Massacre of the Book

Rating: 3/10 (29 June 2010)

First, I'd like to say that if this movie was titled something else, and the story wasn't supposedly borrowed from Richard Matheson's book, this review might be different. However, it *is* titled I am Legend, and it is SUPPOSEDLY an adaptation of said novel, and is a terrible one at that. The story after his solitude diverges completely from the book, so if you are looking for a great post-apocalyptic story of a man's struggle for his own humanity, look elsewhere. Or, even better, buy the book. Or the audio-book. But DO NOT watch this movie. It loses the entire meaning of the book and should not even have the same title, considering the last line of the novel lends the book (and, ironically, the movie) it's title. I give this movie a 3 for the sheer fact that Will Smith's acting was great, and, as I said before, it would be somewhere in the "5" range if it was not a massacre of the story so artfully constructed by Matheson.