Review: I Am Legend
OK, let's get this out of the way: what a terrible title. Just awful. The runners-up must have been some real stinkers. Reminds me of one of the biblical names for the devil, I Am Legion.
This movie was pretty good for a zombie flick. Worth a matinee ticket. I very much liked that the cause of the zombie-ness was a virus design to cure cancer. It apparently had some unexpected side-effects. The law of unintended consequences in full bloom. (Let's see, that seems familiar somehow)
Will Smith was in his save-the-world persona and that's what was called for here. As the Spousal Unit mentioned, Mr. Smith is starting to look -- not old but no longer young. Happens to all of us if we're lucky.
At 101 minutes the movie came in way too short. Whole swaths of potential storeline were snipped away so that key story points touched the screen only briefly, like a stone skipping across the water. This left the movie experience much less satisfying than it should have been.
On the whole, for a zombie movie it was better than most.