Worth seeing

Rating: 8/10 (14 December 2007)

I liked this film quite a bit. But I have to say that for basic eeriness, the Vincent Price version The Last Man on Earth is the best of the three films. But I Am Legend beats out The Omega Man in my books. I agree that the sets were amazing, especially the emptiness of NYC (almost unbelievable!). Smith did a great job with the script, although I don't think he reflected the dementia that Vincent Price showed, but then Charlton Heston couldn't either (and few actors are capable of that). He did have a range of emotion, though, and that helped considerably in conveying the desolation of the last survivor. What I didn't much care for was the ending. The book and previous films had bleak endings and this one didn't get there. But then it's a new millennium and a new type of ending is fashionable for this era, or so it seems. The inclusion of the dog was nice, and the infected dogs.