I wish I had not seen it.

Rating: 4/10 (11 January 2008)

I wanted to like the movie, but left wishing I had not seen it. Big budget special effects and good acting qualify this as a well-made movie, especially in the first half, but then Will Smith's character fails to be a hero or a legend. He dies and his dog, Samantha, dies in a sequence that appears forced into the movie and is not helpful to the progression of the story. The second half of the story does not follow the setup of the first half. Ending the movie with a scene of him, his dog, and other survivors walking into the sanctuary while holding a cure to the virus would have given this disaster movie a happy, inspiring conclusion worthy of the title.