Will Smith and the dog save that movie from a complete flop

Rating: 6/10 (9 March 2008)

It so happened that we watched this movie a day after we watched "30 Days of Night" and we couldn't get over the feeling that the same vampires were "borrowed" from the other movie to this one... Even if in this movie the plot is a more intelligent one (thanks to the book?), and the pictures of empty New York are very impressive,-it felt hollow, it left us with the feeling of "been there before, seen it already". It is supposed to make you wary of the future and so on,but the script and the story itself did not work; and since our son (17)watched the movie with us, and he was not impressed either, so it doesn't seem to work for a yonger audience as well. The "anti-humans" look like a bad video game villains, (even in 30 days of night they were more realisticaly looking)and the explanation of the disease/virus was very poor or absent.(that goes beyond saying that the whole thing is ridiculous).
I gave it a 6 out of 10 since the movie is still worth watching: because of some of the effects, because of Will Smith (and the Dog), and the comic reliefs,- we like "Shreck" and Bob Marley too... as to the end of humanity? it will come, naturally, but in the meantime we should look for better movies...