Beautiful film, but too anthropocentric

Rating: 8/10 (30 December 2007)

The film presents well, and Will Smith is superb. But I feel that the film's writers copped out to the human happy ending. In the original story, Neville was legend to the infected humans (a missing parallel to this movie's "dark seekers"). Neville was their bogeyman, since he had single-handedly killed thousands of them. Here, the dark seekers are nothing more than screaming CGI fiends. And though their intelligence and social structure are alluded to throughout the film, they are never developed as parts of the storyline. The complexity and irony of the original story are sadly missing.
The film was well-made and, as mentioned above, it's a joy to watch Will Smith grow into a dramatic actor of the first magnitude.