A bit pretentious for a zombie movie

Rating: 5/10 (24 December 2007)

Mutated humans come out at night to eat the left over normal people. I've got the feeling I've seen that before in movies not worth remembering the title. That's what the movie is about, no matter how well the origin of these zombies is thought through.
As a zombie movie, it relies to heavily on the shock-effect, after the third time I spilled my beer, I got annoyed. And there's no other real suspense or flow to it to carry it. It seemed to have an effect on the audience but it's just the effect, not substantially different or from popping a balloon behind someone's back.
I like Will Smith's performance, though the movie is a bit short on good dialog, due to the story line. I also liked the scenes of a desolate Manhattan, and the little visual jokes (Van Gogh), but the computer graphics of the zombies were ugly, although up to today's standard. We will laugh about in 20 years, just how we are amused by old Dracula movies with the ropes visible. But if that's the best the computer graphics industry can do, than it must be great to look at, isn't it? It's quite an enjoyable movie, that won't get you bored to easily. But it's certainly not worth any more attention than 1,5 hour in the cinema.