Am I the only one disappointed by this flick?

Rating: 5/10 (16 December 2007)

This movie is best described as Castaway meets 28 days later. I never expected nearly two hours of complete silence and half an hour at a time where virtually nothing goes on. Sure the graphics are great and this film's "vision" of post apocalyptic new york is eerie and foreboding, but that simply doesn't justify the apparent lack of entertainment value this film provides. Perhaps most jarring is the lack of development of secondary plot lines. Without giving anything away, all I can say is that a limited use of flashbacks doesn't help the reader get through the massive suspension of disbelief required to comprehend some of the latter events in the film. Will Smith provides an adequate job of moving this very slow trip along, but even his scifi prowess can't compensate for what really amounts to an event-less script-- this would be fine if we were meant to understand that the point of the movie was to focus on Robert Neville's agonizing loneliness and desperation, but the aforementioned half-hearted attempts at a back-story (and secondary plot elements) muddles this goal and creates an all around misguided flick. Worth seeing I guess but certainly not the blockbuster holiday event I was hoping for.