Will Smith end-of-world vehicle falls just short...

Rating: 5/10 (21 July 2009)

1st watched 7/3/2009, 5 out of 10 (Dir – Francis Lawrence): Will Smith end-of-world vehicle falls just short of being a completely satisfying movie experience. It's definitely an interesting concept with Will's character being the possibly last survivor of a virus brought about by a cancer cure that backfires. He is also a doctor who is still daily working on a cure. The problem with the movie is that it's an obvious attempt to put his face in front of us for 2 whole hours and I get the feeling he wants us to like it. He's a good actor but he can't carry something like this that depends on him solely. There are also human-feeding, night-dwelling, very fast living dead types that come out and he has to protect himself against them. He has learned this and he and his dog have a pretty regimented daily routine. In the daytime they do their shopping(aka. Looting) and search for others who might still be alive and then they board themselves up in the evening. Later he comes across a couple of others who save him and he's egotistical enough to not believe there are others in another location alive. The ending was interesting but still not enough to completely recommend the whole movie.(unless you just can't get enough of Will Smith)