but not an urban legend, says I

Rating: 7/10 (31 March 2008)

Many's the day that we've heard of cures, medicines, drugs, etc., having unintended consequences. So there had to be a movie like "I Am Legend". It portrays a future in which a miracle cure wipes out cancer but turns the cured people rabid. New York City is now empty except for Robert Neville (Will Smith). He and his dog Sam spend the days driving throughout the city looking for things to shoot. But every night, the mutated people come out of hiding...and you don't want to get bitten by them.
This is a remake of the Charlton Heston movie "The Omega Man", which was itself a remake of the Vincent Price movie "The Last Man on Earth" (what do you call a remake of a remake?). As I haven't seen the other two, I can only focus on this one. Much of the movie was certainly intense enough, and the issue of a miracle cure having a disastrous outcome is a relevant one. But truth be told, the movie mostly seems a little sensationalistic. While I mostly think that Will Smith has so far been a good actor, it seems as if the movie is just trying to show him off.
But I do recommend the movie. It really does create a sense of intensity like I rarely see in movies, and it does seem as if the overall plot could really happen. Worth seeing.