Direction killed this

Rating: 3/10 (7 April 2008)

Honestly, directors nowadays take too many freedoms when converting media. For all of you who thought this was good, pick up the book. If you haven't seen this, read the book.
The story of I Am Legend is not about a military scientist put into a situation where he is the only one to stop it. Robert Neville was an ordinary man. And his wife and child didn't die in a helicopter crash, his daughter's body was burned when she died (to prevent reanimation) and his wife became a vampire and he had to kill her.
The movie takes brings glamour to the personality of Robert Neville. In the movie, he's not crude, he doesn't smoke, he doesn't drink. In the book, aside from what he did during the day, he drank away the night.
The ending was the most dreadful part. In the end of the book... Robert Neville became legend, along with humanity. There weren't any survivors that he sacrificed his life for.
Through and through, the book is about the human emotion when staring at immediate mortality. The movie, on the other hand, is about a crazy guy, who just so happens to be outlived by some woman. Good job at killing the legend.