Just Bad

Rating: 3/10 (14 December 2007)

Despite its considerable budget, I am Legend is at least, a bad movie. Not taking into account that the disease-apocalypse-mutant thing is as played out as any premise in recent film history, the array of contrived heroics and plot devices far outnumber those few moments of interesting story play. The interesting psychological investigation into a supposed last man on earth is constantly steered off course by forced emotionless scenes and an almost-Kevin-Costner-level martyrdom pumps like cholesterol through this waste-of-money's awful, awful veins. Redundant, uninspired, and contrived. 28 Days Later is itself, a far from perfect movie, but light years beyond this secondhand romantic shlock.