Awful CGI

Rating: 5/10 (21 January 2008)

A great film is let down by the worst CGI since The Mummy Returns. The infected are so completely unconvincing that they let the whole film down. Quite why the studio didn't simply use people in prosthetics and make-up baffles me. The studio could have saved themselves tons of cash and got a better film if they just hired extras and dressed them up. The scenes of an apocalyptic New York are breathtaking and while Will Smiths performance is one of his best, it's let down by the fact that his greatest threat, is poorly conceived. The CGI must have been made by a couple of kids in their bedroom on a laptop PC, and the studio responsible for the effects should be shut down. This film is also very exhausting. Its mostly Will on his own for the first half of the movie with occasional flashbacks on his life before the outbreak. It is almost completely devoid of humour and by the end, you feel drained. A half decent film with laughable CGI. Worth seeing, but not buying. No re-watchable factor here.