All Special Effects and a Contrived Plot

Rating: 5/10 (9 January 2017)

This film is well set up with an end of the world kind of condition that occurs when medical scientists really blow it. All that's left, it seems, is Will Smith. He manages to stay alive, fending off wild animals and zombie-like mutants. He studies what's going on. Fortunately for him, he is able to observe one big thing which leads to the conclusion. The thing that annoys me is the deus ex machina conclusion based on Smith's supposed scientific knowledge. Anyway, it is a really forgettable movie. I've never been much of a Will Smith fan. He brings a smugness to his roles that gets tiresome at times. There are so many of these types of movies that are so much better in the science fiction arena. Even the old Vincent Price, "The Last Man on Earth" is a better film, bleak and depressing as it is.