Great movie...with a crap Fundie ending.

Rating: 8/10 (15 December 2007)

I just returned from watching I AM LEGEND with Will Smith.
And although it is only hovering around 60% approval on rottentomatoes.com, I have to say that I was completely engrossed throughout the entire film.
I don't know what some of the critics are complaining about. The movie was frigging creepy, sometimes downright terrifying, and often truly saddening.
Will Smith is better than ever. Gone are the tiresome wise cracks, posturing, and showboating that plague so many of his other films. His character Robert Neville is commandingly portrayed as disaffected, forlorn, scared, persistent, brave, and even borderline insane. And the German Shepherd in the movie is almost as good.
The script, the CGI, and the tempo are almost perfect.
This is a simple story of survival.......ultimate survival, and its costs.
1 hour and 37 minutes out of the 1 hour and 40 minute running time was worthy of inclusion in a Top 25 Films of All Time List.
The ending........the pathetic, religious over toned and fundie acquiesced finale however, is further evidence of Hollywood's total and utter inability to grow some balls and deliver a Big Budget/Blockbuster film that doesn't end.........how can I say it....."Happily Ever After".
There were so many other ways a statement could have been made in this film. So many other means by which it could have inflicted deeper impressions. But alas, any grasp or teeth it had is ripped out in the last 3 minutes by a resolution that could only have been test screen approved in Salt Lake City or at the Republican Convention, Go see it...... But leave at 1:37 of its running time. It kicked major ass until then.
-Jason