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Not Quite Legend
By ariel in Entertainment, Movies, film, Will Smith, I Am Legend, Richard Matheson on December 15 2007
I Am Legend is the almost movie of the year. It’s an almost movie because it’s not a bad one, but when you come out of the theater you feel that it could have been so much better. If you are a Will Smith fan, or a groupie of a deadly virus killed everyone but one sole immune survivor genre, then you are all set. Smith is doing a good enough acting job and with an adorable German Shepherd as a sidekick, you can’t really go wrong. The story, based on the book I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, is not so bad either, at least the starting point (again, you gotta love the genre).Dr. Robert Neville (played by Smith) is the last human survivor in New York City ruins, fighting the infected mutant who come out at night and will kill any living creature, while trying to find a vaccine to their disease. Ten years ago, this might have been a great movie, but today, after movies like 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, or even The Invasion, it’s only almost, borderline mediocre.
