sequences) to be one major pandemic of a virus, he is the only one person in the city of New York(possibly the world) with a natural immunity to it. This however, is no flu. It mutates and changes its victims into hairless, sun-sensitive, super strong and fast creatures. Think "30 Days of Night" vampires only they can't talk. Anyway, the beginning also introduces you to the only other main character in the movie, Robert's dog, the only other uninfected being in the city. The creatures can't come out at night since sunlight kills them, so during the day, Robert is free to drive around the big empty city and socialize with some of the many mannequin residents he has set up around the city. It really creates a believable situation of how one man is able to keep his sanity after so long being separated from any sort of civilization. There are a lot of genuine scares in the movie as well. When Robert was sneaking around the dark, creature infested building trying to find his run-away dog, it was just so tense and terrifying, the cinematography really does it's job right in this scene to give you a view from his perspective. Just great. You really get attached to Robert and his canine friend, and you really hope that nothing bad happens to them throughout the movie. In addition to being the only survivor, Robert is also a scientist of some sort, desperately wasting the nights away in his tightly secured mansion, trying to create a cure for the virus from his own blood. Pretty much just a great movie...except for one part. The ending, it sucks...hard. If you read the book, you already know the original ending. Robert finds out that the creatures are actually intelligent, reasoning creatures and he's been going around murdering them, kidnapping them, and preforming insane medical experiments on the leader's daughter.(basically what drove them to attack his mansion) He saves the daughter and finally comes to see that he is the monster of their legends....yeah none of that happens. They hint that the creatures are intelligent throughout the movie; laying out complex traps, the same creature showing up in a leader position, but they just throw that all away at the end. I'm not going to spoil the movie ending, but it's kind of predictable and not nearly as deep as the other ending. What's stranger is that this ending is available as a special feature on the DVD, so they actually DID make it, but at the last second decided the other ending would be better. I guess when you add emotion and thought to mindless killing it just becomes waaaaay too smart and deep for the crowd to enjoy. Other than that aspect though, I would recommend checking this out, but do yourself a favor, play the alternate ending instead, much better.
  • spielberg00
    October 18, 2011
    spielberg00
    Think THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS...then add zombies. [FULL REVIEW: COMING SOON.]

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Bob Mondello
October 18, 2008
Bob Mondello, NPR.org

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

David Ansen
March 31, 2008
David Ansen, Newsweek

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

Rex Reed
January 4, 2008
Rex Reed, New York Observer

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

Tom Charity
January 4, 2008
Tom Charity, CNN.com

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 ... Full Review

Joe Baltake
December 25, 2007
Joe Baltake, Passionate Moviegoer

Francis Lawrence's 'I Am Legend': The First Half - Its Better Half - Plays Like An Extremely Effective 'Anti-Michael Vick Flick' Full Review

Richard Roeper
December 17, 2007
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

Will Smith is in prime form.

Joe Morgenstern
December 14, 2007
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

The herky-jerky script, by Mark Protosevich and Akiva Goldsman, favors vignettes and set pieces over dramatic development, and those damned zombies are everywhere, overwhelming the proceedings with th... Full Review

Stephanie Zacharek
December 14, 2007
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

I Am Legend is a blockbuster like no other, one that finds its grandness in modesty. It's a star vehicle with a star who knows his place in the universe. Full Review

Wesley Morris
December 14, 2007
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe

I Am Legend is actually about the last man on earth played by one of the last real movie stars on earth. Full Review

Roger Ebert
December 14, 2007
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

The movie works well while it's running, although it raises questions that later only mutate in our minds. Full Review

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    • Robert Neville: Light up the darkness.
    • 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.
    • Robert Neville: I... I promised a friend I would say hello to you today. Please say hello to me. Please say hello to me.
    • Robert Neville: God didn't do this. We did!
    • Robert Neville: All right, let me tell you about your "God's plan". Six billion people on Earth when the infection hit. KV had a ninety-percent kill rate, that's five point four billion people dead. Crashed and bled out. Dead. Less than one-percent immunity. That left twelve million healthy people, like you, me, and Ethan. The other five hundred and eighty-eight million turned into your dark seekers, and then they got hungry and they killed and fed on everybody. Everybody! Every *single* person that you or I has ever known is dead! Dead! There is no god!
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