I Am Bored...

Rating: 4/10 (18 December 2007)

Tedious.
They make us write much more to have a review accepted, but basically that one word sums it up nicely. There is nothing new this movie offers in any way. Sure it's a remake (or rethinking), but even remakes can add something new to the material. But "Legend" isn't anything new, and nothing makes us think. It's heavy handed, uninteresting, lacks any psychological depth, has no character development, and has an only somewhat believable premise that devolves into unbelievable garbage by about 1/2 way through. I wanted to leave, but thought I'd stick it out and see if it got better. It never did.
Since I must write more, here's a major, major problem with the film (WARNING: my contain a spoiler). In a nutshell, Zombies are a fun idea, but humans don't instantly turn into super strong killing machines with powerful jaws, 10 foot vertical leaps, and the ability to screech like banshees. Muscles don't instantly grow, body fat doesn't instantly drop away, etc., etc.. Sorry, can't happen. And while in a typical Zombie movie, you might say so what? In this movie, one that is grounded in reality, sorry, you MUST maintain that level of reality. We are asked to suspend disbelief too many times in this film, and that's what makes it a bad movie, not just a mediocre one.
On the upside, 1/2 of the special effects were good. Anything mechanical (cars, helicopters, buildings, etc.) was amazingly realistic. Anything living (Zombies, more zombies, zombie dogs, lions, deer) was horribly rendered and over the top. I lived in Manhattan, and I was convinced they were there. They passed right by the entrance to my building, and it was completely real. But the lions and deer and dogs were not. Not even close.
Anyway, this movie will make a lot of money at first, but will drop away very quickly and in a year nobody will remember or talk about it again. There is no Wilson moment in this movie... ;)