I am a waste of time

Rating: 4/10 (29 December 2007)

I was really looking forward to this one, the review in the newspaper was good, and the trailer was promising. Did the hype do it justice? I don't think it did. I must say that the movie started out quite nice. What would you do if you were alone on this planet? Probably drive every car you liked, fast, driving 100 in the city, whoa. So this part of the movie was OK. Then the next scene. He was hunting deer in New York, from his car doing 100. But why? Well, he was hunting for food! Excuse me? Hunting for food? Never heard of canned food? Maybe he wanted some fresh meat? Then not why pick them off from a window, much much easier... Anyway, so far so good. The reason why he would be the only one left in the world was understandable too. A mutation in a virus who supposed to help human kind by curing cancer, killed everybody. Nice touch. If they would have used flashbacks on how things evolved from the start of the cure to the discovering of the mutation and see the effect of it on humans, would have made this a great movie. Instead we see Dr. Neville fight Zombies and trying to find a cure for the virus. Besides that, there were some strange things what confused me... 1. Dr. Neville opens the door of a movie rental shop with keys and brings back a rented movie, and looks for another... Why is the store locked, and why does he brings back rentals? 2. He is only alone for 3 years, and is already getting mad. 3. Most of the rooms he enters have no dust at all, or spiderwebs, most of them are tidy. How come? 4. There are no bodies at all, are they all eaten by the zombies? 5. At a certain point they are no longer stupid zombies, and they even have a leader who hates Dr. Neville. They are even no longer afraid of the light. It is never explained how that is possible. 6. When he is trying to kill off the zombies, why is he not using a tank? 7. He is hoping to find out if he is not the only one left on this planet by broadcasting messages every day. And when a lady with her kid shows up, he is not happy or in ecstasy, no he criticizes her for using his bacon. 8. How did that lady get in the city? How did she get out? And if she managed to do it, why didn't Dr. Neville did earlier? 9. Why is this movie so hyped? 10. Why did I watch this movie 'till the end? Do yourself a favor, and wait until you can rent the DVD. Then watch the first 20 minutes, and skip the rest. The only reason I gave this movie 4 points was because Will Smith was in it.