I saw I Am Legend yesterday. They got the name of the movie right...and the name of Robert Neville. That is about it. They tried to modernize the book and failed miserably at even capturing what the book is actually about. Instead they just tried to make a horrible CGI horror film with no meaning. A review I read says it all. They have found a cure to cancer with the side effects of death, vampirism and being turned into a horrible CGI monster.
Cure for cancer, not sure who came up with that brilliant idea to try and give the virus an origin.
Will Smith did a good job acting, I'll give him that. But that does not make up for the actual butchery of everything else. It was incredible. A lot of it didn't even make sense. I figured they would change the ending because Hollywood would not improve the ending of the book but it was worse than I thought. Then there were all the scenes that gave you hope that they would save the movie yet but turned out to just be making it worse.
That being said - if you have not read the book then the movie isn't that bad up until 3/4 of the way through and you might actual like it.
To Sum it up: Go watch Enchanted instead. I saw it a couple weeks ago: it's brilliant.






