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| I Am Legend [2007] | ![I Am Legend [2007]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mXDdRR1sL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Francis Lawrence
Actors: Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Dash Mihok, Will Smith, Salli Richardson
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  129 reviews
Sales Rank: 76
Format: Pal
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Running Time: 96 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 7321902294476
ASIN: B0012YG7LE
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: April 21, 2008
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Amazon.co.uk Review
A mainstream Hollywood actor who seems committed to igniting science fiction features, Will Smith chalked up another sizeable hit in the shape of I Am Legend, the latest cinematic adaptation of Richard Matheson's book of the same name. This time, Smith plays Robert Neville, the last man on an Earth emptied by a deadly virus that he continues to try and find a working vaccine for. With just his dog for company, and the fear of the vampires that haunt the night never far away, I Am Legend quickly establishes itself as a taut, highly watchable blockbuster, with plenty of reasons to gnaw at your nail. Where I Am Legend really scores is in the excellent first half. The scenes of a deserted New York are quite staggering, and it's also to Smith's immense credit that he holds the attention even though for the most part he's the only person on the screen. It's a quite wonderful opening hour that the film enjoys, and one that easily stands repeat viewings alone. The back half of I Am Legend is, almost inevitably, not quite the match of what's gone before, as the threats of the night don't, when you finally see them, live up to expectations. Nonetheless, for Smith's performance, and the sheer quality of the build up, I Am Legend can stand side-by-side with the last take on the story, the Charlton Heston-starrer The Last Man On Earth. Take either home, and you're in for a rollicking good night in front of the telly. --Jon Foster
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Not bad at all November 18, 2008
An interesting idea, quite well handled. Like other reviewers, I thought the first half was better than the second. There were a few inconsistencies in the plot, and some bits were a little silly, but overall it was both entertaining and enjoyable.
 Truly Legend November 10, 2008
Coming at this deceptively moving film expecting the usual cheeky charm and snappy one-liners from a Will Smith character, I will be apologising for ever more for anticipating anything less than the depth, humanity and underplayed grief that make his portrayal of Robert Neville, the last man in New York, if not the entire world, a real eye opener.
The look of the film is amazing, from the crumbling, grass lined streets of Manhattan, complete with abandoned jets that never made it past the moment of disaster (hinted at but never overblown in flashback), the script is tight and never over-sentimental and the suspense is an absolute killer...if you're not on the edge of your seat watching Neville chase his pet dog into a dark, abandoned warehouse that you just know is going to be crawling with evil, then you may have to question whether you are entirely human yourself!
Okay, so it's not without its flaws. The zombie/vampire/villains are the usual fast moving, blood lusting, head shaking, roaring CGI blobs with generic zombie/vampire/villain features (I couldn't help wondering, as I so often do in these situations, whether a few real humans with some ghoulish makeup may have been eerier) and after quite an intense build up I can see why some audiences might feel cheated by the unapologetically swift and convenient conclusion. Nevertheless, when the film ended I felt desolate: moved, astonished but desolate at the vision and image I was left with, and for a CGI monster movie to have that effect on a cynic like me is nothing short of amazing.
 Sadly Disappointing November 2, 2008
Perhaps it's unfair for me to review this - I have read the original book, and have always rated the 1971 version, "The Omega Man", one of the best films of its day. When I heard the story was getting another cinema outing, this time with the budget of a blockbuster, I was very excited.
I was dreadfully diappointed with the result. I always felt that "The Omega Man" was left a poorer film for having been cut in order to make it short enough to play as part of a "double feature" as was popular at the time. The footage was lost, so there's no chance of a restoration, and the story is doomed to remain a little disjointed with some key plot points never explained.
Imagine my surprise to find the same mistakes repeated with "I Am Legend". Once again the movie seems to have been cut to length at the expense of the story. A friend - who described it as "one of the worst movies I have ever seen" - said that she thought the film ended just as it got started, and I know exactly what she means.
Perhaps there will be a "director's cut" DVD to put things right. I hope so. In the meantime my advice is to buy "The Omega Man" instead.
 Brilliant! November 1, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
A dog and his sidekick, Will Smith, roam around a deserted New York shortly after George W Bush decides to bomb it for having too much graffiti.
Together they form a shrimping business called BubbaGump industries but then the rage virus is released by a monkey and then the dog has 101 pups leading to further hilarity.
An enjoyable family romp.
 Such a tasteless disappointment October 20, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
When it came out there was a great advertising and promotion campaign. Yet it did not fulfill its promises. One more survival film, you will say. Maybe but I am afraid it is more serious than that. One more epidemic film. Yes for sure, but yet it is deeper than that. One more zombie and living dead film then. Absolutely, but the disappointment comes from farther than that. The film uses three very common forms and it could have intertwined them and twisted them in a new creative way. But with one character and a dog, you do not go that far. In fact it is the whole argument of Stephen King's The Stand. The super flu, the dying of everyone, the survival of a few. But Stephen King remains human and the two antagonistic camps are human survivors and then they represent the two opposite impulses of the human species: to fight and kill to survive against others, and to organize collectively to survive with others. In this film the survivors are good humans and all the others are bad mutants. Badness in man is thus not human but antihuman. That is very naive indeed, especially when we understand the epidemic was caused by the irresponsible experiments of one doctor on thousands of people with genetically manipulated viruses. It is this vision of good humans attacked from outside by some who are no longer human at all that makes the film poor and even weak. Evil is not outside. Evil is inside. Anyone who says the reverse is just a blind man. Then the plot is no plot because we know what it is going to be. There is no surprise and no psychological death. And the dramatic events here and there are defused by too much disbelief to suspend. How did the woman arrive in Manhattan, how did she escape the house, how did she drive out of Manhattan, how did she know where to go? And many other questions like those. Then the legend becomes a fable and a weak one at that. Too bad because the theme could have been better and the author behind, Matheson, is supposed to be better than that.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
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