From Great to Decent

Rating: 7/10 (27 December 2007)

After hearing many of my friends and co-workers that "I Am Legend" was a great movie, I finally decided to go see it myself. Sadly, I found it a decent movie rental than a movie going experience.
The movie opens up with a T.V. interview where a person had discovered the cure for cancer by reversing the effects of a virus. Then quickly changes to three years later in New York City where it is now a ghost town (Stating that the cure backfired and killed most of the people, if not all, in the world.) Then it is revealed that only one person survived, Will Smith's character, and his German Shepard who struggled to survive, especially in the night where the infected people with enhanced strength and speed kill any living being in sight, while trying to find the cure for the virus.
It was great to see Will Smith alone with the dog for two-thirds of film where we see how he survives and stays sane by talking to his dog and mannequins, many have stated that he is clearly crazy doing that(Talking to the mannequins) but they're his imaginary friends, like you call kids crazy for having one. But then it became bad when a woman and her child appear as survivors who came to answer Smith's call of survivors through the radio. It just didn't have the excitement of seeing Smith trying to survive the apocalypse.
In my opinion, the last third of the film should of been about Smith trying to survive the entire night outside the safety of his house built in fortress after he was trap by the Alpha Male infected(The scene where Smith and the Dog are confronted by the Alpha Male's dogs since it was near night.).
Also, it became a cheap sci-fi the second the infected where known as the Darkseekers or something similar I can't quite remember.