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| I Am Legend [Blu-ray] | ![I Am Legend [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JzKBIGxjL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Francis Lawrence
Actors: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Salli Richardson, Willow Smith
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (627 reviews)
Sales Rank: 299
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Running Time: 101 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: WARBR26365
UPC: 085391176350
EAN: 0085391176350
ASIN: B0013FBS20
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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 Post-Apocalyptic Horror/Drama With A Spiritual Edge November 11, 2008
In "I Am Legend" the apocalypse has hit the world, a man-made virus intended for good, intended to cure cancer, but gone horribly awry. On a planet now populated by hordes of mutated, vampire-like victims of the plague, a surviving military scientist (Will Smith, in his best performance), somehow immune to the disease, works in a fortified house to find a cure, walking the city with his canine companion in search of specimens to test various experimental treatments on, and in search for survivors.
He's set up a radio transmitter that sends out messages on all frequencies urging any other survivors to meet him at a certain time and place to band together, but day after day, year after year, he finds no one there to meet him. Interspersed with the post-apocalyptic time frame we see frequent flashbacks showing the early days when the 'cure' was going wrong, and global panic was breaking out. The plague victims are nightmarish creatures, shirking from the sun, ravenous, violent and mindless. During the nights the doctor barricades himself and his companion inside the house, but the ghastly creatures are out there, always. It's a bleak world being presented, but done well. I've noted before that 'bleak' is among the hardest moods to do right in a movie, but I Am Legend does it brilliantly. Part of it is that the grim mood is punctuated by touches of the idyllic: the abandoned city beginning to look alive again as all this beautiful greenery creeps in, deer bounding about...but there's nothing idyllic or peaceful once you get into the shadows where the creatures dwell. One of the creatures, in particular, is especially disturbing: he seems much smarter than the others, seems angrier than the others, and the others are starting to follow his lead.
**WARNING: POSSIBLE SEMI-SPOILERS AHEAD***
Eventually, Smith's character does come across another survivor, two actually: a woman and her little boy. Instead of just relief, tension soon follows. Smith has by this point become utterly defeated psychologically and spiritually - he no longer believes there's any hope of his finding a way of reversing the mutation, he's lost faith in just about everything, and he reacts with disbelief and almost anger as she claims God guided her to him, and her claims that an entire colony of survivors is out there waiting for them.
Where the movie goes from here I'll refrain from hinting at, but it continues developing. A lot of what happens in the latter parts are highly interpretative, and fascinating. The movie does miss a couple of opportunities, and is a bit slow in places, but those minor hindrances are blown away by the overall power of the movie. Emotional, at times frightening, at times spiritual, boasting great cinematography and great performances from a cast that has some very demanding material, I Am Legend is among the top movies of 2007. 9/10
 Great service! November 9, 2008
I ordered the movie as a Christmas present, and it came very quickly. There was no delay, and the seller kept in touch until the product was delivered. We have not watched the movie yet as it is for Christmas, but I have not doubt of the quality given the service thus far.
I Am Legend November 2, 2008
I haven't read Matheson's story (yet), so this is a review of the film and not the original story. Usually, I try to read the book before the film, to do justice to the original work, but Matheson's collected stories are a bit expensive, so I haven't prioritized it until now. The film is simply excellent on its own, though. I notice a lot of people have criticised the special effects in the film, but I found them to be marvellously done. Will Smith plays the role of Robert Neville, the last man alive in New York City, being immune to the virus that took out everyone else or transformed them into mindless hyper aggressive man-eaters.
The film takes place 3 years after everyone died or became monsters, and Neville has adapted somewhat to life as the last human, only enjoying the company of his Schaefer; Sam. They go on daily hunts for food and supplies during the day in the completely empty city, but once the sun starts to set, they hurry back home and prepare for the night. The night is when the teeming masses of "monsters" go out into the darkness to hunt, being sensitive to UV-light, something that prevents them from hunting during the day. Neville does daily tests on various animals and captured "Dark seekers" (the infected) to try to find out a cure against the disease. The way the empty city is filmed in beautiful autumn colours, and the contrast this makes against the intensity of the "Dark seekers", makes this a completely amazing film. Even though Will Smith does a very good role, I must say I question the choice of him in this role. Everyone I have talked to about the film says they just don't see Smith the "brother" as a brilliant scientist with a deep and interesting personality. I mean, "Get Jiggy with It"?!, with that went what little credibility he ever had as an actor.
That being said, I really can't find anything else to criticise this wonderful movie for, great story, extreme action, no decadence and an amazing cinematography. 5 stars.
Wondeful! October 25, 2008
I really liked this movie. I've seen movies that seem to take forever to watch but I watched I Am Legend and it was full of action (and some sadness) and didn't keep me looking at the clock, waiting for it to be over. I loved it, I cried so much at the end though.
Too much disbelief to suspend October 20, 2008
When it came out there was a great advertising and promotion campaign. Yet it did not fulfill its promises. One more survival film, you will say. Maybe but I am afraid it is more serious than that. One more epidemic film. Yes for sure, but yet it is deeper than that. One more zombie and living dead film then. Absolutely, but the disappointment comes from farther than that. The film uses three very common forms and it could have intertwined them and twisted them in a new creative way. But with one character and a dog, you do not go that far. In fact it is the whole argument of Stephen King's The Stand. The super flu, the dying of everyone, the survival of a few. But Stephen King remains human and the two antagonistic camps are human survivors and then they represent the two opposite impulses of the human species: to fight and kill to survive against others, and to organize collectively to survive with others. In this film the survivors are good humans and all the others are bad mutants. Badness in man is thus not human but antihuman. That is very naive indeed, especially when we understand the epidemic was caused by the irresponsible experiments of one doctor on thousands of people with genetically manipulated viruses. It is this vision of good humans attacked from outside by some who are no longer human at all that makes the film poor and even weak. Evil is not outside. Evil is inside. Anyone who says the reverse is just a blind man. Then the plot is no plot because we know what it is going to be. There is no surprise and no psychological death. And the dramatic events here and there are defused by too much disbelief to suspend. How did the woman arrive in Manhattan, how did she escape the house, how did she drive out of Manhattan, how did she know where to go? And many other questions like those. Then the legend becomes a fable and a weak one at that. Too bad because the theme could have been better and the author behind, Matheson, is supposed to be better than that.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
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