Could have been better, but hey, it's Hollywood - about alternate ending

Rating: 7/10 (26 February 2011)

I'm not gonna say that this is the best or the crappiest movie ever - though I shall only be referring to the film with the 'controversial' ending, the one that actually is a 7, the regular version is a 5 in my book. So if you haven't seen this, look for a version with the alternative ending!
So, long story short, vampire people wobbling around a deserted city, seemingly soulless animals that have it in for our hero and his lovely pooch. Acting is above average, and way above anything I expected from Will Smith, and if you're a fan of apocalyptic sci-fi-ish horror flicks, you can watch this without being disappointed. It's actually more scary than most actual horror movies I've ever seen.
*Spoilers begin here!* The thing that actually makes the regular version a lot crappier than the one with the proper ending, is that in the first, we have a hero, in the second we have an anti-hero. A cocky representative of the human species, that thinks that if it looks like a soulless monster, it must be a soulless monster, is trying to find the cure by deriving it from his naturally immune self. Noble you might say, but this guy ends up killing hundreds of sentient beings, because he can't look outside his human box and say 'hey, maybe these bastards aren't as hollow as I thought', not even when a vampire dude walks into the sun just to try to grab a friend/daughter/girlfriend from the clutches of out scientist dude. 'He must've been real hungry' Neville says and doesn't give it a second thought.
At the 'controversial' end, he realizes that the creepy guys were after him because he had ruthlessly killed hundreds of their own, and they wanted to retrieve the most recent capture he had made. The thing that would've made this story a 9 star one would have been if our anti-hero would have died, after realizing that he had killed non-savages. Be it by shooting himself or by slitting his writs and letting the guys have a bite, it doesn't matter, though I'd go with the latter, but the guy should have died. All in all, that's what legends are, dead guys that people talk about for a long time.
Anyway, the alternative ending is really worth it, and though, as I read in a review here, the film gets kind of preachy and god-loving as soon as the new female presence is detected, and though that annoys the hell out of me too, I recognize the fact that I wasn't the only one targeted for this film.
Bottom line, watch it, it's cool - but with the alternative ending!