Enjoyable movie with substance

Rating: 9/10 (3 March 2008)

It is a well thought out movie, with some good special and visual effects, but the significance of it rests with the fact that it makes you think about the underling story that is being told, which is very clear and tells us all that with every new discovery comes a danger and with more and more advancing technology the human race is more than ever before coming closer to its own demise if it's not prudent and careful in managing its lust for discovery; just as the story told in I am Legend (although some factors are clearly fictional) it begs the question would the same mistake be repeated if someone in the future came up with a cure for cancer or aids and tried to implement it before considering all the possible consequences. Just as before in the human history in the past few years we have come increasingly closer to world pandemics with viruses such as sars and more recently the H5N1, if it became airborne and capable of infecting humans we would be on the brink of a major disaster. At the moment disaster movies such as I am Legend, I robot, The day after Tomorrow and others might seem completely fictional but the question remains; will we one day look back and realise that they were not so fictional after all?