One of the few movies I have enjoyed all year!

Rating: 8/10 (15 December 2007)

As someone who has watched a few stinkers this year I was pleasantly surprised that this move followed through on everything it has promised me from the trailer.
The story and premise were great, the acting from Will Smith was top notch and it didn't drag on for an extra half an hour past it's sell by date like every movie has this year.
I would have preferred to see a little more of the time in between the quarantine of the island and where we picked up with Smith's character - but in terms of story telling I thought it was very well done.
As a very critical person, imagine my wonder when everybody leaving the cinema seemed disappointed with the movie and many of the reviews I have read since have hated it! I can only surmise that it was the non-Hollywood/American ending where Will Smith doesn't kill every bad guy and save the world singlehandedly that lead to this feeling.
I thought the CGI (even the zombies) was out of this world. It has been the only movie this year to catch me, entertain me, tell a story - and the only movie to actually scare me since Sixth Sense.
Go watch it with an open mind, forget the expectation of a high budget movie with a big star and be entertained.