Definitely not a legend...

Rating: 6/10 (18 December 2007)

I'm not a big fan of Will Smith, but i know if anyone can carry a whole movie on his shoulders its him. That being said i had still had my doubts about this movie because i heard very contrasting reviews about this movie, and i wasn't sure of what to expect from this movie.
As expected this movie is all about Will Smith, hes nothing less than superman, immune to the disease, built like tank, fit as hell, and a brilliant scientist to boot,not to mention hunts for his own food in the best cars.
This movie basically has it all, loads of drama, special effects, action, a bunch of tense scenes, a decent story albeit very rehashed story, and one huge star, yet you get the feeling that lots is missing.
No matter how big a star will smith is, seeing him and and his dog for hours at length is not exactly pleasurable.
The drama would have been decent in small doses but here it gets overbearing, especially the scenes towards the end concerning god among others. Some of the dialogues seem straight out of a B-movie.
The special effects are actually ordinary even pedestrian, scenes that come to mind are the lions and antelopes, and the often sub-standard rendering of the creatures and New York, im wondering how much will smith was paid that the film makers couldn't afford special effects that were at least 5 -7 years old.
The cinematography was good,but the shoddy special effects made a big dent on them, the camera was the grainy type that is very popular nowadays, but you have to see movies like 28 days later, to see what what real desolation is about and how a post-apocalyptic future looks like.
The tense were good, but far to predictable, the fact that there's one protagonist in the entire film had almost everything to do with, predictability was a major issue with this film right till the end.
The story is as old as the mountains and there was nothing new here, each and every aspect of this movie has been suggested before either in films or in print, ORIGINALITY IF NOT SOMETHING THIS FILM SCORES ANY POINTS ON.
The end to is very abrupt,fifteen minutes more would have been much appreciated, the end itself left a lot to be desired, some smart editing would have cut lots of the beginning and added more to the end, if there were issues with the length.
Despite all this you cant take away that many points from this film mainly because- 1)Will Smith has done a fine job regardless of just being there too much.
2)Many scenes although predictable do send your pulse racing.
3)Some of the drama is actually quite endearing although again predictable.
4)The action is decent and realistic, he may be like superman but he fights like a real person.
5)The movie is short and sweet and although the end feels very abrupt you appreciate the small feature length.
In all a decent movie thats far from being a legend for a variety of reasons.
Watch with low expectations and you will come out satisfied, definitely doesn't have the blockbuster potential of say a transformers or Die Hard 4.0, please don't give into the Will Smith hype and the inflated ratings.
-s ending, SPECIAL EFFECTS, ORIGINALITY, PREDICTABILITY.
+/-s too much Will Smith??.
+s lots of tense scenes, fine acting, decent cinematography, small length.
Total 6/10 (met my confused but definitely lower expectations but didn't factor it in because of the already inflated ratings).