I Am (Another) Legend?!?!

Rating: 1/10 (3 January 2008)

Have any of you people ever been to a restaurant where you ordered cheese cake for desert and got ice cream instead? Well this is what you'll get if you watch this movie if you have read the book. My advice is: Don't watch it!
For those of you who haven't- go for it! You might even like it. Having spent so much money on bloated propaganda and adverts makes it very appetising to watch. Even I fell for it and I am ashamed to admit it. If a friend tells you that the book is great don't go to the cinema with expectations to "see" the book: this is not the type of Harry Potter film. This is some other book. In fact the film has been misnamed. It should have been called "The Legendary Zombie Killer" or something within those lines. Sure enough it has a few things "stolen" from the book but it has nothing to do with it. The entire point of the book has been changed. Here are some highlighters for you:
1. Robert Neville is really the last survivor of the human race. The rest are Vampires- not Zombies of a mutated cancer curing virus.
2. He does not have a dog. He finds one and it dies in his arms within a week thus deepening his agony and desperation.
3. He does not meet another immune human. He is tricked by a Vampire so he can be captured by the emerging Vampire Civilization.
4. The human race is no more. He dies as a "Human Dracula" Legend to the new Vampire race that now populates the world and he will forever plague their dreams (like Dracula plagues ours). He dies with this realisation in mind and that is why he says: I am legend.
Having said all that, the movie is quite ordinary: Just some guy killing zombies. Cool effects (sort of) and nice action but that is all.
Will Smith also gets a huge chunk off his impressive reputation. For a demanding role like this one he plays good but not good enough. He is just not the actor that the viewers can accept as gone crazy and does not live up at all to Robert Neville's personage.(Bruce Willis might have been the better choice) The propaganda and "official" critiques makes me ask questions to which I will probably never get answers. Why would I Am Legend get such high rankings and Catwoman received seven Golden Raspberry nominations in 2005? When you think about it both films are too far off the original script. At least Halle Berry accepted the award for Worst Actress personally, apologising for the film. Let's see if Will Smith will have the courage to do the same. Let's all hope so for his sake. After all this was the worst film for 2007