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I Am Legend
Movie Stats & Links |
| Starring: |
Will Smith, Alice Braga, Salli
Richardson |
| MPAA Rated: |
PG-13 |
| Released By: |
Warner Bros. |
| Web Site: |
www.iamlegend.com |
| Kiddie Movie: |
Only if you want
them having nightmares and never taking a vaccine again. |
| Date Movie: |
There's a good
chance she'll jump and grab your hand, or vice versa. |
| Gratuitous Sex: |
No, the mutant
humans don't get it on. |
| Gratuitous
Violence: |
It's PG-13, so the
action is started but the end result is only implied. |
| Action: |
There's some
running away from the mutant humans. |
| Laughs: |
Only a few
chuckles. |
| Memorable
Scene: |
I'll just say it's
a scene with Sam, his dog, in the lab. |
| Memorable
Quote: |
"I like Shrek." |
| Directed By: |
Francis Lawrence |
| Produced By: |
Akiva Goldsman,
James Lassiter, David Heyman, Neal Moritz |
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I Am Legend
A Movie Review |
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"I Am Legend" is one of those movies that goes to show
why I’m not a successful filmmaker. Sure, first there’s the
fact that I have no filmmaking experience, but it’s probably
because my ending to the movie would have gone maniacally
different than the one fed to us in the theater. I’ll do my
best not to spoil it too much.
From the trailers for the film we get the basic premise, that Robert Neville (Will Smith) is the last
person like us living in New York City, and maybe the world. The reason for this
is because some dumb-ass, woman scientist found a cure for
cancer that eventually turned people into creatures who
couldn’t go out in the sunlight, were hyper-violent,
hyper-strong, and liked to eat people and animals who were
immune to the new virus. Robert’s days are dictated by the
sun, allowing him to go out during the day to try to capture
meat (usually in the form of deer who have found their way
to Manhattan), scavenge for canned goods and supplies by
breaking into other people’s abandoned apartments, and since
he is also a virologist, hoping to use his blood that is
immune to the virus plaguing the world, to find a cure. His
trusty dog, Sam, helps him in his travels and daily routine,
and as the movie is busy showing us this routine of Robert,
it also gives us flashbacks explaining how things went wrong
and what happened to Robert’s family.
As the movie progresses, though, we begin to see kinks in
the armor that is Robert’s life, of a man obsessed with
finding a cure, and a man who, after having no contact with
any other being that can talk to him, begins to lose his
mind. And it is in one scene of losing his mind that the
wheels begin to come off of a film that was doing it’s best
to entertain me. In trying not to give too much away, let’s
just say that we find out Robert isn’t alone in the world,
and that’s all I’m going to say about that.
Because saying anything at this point will give away some
key events and how the movie progresses at the point
Robert meets Anna (Alice Braga), I suppose this will be a
shorter than normal review as I just wrap things up.
For about an hour, or maybe it was an hour and a quarter,
I was really digging "I Am Legend" and thought Will Smith
was doing a fantastic job maintaining what was really a
one-man movie. The effects were great, the infected humans
were great, and although there were a few plot issues that
seemed kind of convoluted, it was easy to get through them.
But then the ending scenes came adding more convolutedness
(and an obvious foreshadowing) to the movie, and I lost
interest in what at first was a lesson in human survival.
So I’ll let this review stand where it is giving "I Am
Legend" 3 ½ stars out of 5. I suppose if I do a DVD review
I’ll give you my thoughts on my possible endings, or I might
give them up to Stu Gotz during our next podcast. For now I’ll just
let you go to the movie, maybe be freaked out by the
infected humans, and make your own conclusion
if you like the last part of the movie.
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!!
L8R!!! |
