This is a movie with great acting and cinematography. What really highlights this is that most of the movie is told visually, creating an engaging story with minimal dialogue. If you're a fan of action, dogs, and zombies, I'd recommend this movie.

The world is once again in its post apocalyptic form on the big screen, and this time we are graced by the performance of Will Smith. A gripping narrative and a plot to match, this movie propels itself already to a higher place than many other movies that fall short on this aspect of cinematography. The formula for a great cinematic adventure is concocted by the choir of isolation and the quest for human contact begins. However, the world is now very dangerous, filled with newer threats than human greed for power and conquest. We have a chance to explore this forlorn, zombie infested world through the eyes of a brave man and his faithful dog friend. This movie, through on surface wears the guise of your typical z movie, is much more than that. The story is not sublime or hackneyed, and runs on the fuel of human innate desire for interaction. There are scenes that evince the onset of isolation and it's adverse effects, as Will traverses the ruins of the city that was once bustling with life. We are engaged deeply into the story because of how well the lead characters, particularly the protagonist, stay true to color and never give an non idiosyncratic performance. There is plenty of action to satisfy your cravings for some good ol' shoot-em-up, but that's just the icing on the cake. It's much more than that. It's a thrilling visual experience that doesn't skip a beat when it comes to special CGI effects to enhance the flavor of the film, leaving us some very interesting gut bursting, zombie annihilation. The movie juggles different themes of scarcity and abundance, isolation and accompaniment, destruction and creation. Yes, it's true that the world is wiped clean of human life and the busy, booming industrial gears of human society have come to a grinding halt, but nature finds a way. In the ruins of the botched cities, we see nature beginning to weave life as vines corral around the remnants of concrete structures, trees propping up in unlikely places, and cars are turned into a haven for critters. It makes people question how pragmatic our notions of necessity and desire have become, and how wrongfully we associate the two together in a world of materialism. The movie skillfully and hierarchically distinguishes the needs of a human being from the superficial desires that one could live without. The survivor must survive at all cost, not only the ravages of the virus that turns people into zombies, but the mind-numbing pain of loneliness.

I Am Legend is considered a very solid book adaptation film and a well level given performance from Will Smith. This is the type of film which showed Will Smith's box office and superstardom as the film was a one-man show and a huge box office success, making $585 million worldwide. The film starts off interesting as we see what occurred in the near future in a post apocalypse world. With little dialogue, and great visuals of New York City, the film has an an inetresting and engaging tone. The second half of latter part of the film when the woman arrives, starts to trend downhill. The film is decent but feels as if it could have answered a few more unsolved questions, as it does feel relatively short. There were rumors of a sequel (or prequel) considering its box office but as of now over a decade since it's time, we know the answer.

If this wasn't based on the book by Richard Matheson, it would be just another silly sci-fi flick. Still a very bad one, but one of many.Problem is, it is based on the book, a great one, but the message is fully reverted. It's not just an adaptation, it's a complete 180 degrees turn, almost as if the script writer hated the novel and purposely set on destroying its message.No spoilers here, suffice to say that even the title does not make sense in the context of the movie, while it is central to the book.I wish there was a law against adapting books without carrying the basic message more or less untouched. Turns out not only there isn't, but movie adaptations have the power to make boatloads of money, so I guess Matheson made some nice bucks from copyrights, and thus he might have been happy with the outcome. As a loving reader of his great story, I'm not.