Deep Movie

Rating: 9/10 (2 May 2008)

Society often enjoys giving their respect and praise to sports stars, musicians, actors and other people that don't really change the world. Sure they entertain us, some even start up charities, but even the Bono's of the world don't do much beyond making noise.
People that do make a real difference like politicians and scientists don't really get much of the "hero" limelight. The're not portrayed as heroes by pop culture even though a good one can save and improve millions (and billions) of lives.
I was really happy to see this movie putting a scientist in the hero position, not the nerd who makes the heroes car faster or "hacks into the mainframe" on his behalf.
Will Smith (in his best acting to date) played a scientist working to fix a screw-up caused by science in the first place (Think Einstein and the atomic bomb). We watch his tireless struggle and slow loss of sanity when science doesn't come through for him and, he is rescued from the brink by a woman of faith who has been sent on a mission by god.
Yeah he could of taken the horror approach and locked himself in a mall and either died off or tried to escape to a island. He could of taken the action approach and decided to kill all the zombies seeing as his family is already dead. Instead he decided to make it right by working really hard with what he knows. A real, realistic hero.
When I got home I was disappointed to read reviews and see people didn't like the movie because the CGI doesn't look good. Yeah it's not that good, and would of been better with the crew from a modern George Romero doing makeup on real people. But get over it! Any movie that is made now will look like crap when you see it in 30 years time. CGI doesn't make a legendary film. It always comes back to the quality of and plot, which this movie has plenty of.
CGI is worth knocking down 1 star in a movie to me, when you're giving it 3/10 because of CGI you need to ask yourself "Do I enjoy movies or do I just enjoy explosions?"