Interesting movie about man-made plague that sweeps the world.

Rating: Null/10 (24 April 2008)

During this film we see clips of an interview with a doctor who explains how they have used genetic engineering to cure cancer. A 100% success rate. However, a few years later this turns into a man-made plague that kills virtually everyone on Earth.
Will Smith is Robert Neville, who apparently has developed an immunity to both air-borne and contact-borne microbes responsible for the plague. He is virtually alone in NYC, living in his home turned fortress, and with a lab in the basement. His mission is to develop a serum that will cure this curse. He experiments with rats.
As in many other movies of this genre, there is a large group of infected who did not die, but developed a rabid manifestation of the illness, and who could not stand the light so only came out at night, as Vampires might. We see Neville capture one of them, a female that he bound in his lab to experiment on.
Much of the middle of the movie shows Neville as he goes about on his daily hunts for food and other supplies that may be left over in the various buildings. At night he barricades himself into his home for protection.
He also broadcasts a repeating message daily, if anyone hears him he will meet them at a certain place at high noon. As the Castaway in 'Cast Away' had "Wilson" to keep him sane, Neville has his dog, Sam, short for Sanamtha. But he seems to be going crazy anyway.
Alice Braga as Anna and her young son eventually do turn up, and Neville doesn't trust it, he doesn't believe anyone is alive. But she knows of a safe place in the Vermont countryside where survivors are going. She wants him and his dog to go with them.
While this isn't a great movie, it certainly IS entertaining, and sometimes a bit scary. Will Smith does a fine job.
SPOILERS: The zombies aren't entirely stupid, and figure out where Neville lives. At night they break in, and corner Neville and Anna in the lab. He tells Anna and her son to hide in a safe corner, and to wait until daylight to travel. When the zombies finally break in, he sets off a high-power grenade which kills him but all the zombies also. But not before he draws a vial of blood from the captured zombie woman who finally was showing signs of reversing the illness. As the movie ends we see her and her son arriving at the safe location, and presumably the blood will help develop a vaccine that will eventually restore the world.