Amazing Film With Great Story

Rating: 9/10 (15 December 2007)

This movie has an amazing view on how the world is post-apocalypse. The details they put into this movie are incredible. The whole time i was on the edge of my seat. It was exciting, sad, creepy, eerie and epic all at the same time. The storyline is also great. The way the characters are portrayed and the way they act make you feel like you are in the movie. The scenes in the Infected "hive" made me jump out of my seat. Robert Neville seems like the perfect "last man on earth" because he is crafty and witty at the same time. The way he creates his own little world at the movie store with mannequins show what 3 years alone does to someone. The flashbacks in the movie let the audience calm down a bit and let you know how the characters got where they are and how the infection happened.
The infection starts when a so-called cancer cure goes wrong and kills 90% of the world. The other 10% were immune to the virus. They all died except 12 million who became infected and lived in the dark waiting for a kill. Neville is left alone with his dog Samantha or Sam for short. I thought that the deaths of the characters fit into the plot almost perfectly. For example, when Samantha is attacked by infected dogs and infected, Robert has to kill her himself by strangling her giving a sad, touching scene which captivated audiences. What got me aggravated though was how he fell into a random trap and we never find out how Fred got there or who made the trap. I feel this was just an easy way to kill off a character and get audiences to get angered or sad. Also, the way Neville's family dies is that a rescue copter gets pulled down by desperate New Yorkers and crashes into the private copter for Neville's family. It was sad and upsetting, but let us know that Neville's family died without the infection. Finally, in the end when Neville sacrifices himself for Anna and Ethan(who doesn't say a thing the whole movie) to keep the cure safe it was a great EXPLOSIVE ending to an actiony, sad, epic and overall awesome movie. it was a great film and I highly recommend it to anyone over 13 years of age.