I AM LEGEND.........

Cast :Will Smith, Alice Braga, Salli Richardson-Whitffield, Willow Smith, Charlie Tahan
Director :Francis Lawrence
Producer Akiva Goldsman, James Lassiter, Erwin Stoff, David Heyman, Neil Moritz
Writer Akiva Goldsman, Mark Protosevich, Richard Matheson
Official Site http://iamlegend.warnerbros.com/
Release Friday December 13 2007 (New Delhi INDIA)
Genres SciFi/Fantasy, Action/Adventure, Drama
Distributor Warner Bros.
I Am Legend" — So if we must watch the last man on Earth wandering about aimlessly, it may as well be someone who can hold our attention like the charismatic Will Smith. (Vincent Price and Charlton Heston took on the role with less success in previously cheesy adaptations of the Richard Matheson sci-fi novel, 1964's "The Last Man on Earth" and 1971's "The Omega Man," respectively.) While Smith certainly conjures both pathos and absurd laughs as Robert Neville, a military scientist whose immunity to a deadly virus leaves him stranded in Manhattan with only his trusted German shepherd for companionship, it's the visual effects in director Francis Lawrence's film that truly dazzle. CGI-enhanced images of Times Square, Washington Square Park and Tribeca, eerily silent and still and covered in weeds, provide a haunting set-up. Then come the Infected — the ones who didn't die from the virus but rather were transformed into shrieking, flailing crazies who only come out at night (Dash Mihok is their hairless leader). And here's where "I Am Legend" turns from a quiet meditation on the nature of humanity into a B-movie schlockfest. It's also a bit too convenient that when Neville eventually runs into other people, it's a beautiful woman (Alice Braga) and her son, who are about the same age as the wife and daughter he lost during the city's frantic evacuation. PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence. 100 min