I had the opportunity to see "I am Legend" last night, and unfortunately I was left with more questions than answers. It was definitely entertaining and at times stressful enough to have me pressed into the back of my seat, but it should have been split into two movies. A mini-series, perhaps.
Getting to see New York City as a natural wonderland is fascinating, as is watching a lone man survive in the forest that once was Manhattan. It's especially interesting to see how he has used all of the abandoned junk to live almost as he would have in a normal situation, and to wonder if I could be so clever as to make an entire townhouse run off of car batteries and pump gas straight out of the tanks. It would be unbelievably cool to steal a brand new Mustang and shoot stuff out of it with a semi-automatic rifle I snaked from the local armory.
Will Smith is great, but they should have gone deeper into just how crazy he was going. The german shepherd carried the movie, let's be honest. Who knew dogs can act? What they did show of Smith's decent into madness was gripping.
Now for the negatives. This should have been split to give the story decent play. The back story is shown through flashbacks, which is creative for an apocalyptic-zombie thriller, but it was darn confusing. How did the virus mutate? Why did it have the vampire/zombie effects on humans? How long did it take to build up? Were the darkseekers really devolving, or were they in fact evolving? And why exactly did they keep the "I am Legend" title when the entire point of that title was lost in this film?
At any rate, it was highly entertaining, if the ending was a bit of a deus ex machina.
They need to cast more German shepherds in movies.
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