Just don't expect Shakespeare people..

Rating: 7/10 (22 December 2007)

The 7 I'm giving to Will Smith's latest entry should be regarded a relative voting considering this genre of films. Standing on its own the film just lacks too many ingredients for such a high voting.
Will Smith gives another Will Smith performance in a movie which's theme has been done to death so many times that even the undead would have a field-day with it. Yet when one would simply switch of the mind, maybe drink a few beers prior to watching it, one could have a good time. I know I did.
'Legend' is more or less one big string of clichÃ©s neatly tied up by very passable CGI. The story has so much in common with films like 'War of the Worlds' and '28 Days Later', to name but a few, that it almost becomes a spoof.
Still I regard it a very decent what-you-see-is-what-you-get sort of film which at least didn't suffer from cringeworthy dialog like in 'Transformers', a pompous tone like in 'Children of Men', sheer boredom like in '28 days Later' or horribly annoying characters like in 'War of the Worlds'.
7/10