it's like quantum stuff - it's there, but it's not.

Rating: 6/10 (25 December 2007)

I give all but the last 10 minutes a solid 7. I'd give it a 5,5 if it wasn't for a real lack of anything good coming out these days. IAL's just not *that* special.
Last ten minutes are bad, as much as is a *way* too short running time of the whole movie. Maybe we should wait for a DC, without producers cutting corners all over the place. The ending is so wrong because it hastens things beyond acceptable. Watching IAL is a slow and intimate process. Yet the last minutes break the whole charm. Not because of *how* things came up to be, but because how ridiculously *fast* they did.
And then there goes the sub-par CGI. Why would they involve a CGI close-up human like monsters in such a movie is beyond me. "28 days/months later's" human actors were thousand times more scary and authentic. As of now, no computer generated image beats an acted flesh-craving look.
I give a big nine to W.Smith though. He does a *splendid* delivery. His day-to-day life in a deserted NYC are peak points that along with some flash backs are the best you can get from this production. It really breaks my heart to see this movie end at least 30 minutes early.