Awful Awful Awful

Rating: 1/10 (14 January 2008)

So what can be said about this. A film which has no character development, no plot and above all quite possibly one of the most rushed and poor endings I have ever seen. Will Smith is as wooden as ever in his same old role (Pursuit of Happiness excluded) as the action hero. Give him an array of guns and that I'm so hard stare and there you go. For me this just struck of I, Robot (similar title?) just with a slightly different theme, this time its mutated, infected vicious men/women instead of psychotic robots. Smith doesn't act well enough to fool the audience that the CGI monsters could in fact be real and as a result basically looks like him having a bit of a workout. The relationship developed with Anna is very rushed, they seem to be on screen as a partnership for all of 20-25 minutes but in that time strike up a dependency on each other. Just thinking back, the animals running round the streets of New York at the beginning why aren't the antelope/gazelle whatever they are meant to be infected as has occurred to the dogs - the same with the lions. The ending? I know it has to remain true to the book but it was so overly rushed - the cure suddenly came about and wow just enough time for Smith to make his heroic last stand - which he certainly could have avoided. All in all a massive disappointment.