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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD EAN: 0085391176367 Format: Anamorphic, Color, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Warner Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: Warner Home Video MPN: 1000026366 Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: March 18, 2008 Running Time: 100 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: December 14, 2007 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Why can't movie makers provide movies in Blue-ray that are FULL SCREEN. I will not buy any movies that are not FULL SCREEN. Blue Ray is not Blue Ray without the movie filling the whole screen just like if I were at the movie theatre. Rating:  - Sooner or later...they will find youAt 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 ... Read More Rating:  - Inconsistent, with Gaping Plot HolesThis 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 ... Read More Rating: - Not what I was expectingWill 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, ... Read More Rating: - Hard movie to get throughThe 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 ... Read More |
