An unforgettable film, but why is it flawed the way it is?

Rating: 7/10 (6 February 2015)

I really liked I am Legend. I'm Legend is a film which has plenty of exhilarating atmosphere and a striking direction. Not only that but I was also highly and particularly glad (and also proud) to have experienced in a few scenes of the film a strong sense of fear, anxiety and hopelessness and anxiety, hopelessness and fear combined into a single feel and which made me feel 100% as if I was really inside the movie with Will Smith's character! Oh man that was a truly funny and unfamiliar kind of feel to me and I don't recall having ever lived that kind of feel ever before with movies! This is something I probably never get from my experience with movies and all of this is why the experience made me feel highly and particularly glad (and also proud) of the experience! The film also benefits from its post-apocalyptic New York town which looks quite effective, believable, convincing and very much probable to what it could look like in the real world when abandoned for a few years plus Smith's character's dog which added a strong and subtle sense of humanity to the film. However, despite these strong points I am Legend is plagued by a few bizarre flaws which I'm going to start talking about right now. The first one is its CGI effects! Now, I wonder what on earth the people that made these effects had in mind while putting these effects into place (or else what simply and accidentally went wrong with the CGI effects processing) because they were so, so bad looking and absolutely unconvincing and they harmed the movie a bit. They didn't give a strong sense of menace as I wished they would and it's a real disappointment. I'm afraid I will have to add them on my list of the Top 10 Worst CGI Effects of all Time! The other flaw is the scene where Robert Neville drives his car like a mad man in order to smash the Infected. Again what on earth went in the director's head when he was making that scene because that scene completely lacked any grip to it! That scene was completely stripped of any breathlessness and originality (also I'm sure we've all seen a scene like this one before and therefore we don't need and want to see the same thing again) and it also felt routine action scene rather than a solid action scene! I expected to have this and then at the end of that scene be impressed to the point of feeling like saying WAOUW and/or WOUF! But instead it felt like the scene was there just for the sake of having action, even if that means sacrificing its thrills. That was such a pity all of this and it ruined the movie's potential regarding all of the other good stuff I've mentioned which the movie already managed to offer us! Furthermore it is a bit unclear as to why Will Smith's character decided to stay outside at night to kill off the Infected in the first place when he always stays at his barricaded house at night like he's been doing for the first three years when he was alone! Was he trying to seek vengeance for his dog's death? Or is it something else? And if it is what is it? Still despite somewhat having these flaws I'm Legend is a movie that has its share of thrills and what I said at the very beginning of my review was enough to keep me fully entertained and satisfied nevertheless! I also wanted to say to you in my review that after watching this movie I dreamed and still do of being the sole survivor or just only living human being in my town, just to get this irresistible feeling of freedom of doing whatever I want to do around the huge town I'm in and go wherever I want to go and as far as it pleases me! I dream so badly of having this and I'm not kidding and it isn't out of nastiness in case you thought the other way around! As you can see, thanks to I am Legend it not only gave me thrills but also gave me something to imagine for myself in the reality world and I love imagining myself things in the real world in general. My rating for I am Legend is 7.6/10