Nice pieces, bad whole

Rating: 3/10 (2 January 2009)

This movie was a total let-down. There were some nice scenes that elicited a reaction, but it was overall terribly disappointing. My wife came in at one point and asked about it since it sounded interesting. I assured her that she was missing nothing (though she might have disagreed about the completely self-indulgent scene of Smith working out). I assured her that, it being a Will Smith movie, humanity would be saved, but not after the dog dies, probably by Smith's own hand (of how right I was).
Will Smith stinks as an actor. I really wanted to like him for years. However, he has really screwed up three of my four favorite genres: aliens (MIB), robots (I Robot), and now zombies. If he screws up a vampire movie I will never trust the man again.
Was this not a (very) poorly made remake of 28 Days Later? The CGI zombies (dark seekers, whatever) were TERRIBLE. I was waiting for Gollum to call them out and ask WTF were they doing to the legacy of the Ring trilogy. Those movies are worse because of this one. That is hard to do, but Legend is that bad.
How dense was Will Smith when he did not figure out that the reason the one Gollum went into the sun was because Smith had just captured his old lady.
I wish that Will Smith would go back to doing bad sitcoms that my dumbest friends would watch in their college dorm rooms. He is not a movie star, or at least should not be. He cannot chose a script and he plays the same character in each movie.