Could have been a masterpiece.

Rating: Null/10 (21 December 2011)

This movie is a remake of the 1970's original 'The Omega Man' with Charles Heston, and I had pretty high expectations for this film, and for the first 50 or so minutes of the film my expectations were being exceeded. Although then things started to get a little haywire, but I'll get to that in a minute first I have to tell you about why the film was so good to start with. First of all I have to stress how well done the rundown and abandoned New York City was created using real and computerized images, also all the animals such as lions and deer look amazingly realistic. In case you don't already know, I Am Legend is about an infection that quickly spreads across the globe leaving Will Smith's character, Robert Neville, alone (apart from his dog Sam, who is great), his family dead and him trying to discover a cure to make everything better again (his character is a doctor). Will Smith is at his best in this film, showing well the effects of isolation. Although I think that the film should have done more back story on Robert and how the infection fist started, those flashbacks by Robert are very exciting.
The effect of not being able to see the infected at the start is well done, leaving you tense in some suspenseful scenes, though this is all ruined when the 'zombies' are revealed looking like their out of some sort of video game, and also when fellow survivors find Robert (Will's character), they couldn't possibly be more frustrating, the women actress is alright but the kid is unbearable. I won't give too much more away, but I will tell you that the ending is terrible, having some infected 'leader' banging his head on bullet-proof glass like an idiot. I Am Legend could have been so much more and it really is a disappointment.
Mainly because of its masterpiece start, I'm giving I Am Legend about 7/10.