Just not my kind of movie.

Rating: 5/10 (20 April 2008)

Don't get me wrong. I DID think this was a good movie. Good acting, good action, and good use of CGI. However, it's not a movie I'm actively hunting for in video stores.
In the movie, Will Smith stars as Robert Neville, a military scientist, and the last human in New York, and possibly the world. An epidemic has killed off most of humanity. The humans who haven't died have evolved into a race of bloodthirsty mutants that live in the dark. Neville has spent the past three years looking for a cure to the epidemic, but he feels it may be too late to save humanity.
On the plus side, Will Smith's acting in this movie was great. The mutants were done well and certainly scary. There were plenty of great action scenes. On the downside, however, I felt the movie was too grim. Although there was a definite plot to the story, it just seemed that nothing was working out for Neville. I thought it was a bit weird for Neville to treat mannequins like real people. It was a good idea in Cast Away, but here it didn't seem to work. Maybe I'm just over-analyzing, but that's how I feel about it.
I recommend this movie for any fans of sci-fi horror and/or Will Smith. If you're easily spooked, you may want to skip this one. But like I said, it just wasn't for me.
5/10