I Am Legend

Have you ever wondered to yourself, what it would be like to have New York City to yourself? As lightly as you may imagine it, Will Smith experiences it throughout I Am Legend. It's really, kind of fascinating to see a vision of a deserted New York, and Will Smith is phenomenal in this.

Now if only those zombies weren't so fake!
A cancer vaccine-turned-virus wipes out 90% of the human race, and the other 10% turn cannibalistic zombies. But that .0001 percentage of the rest is scientist Robert Neville and his dog, immune to the virus. Alone in NYC for 3 years, with the exception of 20 million nocturnal zombies, Neville hunts through the abandoned city for deer daily, keeps good exercise. He even sets up mannequins throughout the city and names them. He's half-insane. At one point in the movie, he shoots a mannequin just because it's out of place.

He hunts the zombies at night, at day tries to find a cure for the disease that spread so quickly. But Neville is running out of time, and his sanity is slipping.

The CGI zombies are incredibly fake. They move with no realism. They dash at incredible speeds and breath incredibly fast. It's really bad when a movie with only one real character has special effects this bad to interact with. But the $6 million scene where the Brooklyn Bridge is destroyed...It's a marvel of acting, production, and for the only time in the movie, special effects.

Yes, it's another fake-CGI monster movie, with a terrible ending to boot. But Will Smith saves the movie. B