Too scary for me

Rating: Null/10 (29 December 2007)

There's one thing that must be perfectly clear: if you need more scares than this movie contains, it can't be had within the walls of a movie theater. This film takes a familiar zombie movie subject matter and rehashes it into something much more frightening. A virus of unimaginable potency turns virtually everyone in the world into a flesh-eating, inhuman, sickly, rabid animal. Psychological horror is the game here; Will Smith convinces you of his solitude and of his nightmarish everyday realities. Alone in a deserted New York City, Smith must survive in his barricaded apartment long enough to try to find the cure for the supervirus which has already taken away everything and everyone he loved. This movie proves that presentation is ten times more important than subject matter. Flashbacks to the virus outbreak give everything in the film a tragic undertone. As Smith loses his family and his sanity and eventually his life, you go with him every step of the way. Zombies have never ever been scarier, and nobody has ever taken you on a journey this frightening.