Promising start turns out to be vague religious nonsense

Rating: 3/10 (2 July 2011)

*** SPOILERS WARNING ***
Okay this is my first review here, so bear with me.
I'll start with saying that i think Will Smith did a great job. Don't listen to people comparing him to Tom Hanks in Castaway, Tom Hanks doesn't hold a candle to Will Smith's performance in this film. He is gradually losing his mind, one twist at a time, and he portrays this in a way that makes it realistic and dramatic at the same time.
Secondly it looks good. Again I don't agree with some of the other critics here, saying the creatures were outdated cgi. Granted they were not realistic, but to me they fitted in somehow. And the scenery is very nicely done.
What I don't get about this film however, is how it's brilliant for 60 odd minutes but then when he meets the other survivors it turns into a weird combination of bad SF/horror and religious twaddle.
Now seriously, where did that come from? It could just be because they couldn't think of a decent way of saving them and because they wanted a happy end they had to come up with a vague religious side story, so they don't have to explain how they end up in Vermont. That would be quite bad, but the other option is even worse : they did intend this ending, and wrote it to tell us that those nasty scientists who are trying to cure diseases are evil, and that we all should just stick to trusting in god. Yeah...right.
This film could have had a great ending if they had been creative. He does find a cure and starts using it to revive the city, ending with the first rays of hope for the first few newly cured people, maybe him returning to the video store and finding a real girl there, voilÃ . Or he doesn't find a cure, gets crazier and crazier and then infected and dies at the end, not having achieved any of his goals, which would have been a really great scary ending. The options were literally limitless.
Not trying to offend, but people who say the ending of this film is really deep, which i did read in some other reviews here and elsewhere, are not making very much sense to me. It's not. It's blandly religious at best. Sure, this film has some nice ideas and good acting from will smith, but that's it. Rational people, beware of this film, enjoy it for an hour and then just turn the damn thing off.