I Am Legend

WARNING: Contains some spoilers of the movie

So on January 4 I went with a couple friends to see 'I Am Legend' starring Will Smith. Initially I expected it to be the generic human vs. creature movie ... good guy finds creatures, they fight, good guy wins in the end and everything gets better. While I won't give away too much from the movie (in case you decide to buy or pirate it), but it definately did not follow that typical path.

We're introduced to Smith's character, who is living alone with his dog Sam in NYC. Through flashbacks at various points in the movie, we learn about his family and find out what happened to them. We also find out how he came into posession of the only surviving normal canine in NYC. He behaves in many ways how most people might. He drives really nice vehicles around, he goes and gets CDs and DVDs from a local store to play on his TV (which he probably didn't buy), and just tries to get through his life, to find a cure for a disease that has left him one of the sole survivors of a genetic holocaust.

Basically it's broken down this way: there were 6 billion people on the earth, and about 3/4 instantly died from the disease. Then out of those remaining, more than 500 million became these nighttime creatures that fed off of many of the remaining 12 million normal humans. In the end we discover that some of these statistics are flawed, but I won't give away too much.

Overall I would give it an 8 out of 10. I thought the storyline was unique and interesting, but the script was weak. At only an hour and forty minutes, it sort of seems like they feared going too long. I would have sat through a two hour movie of the same storyline if was a little more interesting. Also, if you don't like "crappy" endings, you probably won't like this movie's ending. Despite this, I say the film as a whole was good.