The Quiet Earth meets 28 Days Later

Rating: 7/10 (23 January 2008)

Will Smith is the only American left alive in Manhattan. Traffic jams and Wall Street are a thing of the past. It wasn't even the terrorists, it was a genetically engineered virus that ran amok. What it does is kill all people, unless it turns them into super strength and super speed zombies.
The guy is also a doctor, trying to research a cure for the virus. It starts exactly like The Quiet Earth and at first I thought it was a remake. Then the zombies from 28 Days Later decide to mate with the ones in Resident Evil and ruin what could have been a beautiful ending to the human race. But then something horrible happens: the zombies kill Will Smith's dog! It all goes downhill from there and, unfortunately, the human race survives. But would you really want to survive a world without Will Smith?
Bottom line: great special effects, Will Smith plays great, but the story doesn't really say anything. And taking into consideration that a sequel is planned in 2010 and about three video games in between, it all seems more like a money franchise than an honest attempt to make a movie that does say anything. It was a pretty good SF-horror, without being too smart or too stupid.