Certificate
15
Number of Discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States of America
Director of Photography
Andrew Lesnie
Reviews
The Guardian - No one... could fail to be impressed by the gobsmacking digital creations of an empty, ruined Manhattan, Village Voice - In what has been a pretty remarkable career up to now, it's this performance that fully affirms Smith as one of the great leading men of his generation., Maxim - I AM LEGEND is mind-blowing excitement, Rolling Stone - Big Willie has no problem holding the screen... director Francis Lawrence (CONSTANTINE) keeps you squirming, The Hollywood Reporter - Smith, sporting a newly buffed physique, delivers an extraordinary performance as a man slowly coming unglued under the strain of no human contact and a constantly alternating role of hunter and prey, The Times - A beguiling portrait of ache and isolation in post-apocalyptic New York, New York Post - A scary, inventive, exciting and breathless adventure that combines the best elements of CHILDREN OF MEN, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK and THE ROAD WARRIOR, New York Times - There is something graceful and effortless about this performance (Mr Smith's), which not only shows what it might feel like to be the last man on earth, but also demonstrates what it is to be a movie star, Entertainment Weekly - Smith is the perfect actor... to play a survivor who has no one to talk to but his dog and himself... he also draws on the vulnerability he showed last year in THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS, ReelViews - As Tom Hanks did in CAST AWAY, Will Smith pulls off this half-insane role perfectly., BBC - Smith bravely mines dark emotional depths, Los Angeles Times - Slick, adrenaline-fuelled fun
Author
Richard Matheson
Consumer Advice
Contains strong violence and horror
Additional Information
In I AM LEGEND, Will Smith joins the ranks of Vincent Price (in 1964's THE LAST MAN ON EARTH) and Charlton Heston (in 1971's OMEGA MAN) as the star of an adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel of the same name. Often surprising in its focus on loneliness and loss, this thoughtful, eerie, and restrained sci-fi horror film provides a parade of startling visuals, but never allows special effects to overcome the human element. Smith, in a strong performance very different from his usual persona, is Robert Neville, the lone survivor in a New York City where streets are overgrown and deer gambol among deserted vehicles. Following an epidemic, the Earth's population has been turned into an army of nocturnal zombies. Immune to the virus, military scientist Neville searches for a cure in his Washington Square townhouse. Haunted by visions of his family leaving quarantined Manhattan two years prior, he drives through the city with his German Shepherd, Sam, by day and barricades his home from the monsters nightly. But when Anna (Alice Braga)--another immune stranger-finds him, they will have to fight the onslaught twice as hard.
Akiva Goldsman and Mark Protosevich's emotionally-charged script showcases the charisma of Smith, who commands the screen alone for most of the picture (aside Abbey, the talented pooch). Director Francis Lawrence (CONSTANTINE) uses music minimally, wisely allowing the eerie cityscapes to remain mostly silent. The set pieces, including an overgrown, deserted Times Square and a lion hunting a deer in the Flatrion District, are goose bump-inducing moments of stark beauty. A chilling and effective adaptation of a horror classic, I AM LEGEND is also a thought-provoking piece of Hollywood filmmaking.
Movie/TV Title
I Am Legend
Composer
James Newton Howard
Sound source
Dolby Digital
Screenwriter
Mark Protosevich, Akiva Goldsman
