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I AM LEGEND MOVIE REVIEW

12/14/07

Permalink 08:03:36 am, by MR. BLACK Email , 5 words, 215 views   English (US)
Categories: Action-Adventure

I AM LEGEND MOVIE REVIEW

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Rating: 3.3 out of 789 votes cast

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Comment from: Arneil [Visitor] Email · http://add
NICE 1 !!
PermalinkPermalink 12/22/07 @ 22:03
Comment from: riven [Member] Email
I thought the movie was great! Though I did expect Will Smiths attitude to change from I want to save you too I am going to kick some @!! when his dog died. And what army Col only has 2 weapons, sets his perimeter charges too close to his house and drives in a mustang?
PermalinkPermalink 12/28/07 @ 17:36
Comment from: BASIL [Visitor] Email
REALLY IS BIG MOV NICE I LIKE THIS MOV WILL STORE IS COOL AND I GIVE THAT MOV 5 STER
PermalinkPermalink 12/29/07 @ 15:43
Comment from: Evo [Visitor] Email
Have any of you people ever been to a restaurant where you ordered cheese cake for desert and got ice cream instead? Well this is what you'll get if you watch this movie if you have read the book. My advice is: Don't watch it!

For those of you who haven't- go for it! You might even like it. Having spent so much money on bloated propaganda and adverts makes it very appetizing to watch. Even I fell for it and I am ashamed to admit it. If a friend tells you that the book is great don't go to the cinema with expectations to "see" the book: this is not the type of Harry Potter film. This is some other book. In fact the film has been misnamed. It should have been called "The Legendary Zombie Killer" or something within those lines. Sure enough it has a few things "stolen" from the book but it has nothing to do with it. The entire point of the book has been changed. Here are some highlighters for you:

1. Robert Neville is really the last survivor of the human race. The rest are Vampires- not Zombies of a mutated cancer curing virus.

2. He does not have a dog. He finds one and it dies in his arms within a week thus deepening his agony and desperation.

3. He does not meet another immune human. He is tricked by a Vampire so he can be captured by the emerging Vampire Civilization.

4. The human race is no more. He dies as a "Human Dracula" Legend to the new Vampire race that now populates the world and he will forever plague their dreams (like Dracula plagues ours). He dies with this realization in mind and that is why he says: I AM LEGEND.

Having said all that, the movie is quite ordinary: Just some guy killing zombies. Cool effects (sort of) and nice action but that is all. I wander what Richard Matheson really has to say about how his book was portrayed. Obviously someone in Hollywood must have been eager for quick cash off otherwise such travesty would never have happened. I guess we'll never get a public apology.

Will Smith also gets a huge chunk off his impressive reputation. For a demanding role like this one he plays good but not good enough. He is just not the actor that the viewers can accept as gone crazy and does not live up at all to Robert Neville's personage.(Bruce Willis might have been the better choice)

The propaganda and "official" critiques makes me ask questions to which I will probably never get answers. Why would I Am Legend get such high rankings and Catwoman received seven Golden Raspberry nominations in 2005? When you think about it both films are too far off the original script. At least Halle Berry accepted the award for Worst Actress personally, apologizing for the film. Let’s see if Will Smith will have the courage to do the same. Let's all hope so for his sake. After all this was the worst film for 2007
PermalinkPermalink 02/08/08 @ 20:24
Comment from: case [Visitor] Email · http://visitor
i thought this movie was one of will smiths best movie.Some people ive talked to said the ending sucked and that they would not have guessed that it would happen,well i told them if you watch the previews then it shows him dieing at the end of the previews.i did like the story,graphics,and the great acting by will smith. Will did a great job showing different emotion at such a fast pace.other people asked me why did he only have to guns. i told them he had many around the house and if you would pay attention when he is doing is daily rounds that you would know that. i think this movie has a great chance to win an award.
PermalinkPermalink 02/17/08 @ 21:55
Comment from: STRETCH [Visitor] Email · http://visitor
I really enjoyed this movie..
there is alot of good acting in here!

theres action,drama,and comedy and just a little bit of horror for kids under 7.

I GIVE THIS MOVIE 5 STARS
PermalinkPermalink 03/17/08 @ 19:22
Comment from: rocoxl [Visitor] Email
positive; good acting,cool imagery,good drama negative;slow paste,so so ending,lacks action,repetiteve.Overall not a classic disaster movie but worth checking out 3 out of 5
PermalinkPermalink 03/30/08 @ 12:43
Comment from: pontiac66r [Member] Email
I thought this movie was great, like you said seeing new york ruins was priety cool, yeah I didn't know that that's where will smith working out came from.. mr.t hanha.. that's realy not so cool but still go with the bad ass sellection you said, didn't know he talked to manakins though, ha ha that was funny about relating that to the volly ball in cast away, anyways thought you gave it a great review, what it deserved the three stars, and hope to see more!
PermalinkPermalink 04/09/08 @ 06:13
Comment from: Niall [Visitor] Email
firstly i would like to say i have seen two reviews from MR Black and i have been impressed with both. I dont neccassarly agree with him at times but he clearly knows what he is talking about and he isn't just some idiot who writes for a paper.

now to the movie...i had it on the top of my lists of movies i had to see... however i was left deflated...i rarely blinked and really enjoyed the movie... at times it was strange... will smith certainly carries the movie... the story line was ok ... the ending for me wasn't great either... however i will watch it again and again and i will enjoy it as i do every will smith movie.
PermalinkPermalink 06/12/08 @ 19:33

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