Severely lacking

Rating: 5/10 (5 January 2008)

This movie appears to be a mish mash of several other movies, introducing nothing new at all. The plot is your bog standard 28 days / resident evil zombie plot with just enough changed to avoid litigation. The angle of the plot is completely on will smiths character with everyone and thing else just being an add on. Its clearly packaged as a surreal action film but is screenplayed as the emotional journey of the protagonist. After 30 minutes you clock that you've been conned, but the first 30 minutes are quite good. The middle 30 minutes are completely spoilt as you've been hyped for action that plays as sloppy emotion and the ending is pure emotion. Your left with nothing to do but critique the CGI and try to explain the enormous continuation and plot holes.
If you just want to scare the crap out of yourself for 90 minutes - go for it but you'll end up unsatisfied no matter what you're looking for from this film.