I Am Legendarily Bad

Rating: 2/10 (5 January 2008)

Sadly, this film suffers from the Narcissismus Directorus virus that has become so widely spread among film directors since 2009... wait, 2006... oh, whenever. And the big tragedy is, Emma Thomson thought that she had developed a _cure_ for all those directors that mangle good novels beyond all recognition and instead churn out tedious over-dramatised renditions peppered with lackluster comic relief scenes. Poor Emma. No wonder she didn't want to be credited for her role in this film.
Surely only someone who is infected would have the audacity to pretend to be making a movie of a novel, and then change the two essential premises: there is only one survivor ("hello? oh, pleased to meet you, glad you could drop in just as i was trying to kill myself, oh and you brought a kid too, great!"), and that the monsters are vampires ("vampires, zombies, the audience will never know the difference, and anyway, they're infected, but we're not ripping off 28 Days Later, honest").
Add to that some sub-standard CGI: yeah, we've seen weird creatures with over-sized mouths before, anyone remember "The Mummy"? And what was with those lions at the start? Did they have a special "fakeness" strand of the virus that, instead of making them allergic to sunlight, only made them allergic to looking like real lions?
All in all, a shocker of a movie.