Very entertaining, but not more than that

Rating: 8/10 (26 December 2007)

I found this a really entertaining movie, very much in the style of end-of-the-world movies such as "Independence Day", "The Day After Tomorrow" or "War of the Worlds" (movies that I like very much). However, having read some reviews in the Dutch papers, I expected a thought-provoking "Hollywood meets art-house" movie, but these expectations were certainly not fulfilled. The movie's ending is also rather conventional. I have neither read Matheson's novel nor seen the two previous movies based on this book, it may well be that these were less mainstream in nature. Still, "I Am Legend" is a highly enjoyable Christmas blockbuster, with excellent direction and good acting by Smith (without the obligatory funny lines that characterize most of his other movies).