A waste of a perfectly good vampire story...

Rating: 2/10 (22 December 2007)

When I saw this, I thought that it was just a gutless Hollywood version of 28 days. I had no idea that this was based on a classic SF novella and a remake of the Omega Man. The story had changed so much that it was unrecognizable and the point of the original (and there was a point in the source) completely reversed.
Although this has always happened in Hollywood, it has become even worse with recent adaptations, being not only dumbed down, which is unavoidable, but made to appeal to the Shawshank/Green Mile contingent. I can stomach this with the Nanny Diaries, Stardust, Yuma, but can you please leave the vampire and zombie movies to those of us who don't have to think about the children and are going to wind up in the other place anyway.
I guess I should be thankful that the zombies and Will Smith didn't share an ET moment at the end...
And whatever the plot, at least fix the gaping plot holes and make the character actions believable, or make the CGI and pacing good enough that we don't care. This was such a waste of time and effort, which won't please the audience it's targeting and bores and alienates the audience that normally likes this type of film - or what this type of film should be...