A little disappointed

Rating: 6/10 (6 September 2008)

I did not know what to expect of this movie. All I knew about it was from the trailers, and I seem to recall some friends of mine saying it was really good. I sat a little disappointed at the end.
The first half of the movie was great. Just the thought of a post-apocalyptic city gives me the creeps. You see how Will Smith holds up being all alone, and when he enters the darkness for the first time it really frightens you (atleast me). When he was hanging upside down, I was like "get up and away from there already!". It was kinda.. thrilling. The dog dying was unnecessary, but expected.
After the dog-fight scene the movie takes a dive and becomes just another CGI-action film, or whatever you want to call it. The thing that annoyed me the most though is when Will met Anna. Seriously, is that how'd you react after meeting a person for the first time after 3 years? I believe a person would react somewhere along these three extremes: Get a major breakdown, being overjoyed with happiness or think you were hallucinating. Also, the stuff about "God told me" was really annoying and the ending was bad overall. If I could re watch the movie, I'd stop watching it when Will was holding the infected dog on his lapse, singing. That would be the best ending you could get in this movie.
Also, I'd like to mention that I Am Legend should have contained more back story. It would make the movie more interesting. While not being an expert, I also found the animation not very convincing.
Overall it was an entertaining movie with a lot of potential, but it could have been, and should have been so much better.