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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: HD DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391176343
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 08, 2008
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 4337
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 14, 2007
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Robert Neville is a brilliant scientist but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable incurable and man-made. Somehow immune Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and maybe the world. For three years Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone. Mutant victims of the plague -- The Infected -- lurk in the shadows... watching Neville's every move... waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Perhaps mankind's last best hope Neville is driven by only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood. But he knows he is outnumbered... and quickly running out of time.Format: DVD HD Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS UPC: 085391176343 Manufacturer No: 1000026364
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Will Smith stars in the third adaptation of Richard Matheson’s classic science-fiction novel about a lone human survivor in a post-apocalyptic world dominated by vampires. This new version somewhat alters Matheson’s central hook, i.e., the startling idea that an ordinary man, Robert Neville, spends his days roaming a desolated city and his nights in a house sealed off from longtime neighbors who have become bloodsucking fiends. In the new film, Smith’s Neville is a military scientist charged with finding a cure for a virus that turns people into crazed, hairless, flesh-eating zombies. Failing to complete his work in time--and after enduring a personal tragedy--Neville finds himself alone in Manhattan, his natural immunity to the virus keeping him alive. With an expressive German shepherd his only companion, Neville is a hunter-gatherer in sunlight, hiding from the mutants at night in his Washington Square town house and methodically conducting experiments in his ceaseless quest to conquer the disease.
The film’s first half almost suggests that I Am Legend could be one of the finest movies of 2007. Director Francis Lawrence’s extraordinary, computer-generated images of a decaying New York City reveal weeds growing through the cracks of familiar streets that are also overrun by deer and prowled by lions. It’s impossible not to be fascinated by such a realistically altered cityscape, reverting to a natural environment, through which Smith moves with a weirdly enviable freedom, offset by his wariness over whatever is lurking in the dark of bank vaults and parking garages. Lawrence and screenwriters Mark Protosevich and Akiva Goldsman wisely build suspense by withholding images of the monsters until a peak scene of horror well into the story. It must be said, however, that the computer-enhanced creatures don’t look half as interesting as they might have had the filmmakers adhered more to Matheson’s vampire-nightmare vision. I Am Legend is ultimately noteworthy for Smith’s remarkable performance as a man so lonely he talks to mannequins in the shops he frequents. The film’s latter half goes too far in portraying Smith’s Neville as a pitiable man with a messianic mission, but this lapse into bathos does nothing to take away from the visual and dramatic accomplishments of its first hour. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  - Sooner or later...they will find you
At first I had next to no interest to go see I AM LEGEND when I first heard of it's release and it's promotional advertising. It seemed like another film following in on the success of such films as 2004's Dawn of the Dead or even 28 Days Later. I soon found many people I knew raving about it just because it was an intelligent film. No one seemed to compare it to any other film. I couldn't help but have my curiosity piqued and I had never really seen anything with Will Smith as the lead star so I figured there wasn't any problem in seeing such a large-scale film upon the big screen.
Robert Neville (Will Smith) is in the middle of apocalypse... surrounded by nobody. After a devastating epidemic caused by an experiment that was supposed to cure cancer sweeps through the world, Robert finds himself victim to his own genes as simply one among the small percentage of population who would've been immune to the virus. Aided by his faithful dog Sam, he copes with his days by remembering the last moments he spent with his wife Zoe and daughter Marley, while also struggling with new challenges such as grabbing the attention of two survivors: Anna, a kind but brave woman, and Ethan, a little boy who refuses to say a word. However, two survivors aren't the only things he's grabbed the attention of...
My favorite thing about the whole story are the six main characters. Lead gracefully and thoughtfully by Will Smith who could've easily ruined his career had he not carried the entire film ... Read More
Rating:  - Inconsistent, with Gaping Plot Holes
This story had so many horrible plot holes that by the end I was glad it was over. Will Smith doesn't sacrifice himself to save the world; he just wants out of the lousy story he's become a part of.
The opening scene is a ridiculous, pathetic masturbatory commercial for the Ford Mustang GT500. I mean, really, who would hunt deer from a speeding sports car, even if you actually could? This opening had me shaking my head in disappointment, and the rest of the movie didn't take that feeling away.
The CGI was lame, shallow and low-budge throughout. Almost all of the viral-zombies (VZs) were CGI, and were not convincing.
All the VZs did was run really fast, climb like vampire-monkeys, and of course open their mouths really wide and roar a lot. Man, we've seen this dumbass mouthy-roaring gimmick a million times since it became the de rigueur monster stunt in the first Mummy movie. Now it's just trite and predictable, and no longer effective.
So, Will Smith is an Army LTC doctor, with a massive townhouse right on Washington Square in the heart of Manhattan, with a completely outfitted viral research suite in the basement? And he has all of the trappings of the pre-Armageddon life because he's resourceful n' stuff n' all? Yeah, puh-leeze.
And he powers all this stuff in his house and the lab with three or four Honda--nice product placement!--generators, which we see running happily . . . in the flipping pantry! Hollywood, there is this ... Read More
Rating: - Not what I was expecting
Will Smith's character thinks he's the last man in NYC after a devastating virus is unleashed. His will and determination to exterminate the virus, while saving the people powers the film, even when he is the lone actor in the scenes. It was interesting to see him handle so much time by himself. I had been warned against this movie, but I'm glad I didn't listen because it was a pretty good movie.
There were ultimately some scenes that I could have lived without, some scenes that made me cry, and some scenes that I thought were very cute. It was interesting how a movie could combine so many different genres into one, and still maintain a simple plot line.
I don't think it is an absolute must-see movie, but it is a movie that you should try to see if you get the opportunity. You don't have to be a big sci-fi fan to get into it. You just need to keep somewhat of an open-mind.
Rating: - Hard movie to get through
The special effects in this movie is top notch. The acting is pretty good as well and the story telling is pretty darn good as well. Why didn't I like this movie then? It just wasn't very fun. There wasn't a lot of human interaction.... it was basically a Will Smith monologue and while he did a good job listening to Will Smith talk to himself for over an hour gets old real quick. The zoombies or living dead special effects wise were top knotch but they were a little creapy (which is probably what they were going for).
Strangly enough everything in this movie was done well except the fun factor. This is kind of a depressing movie and nothing really good happens until the end (kind of like Will Smith's the Pursuit of Happiness) and by the time that happens it just isn't enough.
Rating:  - Not much happens
This was an okay movie that I saw twice and do not like. I especially liked Will Smith's acting and the dog, but to see the infected is ridiculous. Nothing much seems to happen except a while after Robert Neville does what he normally does, he is not careful and is lured into a trap set up by the Infected, then is helped by another character, and then dies after the Infected finds out where he lives.
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