Best Adaptation Yet

Rating: 9/10 (11 February 2008)

This was spectacular. It's based on Richard Matheson's novel (Matheson wrote many classic "Twilight Zone" episodes in the early 1960s). It's a novel which has been adapted in film before, most famously with THE OMEGA MAN starring Charlton Heston as the last man alive. Will Smith is in this new one, as the last man alive, after a huge viral pandemic breaks out everywhere on the planet, arising from what was supposed to be a new state-of-the-art cancer vaccine. Will Smith has been Oscar nominated twice; he's a much better actor than Heston. Heston has more screen presence, has a louder voice, and such. But, as evidenced here and in other films such as "THE PURSUIT OF HAPPY...", Smith is subdued and articulate.
A very high recommendation here.