A great story of isolation, until the silly monsters arrive.

Rating: 5/10 (29 December 2007)

For the first 45 minutes, the isolation Robert Neville experiences (and has experienced for years) weighs heavily on his character and on the viewer. This first act is a successful dramatic thriller that didn't need to rely on jumps and starts and empty camera tricks to make me squirm in my seat. It was instead the time and effort spent to build the character to a point where we feel for him, therefore the scary parts really were scary.
Then, it just devolved into really really really bad CGI monsters and video-game style film making that made me instantly bored. If only the film makers could have trusted their character (and the original story) and given the audience the thrilling post apocalyptic story with some heady substance that the first act promised.
Overall, I felt disappointed in everyone involved. (Especially the CGI animators. Dear, God... The monsters were so terrible.)