pretty much an empty shell

Rating: 6/10 (5 May 2008)

I am Legend tells the story of Robert Neville (Will Smith) the last known survivor of a deadly plague that was created by a cancer cure that ended up killing of the world's population and turning a small portion of it into light phobic man eating zombies.
It has ups and downs like a lot of films these days, Will Smith plays his role very convincingly, and an empty New York makes for an ideal setting and tone for the film.
The down part about it is the second half and the cgi, the zombies (or whatever you want to call them) are completely done with cgi, which ended up looking rather silly than scary, the cgi was actually very pointless, using live actors with make up effects would have created more realistic creatures instead of the cartoon like zombies you get, and the second half of the story strayed a lot from character development to a pointless storyline that becomes very uninteresting, the very few action scenes in the film did very little to generate much excitement at all.
I have not read the original book by Richard Matheson or seen the other two film adaptations but this film, aside from the performance by Will Smith and having the ideal setting and tone, is really nothing to be overly excited about, its pretty much an empty shell.