Worth watching but the novel is still superior

Rating: 7/10 (25 July 2015)

This was not a bad movie and it is fascinating enough to grab my attention to the end, Will Smith plays the isolated Robert Neville very well, we get the sense of desperation, despondency and at times despair from someone in a very dire position and also the sense of the monster when Neville becomes little better than the creatures he his in conflict with. The scene with Sam the dog is very touching and again, we get the feeling of despair and sorrow from Neville. The infected are nothing short of frightening and unpredictable, they become strong and fast, but I felt they had more in common with the zombie's from the computer game Resident Evil as they become more animalistic and the infected lose their minds and their humanity which takes away what made them interesting in the original story. The story is fascinating enough but a little too simplistic and the ending is very moving but a bit too predictable and not as compelling as the one in the novel. Overall this movie is definitely worth a watch and it has a lot to offer as a movie, but the book still made for a more compelling and interesting story.