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Reviews Counted:203
Fresh:139
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:26-12-2007
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
I love movies where survivors have to find supplies. You give me two hours of Will Smith alone gathering supplies, that's all I could ever hope for. I Am Legend gave me even more. It is the best survival movie ever made.
Before the diseased-yet-oddly superhuman villains start to appear en masse, I Am Legend works surprisingly well. Then they do.
Smith is given the opportunity to explore every emotion and he does them all admirably. I must also give credit to Sam the dog, Robert's only real companion. Not since Wilson the volleyball ... in "CastAway," has a non-speaking character meant so much to
As good as the action scenes are, the humanity in [Will] Smith's performance is most responsible for I Am Legend's success.
Solitary and suspenseful, it's the scary of which nightmares are made.
The last man on Earth screams there is no God and has a dog who will not obey his commands.
The ending feels like M. Night Shyamalan gone all wrong adapting Stephen King. Still Will Smith gives a solid performance and Sam is sure to become legend among Hollywood canines.
Will Smith carries the day... and the movie.
The incredible amount of buildup and excitement of the first half ends up driving us down the road to disappointment.
This new version of I am Legend completely perverts the meaning of the title, losing the clever, dark irony and turning it instead into something heroic rather than something tragic.
Fits comfortably among a spate of recent films -inclusive of dramas, thrillers, action pictures and anxiety-infused comedies -which all can be boiled down to: we are lost.
Each successive development in the increasingly ludicrous narrative saps a little more of the goodwill engendered by the early scenes.
For about three quarters of its running time, I was thinking this could be one of the very best movies of the year.
In the infantile prioritizing that occurs when Hollywood wants to be 'inspirational,' the hero's Everyman crisis of religious faith is supposed to be as important to audiences as his struggle to save humanity from extinction.
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 their slobbering and howling.
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.
The pulp ironies grow so crude and deafening that despite its scattered virtues, I Am Legend leaves you emotionally parched and aesthetically ticked-off.
I Am Legend is actually about the last man on earth played by one of the last real movie stars on earth.
The stunning set pieces (the production cleared and dressed the streets of New York for every outdoor scene) serve as the backdrop to Smith’s rending performance as a man struggling against guilt, hope, and God.
The movie works well while it's running, although it raises questions that later only mutate in our minds.
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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...
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