A decent science fiction

Rating: 7/10 (17 December 2007)

Recently i got an opportunity to watch the new Will Smith movie "I AM LEGEND". whatever the promos had shown and what the movie in fact had was like tracking two antipodes simultaneously. The Man v/s Wild theme was not only nonexistent but it also was made in consequential by some ingenuous screenplay. Ia happy to say that finally sci-fi has come of age and the director shows this by presenting to us a deserted but not impoverished city.
the theme is brilliant (at least better than aliens or psychopath-organisations bent upon ruling the world) Will Smith is brilliant. H e shuns melodrama.His character is also quite superbly written unlike Kurt Russel's escapes. The hero here has all the natural emotions and fears that govern normal men.
the only thing that seemed lacking in the film was perhaps a hastened ending which in turn was triggered by a serious lack of imagination in the later half of the movie. All in all a good spine chilling thriller that is definitely one of the better movies which deal with the future in a way that it can be somehow digested.