Next year will mark 65 years since the novel "I Am Legend" came out. It has since been turned into many movies, most notably "The Last Man on Earth" ten years after the book came out, followed seven years later by "The Omega Man" starring Charlton Heston fresh off his roles in "The Ten Commandments", "Ben-Hur", and "POTA", and then this movie, which broke records for a December gross for a movie that was later broken by other movies. Fun fact, there is a fake poster advertising a batman v superman movie that would come to be a reality almost a decade later.

This is another film that gets a lot of hate, mostly because of the ending. I thought it was a decently done post-apocalyptic film that features only one actor for the majority of the film. It was a fun watch that executed better than many critics would like to admit. It may sound like I'm heavily praising this film for something I only have a 6/10 to, but I think I Am Legend's negatives have already been magnified in other reviews.

Continue my plan to watch every Will Smith movie in order, I come to I Am Legend (2007)Plot In A Paragraph: Three years after a man made cure for cancer evolves, causing all infected to either die or turn into bloodthirsty monsters, Dr. Robert Neville (Smith) alongside his dog, Samantha, are the last survivors in New York City, and possibly the world. Neville, in the meantime, struggles to find a cure.I know the movie gets a lot of hate, but I really like it. We get some decent acting from Will Smith, especially when he is talking to the mannequin in the video store, after THAT death. Which I still hate to watch. It's not perfect, some of the cgi isn't great, it has a few plot holes and I don't care how far in the future this is set, I don't believe anybody would never have heard of Bob Marley, yet knows his son Damian Marley (whom I'd never heard of) but that's just a minor gripe.Overall it's well acted, well paced and has a good sense of atmosphere. I like it. I Am Legend grossed $256 million at the domestic Box Office (his third movie of $250 million and 7th $100 million grossed in a row) to end the year, the 7th highest grossing movie of 2007. His best performing movie since Men In Black 10 years earlier.

Movie Review: "I Am Legend" (2007)Based on a 1954 published science-fiction horror novel by Richard Matheson (1926-2013), made into an independent Hollywood movie in 1971 entitled "The Omega Man" starring Charlton Heston (1923-2004) in where the infected crowd transformed into a kind of vampire-zombies, yet razor-sharp thinking and organized groups building, due to a lab-developed anti-cancer vaccine developed by Dr. Robert Neville, here portrayed by gut-out, lone survivor playing actor Will Smith, taking approximately 15% of producers James Lassiter and Neal Moritz organized 150 Million Dollar production budget for the Francis Lawrence directed remake for the 21st century, which unfortunately stumbles over indecisive concluding premise shots and creature designs, which look alike throughout the picture and downgraded to mindless-attacking, non-speaking speed-freaks that may excites for 60 Minutes under the abandoned New York City environment with leading character Neville introducing ways to survive alone. Nevertheless the missed opportunities in making shot-connecting, innovative camera motions under talented cinematographer Andrew Lesnie (1956-2015) and the - in comparison to the director's debut "Constantine" (2005) - monotone production design diminishes the overall feel of full-circle quality motion picture entertainment on the 10th anniversary of "I Am Legend" released on December 14th 2007.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)