last man on earth meets zombies

Rating: 7/10 (22 June 2008)

'I Am Legend' is a combination of two genres - one of the apocalyptic post-atomic/post-lethal virus stories with the sub-genre last_man_on_earth and the zombies movie. Here Will Smith is apparently the last survivor in a Manhattan that had been again Ground Zero for a different type of catastrophe. He is the only healthy survivor I should say as the rest are men and dogs made to look like flesh-hungry hordes of zombies by the epidemics that destroyed civilization permanently menace him and his faithful dog. It is actually the first part of the film that I liked most, the Manhattan_after_civilization looks well and scary, and Will Smith is doing a fine job, we always knew that he can carry a full film by himself. Conveniently he is also the biologist who can cure what remains of mankind, and when it proves as expected that he is not that alone in sanity on Earth the film slides to a more conventional and moralistic path. Not enough to spoil it completely but bad enough to lower my grade for this film from 'very good' to 'average plus'.