I Am Legend Spoiler Review
Big disappointment. This movie had a lot of hype working for it and anybody that read the 1950’s book of the same title knew the potential of this film. When I first saw the preview for this film, I thought, “Wow, this is gonna be good”. I was dead wrong.
The biggest disappointment comes in the form of the Night Seekers. They decided to use computer generated imagery to bring the creatures to life. Unfortunately all they did was make everything unrealistic. The CGI was horrible considering the technology that is readily available for such a big budget film. Honestly, I think I would have preferred it if they used real actors to portray the creatures. “30 Days of Night” proved the effectiveness of this as it makes it that much more believable.
The ending was horrendous. They tried to make everything piece together all of a sudden and it just didn’t work for me. I mean, his belief in God’s plan was suddenly revamped because he saw that the female survivor had a butterfly tattoo (his daughter was making butterflies with her hands before she died). And why did he have to sacrifice himself at the end? He had enough time to throw the grenade and jump into the hole with the others. That’s what grenades are for aren’t they? For throwing. Not for sacrificing your life when there were obvious alternatives.
Another part that got to me was the part where he fell into a trap and they (him and his dog) fought 3 mutant dogs. He was caught in a booby trap (created by the apparently intelligent night seekers) which knocked him unconscious until nearly sunset. There were a couple things that I had to question about this scene. First of all, if the mutant dogs were able to come out into the shade, why didn’t the rest of the night seekers come out as well? Also, why the hell would Dr. Neville decide to crawl only to jump up and limp at the very last moment? This is a man with military training and the smarts of a doctor and he decided to crawl? I just found that stupid and, like the majority of the movie, unrealistic.
Thumbs down for “I Am Legend”. Big thumbs down for killing off the dog.
Posted by Frank N. Stein
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I agree with you on those scenes — especially when he was attacked by mutant dogs. I guess the “leader” thought that his dogs could take care of a single human.
As for him sacrificing himself, I also questioned it at the theater. I mean, his vaccine was apparently working for his “patient,” so why didn’t he just let the seekers feed off of her instead of giving up his life?
That entire scene at the end was just mind boggling to me. In fact, I found myself questioning why he did a lot of the things that he did during the coarse of the movie.
I’m not going to say the movie was any better than you thought it was, because I was also disappointed with it.
However, I have a few possible explanations to the things you pointed out.
I didn’t understand the sacrificing himself instead of jumping into the hole, however it might’ve been that the hole was too small (as evident by the girl and boy being cramped in it) to fit all three. *shrug*
As for why he crawled, he might still have been in shock/pain (he landed on his knife didn’t he?) and then only jumped up when pure adrenaline took over.
Though these are just explanations from the story view of the movie. In real life… he’d probably be jumping for his life from the beginning
“he’d probably be jumping for his life from the beginning”
…couldn’t agree more. What more does it take than a pack of mutant dogs to get the adrenaline pumping
As for the hole, the female had said that there was room for the three of them. Cramped or not, I’m sure it’s better than death by self-explosion
It’s nice of you to try and make excuses for this movie but let’s face it; this movie was a big flop. Too bad for Will Smith as he was very good.
It does portray how someone would react to no one (as seen with the mandikins) because I would go insane though the zombies didnt really give me that feel of what they should look like i mean if the lord of the zombies were so smart why not just break into every building