Watch the trailer not the movie

Rating: 3/10 (5 February 2008)

When some movie ends, you can't help but ask yourself: "Why?", "I am Legend" is such a movie.
Why such a good start and such a cheap ending?
Why such a good acting (Will Smith) on such a poor story line?
Why such a minimalistic presentation of the victims of the KV Virus, leading to the incoherences or unfinished feelings?
Why trying to build a religious and moral crap 15 minutes from the end?
Why ending without answering some questions: the KV virus is apparently only for humans, dogs and rats?... Why some people are immune?... What is the liquid he pours in front of his door?...
Why the trained and fit military background man such as Will Smith character fails where an underfed religious fanatic and 12 years old kid succeed?
Why the hell does he start sleeping into his bath and ends up into his bed?
Why with all the technology at his disposal doesn't Neville even have a pair of night goggle or light amplification ones to go into dark building rather than use a torch lamp that betray his position...?
So regardless of how appealing the background is, or how good Will Smith struggle to survive and achieve something is, there are too many WHY for me to call it a good movie
From the middle to the end of the movie, the degenerated human victims of the KV virus had an uncanny CGI facial look (eyes expression, bald head) and superhuman movement (jump, fighting abilities) resemblance to their older brothers of "I Robot".
The special effect to turn NY into a desolated Island are great but the effects used onto the KV Victims is poorly convincing, which is a shame as recent movies have shown quite stunning looking undead/monsters...
The inconsistencies are constant in the movie, especially after meeting the first KV Victims.
What can be infected and what can't, deers, lions are at loose in Manhattan while from the first night we can hear hundreds of owls of mutants, how did they manage to survive that long? I can't see anything surviving a rat swarm if all the rats turned into the things in Neville's laboratory...
The KV virus turns its victims into a hairless, super zombie, sensitive to UV, OK fair enough then how comes that theses zombies are able to make a trap and not able to to just move within the shadow of the buildings or even wear clothes to protect themselves. Why do they know where he gets his DVDs from and after 5 years not even know where he lives?
The whole night/sun light which is appealing and creates a sort of pressure at the start of the movie turns crap after the mutants dogs' attack... If the dogs are just hurt by direct exposure of sun beam and stand in the shadow of the building why can't the other zombie mutants do the same? This part was probably the most disappointing one as it created a huge confusion.
Neville goes around all NY apparently mapping a list of buildings completely empty, surely these buildings are in the dark, no? So why does he freaks out to enter the building where the deer and dog have entered and just enters a new habitation building so casually?
Why not exploit the indication that the zombies have a new community with leadership and control over animals rather than as Neville says "they have lost all humanity"?
Why not exploit the fact that the subdued zombie used by Neville for his experiment was the "mating" or "female partner" of the tribe leading zombie? The two points above would have reinforced the reason for Neville to fight to find a cure...
All through the movie we are fed with a couple cool ideas and it turns into an anticlimax, especially the last minutes at the safe heaven, with the cheap wall and door guarded by a couple guys with assault rifles and the sound of a church bell...........
Will Smith plays very well but sadly it's not enough to turn it into a good movie and it's appalling to see how many people have so little reflexion... I may have been harsh with 3 but it surely doesn't deserve a 8
Enjoy or not, as usual this will be your call but you have been warned