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I Am Legend

2007

Francis Lawrence

Will Smith, Alice Braga, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Paradox Pollack ...

6.5

106,728

Sci-Fi. Action. Horror Year 2012. Robert Neville is a brilliant scientist, but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable...and manmade. Somehow immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City...and maybe the world. But he is not alone. He is surrounded by "the infected"--victims of the plague who have mutated into carnivorous beings that can only exist in the dark and that will devour or ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[It] does contain memorable scenes (...) The movie works well while it's running, although it raises questions that later only mutate in our minds (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"The film can never quite decide whether it's speculative fiction or a B-movie horror show (...) [Smith] delivers an extraordinary performance"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Willie has no problem holding the screen. In fact, trouble enters only when the script overcomplicates things in the end. Until then (...) [it] keeps you squirming (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Remarkably eerie yet annoyingly larded with cheap horror-film shock effects (...) An effective but also irksome adaptation of Richard Matheson’s classic 1954 sci-fi novel"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"It is the charismatic force of [Smith's] personality that makes his character’s radical solitude scary and fascinating, as well as strangely appealing."	POS
United Kingdom	Dan Jolin Empire	"While the sun shines, it’s a four-star thriller with a superb turn from Smith. When the moon rises, it’s a two-star horror cartoon with some of the worst FX we’ve seen all year (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Walter Addiego SFGATE	"The conclusion is a big problem. The previous adaptations (...) also ended differently from the novel (and each other). But this latest wrap-up is (...) the least satisfying of the three (...) Lawrence is pretty good at the spectacular stuff"	NEU
United Kingdom	Sukhdev Sandhu Telegraph	"What started out so promisingly (...) disappears in a frenzy of screaming, head-banging, bloodiness - followed by totally unconvincing redemption."	NEU
United States	Tasha Robinson AV Club	"[It] feels like two movies jammed awkwardly together (...) For its first hour, at least, it's a haunting film"	NEU
United Kingdom	Nigel Floyd Time Out	"Despite the striking post-apocalyptic images of nature returning to the city (...) Lawrence’s vision is timid and evasive (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Tom Charity CNN	"It looks like an edgy suspense movie shot on the fly in New York City after the fall. And because of that, it's all the more effective."	POS
United States	Todd Gilchrist IGN	"Spectacular, but superficial (...) [It offers] populist pleasures to delight and distract from matters of artistic (much less cultural) substance."	NEU
United States	Dana Stevens Slate	"It’s the mechanics of his day-to-day survival that are most fascinating for anyone who’s imagined surviving doomsday."	POS

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