A poor adaptation of a brilliant novel

Rating: 5/10 (16 April 2008)

Quote: "I won't give away the ending, but think it was satisfying as far as it goes, but not nearly as appealing, from my angle, as the foregoing material. That brings up my one complaint: the title. By the end of the movie, we have some sense of the meaning of the title. Yet it still seems to me to feel cheesy and really unworthy of the movie." Sorry, but I think exactly the contrary. The movie is unworthy of its brilliant title, and totally unworthy of Matheson's book. Some of the scenes in deserted NY are truly impressive, but the animation effects are simply ridiculous, and the best actor remains Samantha (the dog). Will Smith seems, at times, plays another movie and sometimes overplays. And the "explanation" of the title, in the movie, is inept. The same title was PERFECT in the Matheson original.