I Am Legend is a 2007 American post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Will Smith.
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I Am Legend is a 2007 American post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Will Smith.
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Iam Legend cast
Will Smith
Alice Braga Charlie Tahan
Salli Richardson-Whitfield
Willow Smith
Darrell Foster
April Grace
Dash Mihok
Joanna Numata
Abbey
Kona
Directed byFrancis Lawrence
Iam Legend review
The critics agree that if you're looking for a big, plenty-of-bang-for-your-buck action blockbuster,
I Am Legend is probably going to be the movie to help you sweat out some of those festive season toxins.A lightning-paced ride through a post-apocalyptic Manhattan where all the human beings bar Will Smith have been killed by a virus or transformed into zombie-like killers, this is a truly Hollywood movie, with all the positives and negatives that entails. "Conversely, the good guy here is no incidental plebe," she writes. "He's Robert Neville (Smith), thank you very much, decorated colonel, brilliant scientist, fortification specialist, booby trap whiz, moneybags, babe magnet, art collector, dog lover, hunter, gatherer, officer, gentleman, you name it."
A lightning-paced ride through a post-apocalyptic Manhattan where all the human beings bar Will Smith have been killed by a virus or transformed into zombie-like killers, this is a truly Hollywood movie, with all the positives and negatives that entails. "Conversely, the good guy here is no incidental plebe," she writes. "He's Robert Neville (Smith), thank you very much, decorated colonel, brilliant scientist, fortification specialist, booby trap whiz, moneybags, babe magnet, art collector, dog lover, hunter, gatherer, officer, gentleman, you name it." When we’re introduced to this landscape’s only human inhabitant - one Robert Neville (Will Smith), who is conveniently both highly militarily trained and a brilliant virologist - he’s seemingly enjoying his desolate environment, redlining a sports car through town, his faithful canine companion Sam (best animal performance of the decade, say us) gazing happily out of the passenger window. It’s a great opening sequence, especially when it transpires that Neville’s actually on the hunt, rifle in lap, seeking some venison to supplement his tinned provisions.
For a big studio genre film, I Am Legend goes a surprisingly long way to explore psychology, and Smith fearlessly dives headfirst into the mind of an individual who’s had no human contact for almost 40 months.
The little details ring true, such as when Neville chides his dog for not eating her vegetables - he’s anthropomorphised her so completely that he’s forgotten she’s a carnivore. Ignore the predictably dodgy science and plot-fissures, and you have a tentpole picture that doesn’t, for once, insult its audience’s intelligence. Until…
Sunset. Before we sink our teeth in, let’s make one thing clear: having cut his incisors on infernal comic-book adaptation Constantine, Lawrence knows how to crank tension and apply a shock. So, in its earlier moments, I Am Legend plays on our primal fear of the dark like a maestro. But when it comes to the blood-lapping “dark seekers”, Lawrence’s inadequacies come crashing through. A more experienced director would likely have taken a more clever, less profligate approach to this movie’s monsters. As would a filmmaker who was - like Danny Boyle, helming the superior 28 Days Later - forced to operate on a considerably more limited budget.
After all, what are the dark seekers? Skinny, pale, hairless people with a supernaturally advanced metabolism. So why on Earth did Lawrence choose to make them pure-CG conjurations? And what dismally dire CG it is, too. Lawrence’s ‘vampires’ are cartoonish phantoms, evaporators of fear who mercilessly inhale all the atmosphere so ingeniously woven during the daylight hours. Going full CG was the worst artistic decision Lawrence could have made - short of having the populace of New York suddenly jump out from behind the Empire State and shout “April foo-ool!” at Neville before cutting to the credits.
Iam Legend overview
A refitted virus designed to cure cancer has gone horribly awry,
doling out grusome death to 90 percent of the world's population and
transforming almost all of the rest of humanity into sun-intolerant,
bloodthirsty mutants.
By day virologist Robert Neville prowls the grass-grown hulk of a dead Manhattan, alone apart from his German Shepherd Sam, hunting the wild deer that now bound through the deserted streets when he's not in the lab under his Washington Square townhouse still desperately seeking a cure to reverse the plague that has already ravaged the world. He himself is immune, but has met only frustration in trying to pass his immunity on to the infected. His daily desolate plea to meet any other survivors at the South Street Seaport, near the destroyed hulk of the Brooklyn Bridge, echoes emptily through the radio bands.
By night his home becomes a fortress. The moment the sun escapes the sky the creatures stream forth from the dark hives in which they wait out the day, seeking blood. They have become aware of this lone survivor walking the streets of New York, killing them when he finds them. An alpha male among the once-human creatures, inflamed with animal passion, has become obsessed with finding Neville and destroying him.
As Neville clings desperately to the shreds of his sanity and to Sam after three years alone in an increasingly wild and post-human New York, he is tracked down by the creatures and targeted with his own traps, leaving him to wonder whether there's any future for himself and for humanity.
By day virologist Robert Neville prowls the grass-grown hulk of a dead Manhattan, alone apart from his German Shepherd Sam, hunting the wild deer that now bound through the deserted streets when he's not in the lab under his Washington Square townhouse still desperately seeking a cure to reverse the plague that has already ravaged the world. He himself is immune, but has met only frustration in trying to pass his immunity on to the infected. His daily desolate plea to meet any other survivors at the South Street Seaport, near the destroyed hulk of the Brooklyn Bridge, echoes emptily through the radio bands.
By night his home becomes a fortress. The moment the sun escapes the sky the creatures stream forth from the dark hives in which they wait out the day, seeking blood. They have become aware of this lone survivor walking the streets of New York, killing them when he finds them. An alpha male among the once-human creatures, inflamed with animal passion, has become obsessed with finding Neville and destroying him.
As Neville clings desperately to the shreds of his sanity and to Sam after three years alone in an increasingly wild and post-human New York, he is tracked down by the creatures and targeted with his own traps, leaving him to wonder whether there's any future for himself and for humanity.
Post-Apocalyptic Sole Survivor
The obvious comparison is to 28 Days Later and other empty-city thrillers, but in some ways I Am Legend has the greatest resonance with Tom Hanks's performance as the marooned Chuck Noland in Cast Away
(2000). Both films explore the effects of prolonged isolation from
human contact, driving their heroes to the edge of reason as their
solitary lives become increasingly unbearable. And both films are
carried by outstanding performes by a lead actor who must shoulder an
entire story virtually alone, with the limited opportunities for dialog
making extremely tricky the task of keeping an audience engaged and
sympathetic while slipping further and further away from normal
behavior. Smith's powerful performance here should convince any
remaining naysayers that he is one of the more talented and effective
actors of his generation.
The difference for Smith's character, as opposed to Hanks's Noland, is two-fold. First, Neville is moving through the ruined shards of his former life, walking empty broken streets that once thronged with hapless New Yorkers. And second, he is both hunter and hunted, pursued by vicious, vampiric mutants waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Neville limply deals with the former by arraying shop window mannequins as random shoppers in the DVD store he visits every day, using them as an excuse for dialog in his otherwise silent days -- on good days gaily, on bad days with a wretched starvation for interaction with another human soul. The second he copes with by stockpiling weapons and pursuing the cure, though some days hope is in short supply.
The difference for Smith's character, as opposed to Hanks's Noland, is two-fold. First, Neville is moving through the ruined shards of his former life, walking empty broken streets that once thronged with hapless New Yorkers. And second, he is both hunter and hunted, pursued by vicious, vampiric mutants waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Neville limply deals with the former by arraying shop window mannequins as random shoppers in the DVD store he visits every day, using them as an excuse for dialog in his otherwise silent days -- on good days gaily, on bad days with a wretched starvation for interaction with another human soul. The second he copes with by stockpiling weapons and pursuing the cure, though some days hope is in short supply.
Arresting Visuals Match a Riveting Performance
There are plot holes in I Am Legend,
largely from the film's stubborn focus on Neville that sidetracks
explanatory exposition. (Why the alpha male has fixated on Neville to
the point of engaging in deviant behavior, for example, is
underexplored.) Fans of the novel should be largely pleased, though key
elements have been changed: here Neville is a scientist, rather than an
ordinary man who learns virology because it has to be done. Sam emerges
here as his daughter's puppy, rather than a stray whom Neville befriends
for companionship.
And yes, the presence of this beautiful dog, though performing the same function as in the book, is part of the film's heartstring-tugging: in fact I Am Legend boasts two (2) doe-eyed children in danger and two (2) supremely steadfast and lovable dogs, if you count Sam twice (as a puppy, licking Smith's face in flashbacks, and as a still-face-licking adult). This Shepherd, at least, is not as gratuitous as the plucky, stunt-performing dogs in Independence Day or Inferno: Sam is a character, and as necessary as Wilson the soccer ball. Smith's musclebound physique would be a distraction, except the filmmakers show rigorous daily workouts as part of Neville's coping-mechanism routine.
The cinematography, by the renouned Andrew Lesnie, and special effects have created a thoroughly realistic abandoned New York, made all the more haunting by glimpses of a panicked, pre-apocalypse city. I Am Legend isn't a sci-fi shoot-em-up or a zombie monster mash: it's an intimate portrait of a man who's lost everything, including the entire world.
And yes, the presence of this beautiful dog, though performing the same function as in the book, is part of the film's heartstring-tugging: in fact I Am Legend boasts two (2) doe-eyed children in danger and two (2) supremely steadfast and lovable dogs, if you count Sam twice (as a puppy, licking Smith's face in flashbacks, and as a still-face-licking adult). This Shepherd, at least, is not as gratuitous as the plucky, stunt-performing dogs in Independence Day or Inferno: Sam is a character, and as necessary as Wilson the soccer ball. Smith's musclebound physique would be a distraction, except the filmmakers show rigorous daily workouts as part of Neville's coping-mechanism routine.
The cinematography, by the renouned Andrew Lesnie, and special effects have created a thoroughly realistic abandoned New York, made all the more haunting by glimpses of a panicked, pre-apocalypse city. I Am Legend isn't a sci-fi shoot-em-up or a zombie monster mash: it's an intimate portrait of a man who's lost everything, including the entire world.
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