The one man who is immune turns out to be a doctor

Rating: 3/10 (27 September 2010)

who is trying to find a cure...what are the odds? Let's examine the other head-scratchers: 1) Mother and son, as clean and well-scrubbed as models in a Macy's advertisement, appear out of nowhere, in the dead of night, to rescue the protagonist in the middle of a nighttime post-apocalyptic war zone that basically belongs to the zombies who have ten times the energy of the acrobats in a Cirque du Soleil show.
2) re: #1 above, Macy's model mother and her Macy's model son manage to rescue the unconscious protagonist and take him to his house, when they would have no idea where he lives.
3) Bacon bacon where's the bacon (I was saving that bacon) 4) Creepy mannequin social networking 5) Hunting deer from your car, we had a word for people like that where I grew up and it's not polite to repeat it here. Seriously, that's not how you hunt deer...who wrote the script? Everyone knows you stalk them silently while they're grazing, you don't chase after them while they're running, that's just lame.
6) Dr. Neville has the ability, in his rinky-dink basement lab, to reverse a condition that has probably taken a huge corporation years, millions of dollars, and hundreds of research scientists to unleash upon the world. Oh, and he still has plenty of time left over to hit golf balls, browse for dvds, and putter around NYC, because somehow devoting every minute you have to curing a disease that has rendered you the last man on earth takes a back seat to flirting with a mannequin with a bob haircut.
7) Worst CGI lions in film history, even worse than the CGI wolves in The Day After Tomorrow. They look like cartoon lions. I half expected to see Hanna Barbera credited for the lions in the credits.
8) What have the zombies lived on for the last three years? Nothing on earth can survive that long without eating.
9) Dr. Neville didn't see the cable attached to Fred? 10) I heard that Tom Cruise was considered for the role; in terms of acting ability, is Smith simply not Cruise's tepid contemporary? They could be used interchangeably in any role. Try to convince me that if they had used Smith for the War of the Worlds, complete with Smithlet (Willow), that most audience members could not have told the difference.
11) Lest you think I'm being hard on his acting ability, would an accomplished actor desperately resort to shirtless chin-ups and that exaggerated swagger in his walk in order to add depth to his character? As "the last man on earth", he isn't convincing; he should be ten times stranger than what we're seeing on the screen. Quoting Shrek doesn't make him strange, but if the Macy's model kid put in several dvds one after the other and he could quote them all, that would have made him strange, and we would have had a sense of what he was going through.
12) He hasn't seen a single living person in three years, and yet reacts to blithely to the Macy's model people, who pop up out of nowhere. Would he not be in shock from seeing them? Boy am I glad to see you, where did you come from, how did you get here, etc. The woman and her kid are similarly lukewarm. This just isn't how people would act under these circumstances, they look bored with each other.