After A Long Development Period And Some Atrocious CGI. "I Am Legend" Barely Leaves An Impression.

Rating: 6/10 (26 August 2014)

"I Am Legend", was the last film I saw in the theatre of 2007. It was actually pretty good on the first viewing, but the second time around I started to get very little sensations that told me it really wasn't all that great.
Based on Richard Matheson's 1954 vampire classic of the same name. This film had been delayed since the 1980's, and had gone through a string of action stars while in production. Upon finally being released, how did it all fair out? Well Will Smith was extremely convincing in the role, you can sympathise with him in his state of constant isolation and there's enough scenes to show some real star power. I can appreciate that some scenes came off as genuine, but a lot more of them felt forced. It's also one of those few films that I don't think I can really attack the dialogue scenes or many of their scenarios as some felt lacking, yet it never really bothered me too much.
What I will attack however is the CGI, which looked utter crap. It was so unbelievably bad and horrible, it pretty much destroyed the film for me. In a day and age of such great makeup effects, how those film-makers looked at those scenes and didn't choose to include some practicality is beyond me. I feel I could be a little forgiving, but a lot of people I know hate this movie because of that unwise decision.
Final Verdict: It's far from accurate on the novel it's based on, I also reckon it isn't really necessary viewing. Will Smith puts on a good show and that's about all I can say from it. 6/10.