Decent but nothing Special

Rating: 6/10 (26 March 2008)

I Am Legend seemed like it was going to be awesome in the beginning, we open with Will Smith driving around and shooting animals for food in a deserted New York City, but the movie slowly drops in quality. There are tons of action scenes that seem to be important to the plot but they never pays off in the end. The Zombies were pretty cool but I definitely think they could have been done better; I do have to say that the action scenes with the zombies were amazing though. One part in the movie really caught my attention; Will Smith is walking through the city with his dog win he sees a mannequin in the street, he passes this occurrence off as nothing but all of the sudden the mannequin moves. This scene was freaking awesome, but it never pays off, the only thing that happens is Will Smith freaks out and shoots the mannequin up with a machine gun. The entire movie seems to be building up to something but in the end builds up to nothing. As I said before I Am Legend has some amazing special effects, the deserted New York is a modern day special effects masterpiece, but some of the CG in this movie is really questionable, like a CGI rat?! Since by the time this review comes out I Am Legend will be out on DVD I guess I will have to give you a recommendation about whether or not to go rent it or buy it or see it at all, and I guess I would say to go rent it from ITunes, or Netflix to see if you like it yourself but to me I Am Legend was a major disappointment, and only because of some stellar action scenes, I'll give it a 75 out of 100.