This is not a cheesy vampire/zombie flick. I found it to be a thought provoking and frankly a frightening ‘what if’ movie.
“I Am Legend”, is loosely based on Richard Matheson’s 1954 short story of the same name. Most of earth’s population has perished due to a plague caused by a manmade virus, originally intended to cure cancer. This manmade horror kills the majority of what it infects and what it doesn’t kill it turns into devolved humanoids that roam the streets at night and feed on the uninfected.
Will we outsmart ourselves right into extinction? Will Smith plays Lt. Col. Robert Neville, a military scientist who is immune to the virus, hunting for a cure, and slowly being driven mad by loneliness and frustration.
Will Smith’s performance was riveting and left me wondering how a person might cope when faced with the realization that you are quite possibly the last intelligent human left on earth. Overall, this movie was more than worth the price of admission. It doesn’t rely on over the top CGI effects; it relies on an intelligent audience allowing themselves to get caught up in the story.