I Am Legend is a fair movie. Will Smith gives a brilliant presentation as Robert Neville in keeping with the topic of the original novel. The final scene in the video store where he asks the manequin to address him is brilliant.
The story differs quite significantly from Matheson's tale, however this is satisfactory because of the way that amount of the original story happens within the feelings of the focal character and wouldn't have made an interpretation of well to a movie. The regime of excersize, hunting and isolation in the over-developed NYC is extremely nice indeed - presumably the nicest treatment of this topic delivered to date - surprisingly better than 28 days after the fact.
Lamentably, that is the place where the praise for the film closes, as it accompanies two significant issues. The first is "The Infected". In Matheson's epic, despite the fact that the vampires (as they are in the original book) are beasts, motivated by killing the uninfected, they can still explanation and at last form into a society.
In the film, they're nothing more than emaciated people, similar to the animal from The Mummy, which flawlessly dove-tails into the second, and biggest thing going against this movie - the CGI. This should be a dreadful, unnerving tale about a man encompassed by enemies with no real way to get away.
Murderous beasts who show the ability to reason and to tackle issues. Because of the Mummy-esque" CG, this illusion is completely broken. The beasts appear as though something from a below average video game and aren't unnerving, ever. This is a misuse of potential on each level - each time the beasts blew some people's minds around and did their totally inhuman, unbelievable "thunder", my heart sunk. CG can be far superior to this, Golem from LOTR being a prime example. If just they'd went through the cash they ought to on making the impacts work within the movie, this would have been a 9/10. Note ought to have been taken from Robert Carlyle's stunning presentation in 28 weeks after the fact to show how these beasts ought to have acted (and they are different stories using similar universes, so comparisons would have been fine here) instead of the low spending plan, hammy, unscary manikins that were utilized instead.
The focal foe (maybe a tribute to Ben Cortman from the novel) was particularly terrible, attempting to make personality from something which was simply absurd. An unpleasant shame considering how great the remainder of the film was - even the presentation of Samantha the canine was outstanding