I think this is another ordinary movie from Hollywood. The plot was about a man named Robert Neville (Will Smith), the last man on earth who survived from Kripper Virus (once was the most famous medicine, which was able to cure cancer) which caused a massive wipe-out on earth. Neville was one of 12 million people who were immune to the airborne and contact strain of the virus. Unfortunately, other immune people had been eaten by the 588 million people who were infected by the virus and became zombies/vampires/mutants. Neville was the only human in New York, living with his beloved dog, Samantha. Neville was also a colonel in the US army, and a scientist in virology (good thing for him!). Where was his family? His wife – Zoe (Salli Richardson) – and their daughter – Marley (Willow Smith, another real-life child of Will Smith besides Jaden!), passed away on a helicopter accident when they were about to be evacuated from New York 3 year earlier (when the virus was spreading). Neville practically living alone, searching for food and stuffs by crashing into other flats and houses, visiting DVD store and talking to mannequins by daylight, and hide himself in his house by sundown. He had never wanted to move from New York because it was the ground zero, his site, and he really wanted to find the cure of the virus (which he did found, in the end. Well, you must have found it out from the title. If he didn’t find the virus, the title won’t be I Am Legend, right? :D).

KOMPAS wrote that it is the stage for Will Smith to do his monologue. I agree, because in most of the movie, Will Smith only spoke to himself, to mannequins and to his dog. Francis Lawrence was really a director who’s not aware of details and tiny (important) things. You will find many bloopers in the movie!

1. The red Mustang he rode at the beginning was the only vehicle which was very clean! Where did he put it? Because the other cars (including his other vehicles) were very dirty and dusty.
2. One night, Neville slept in his bath-tub, hugging Samantha and felt afraid of the zombies’ voices out there. He woke up on his bed, without Samantha in his arms.
3. Where did Anna come from? She didn’t explain it, while the bridge to the city had broken 3 years earlier.
4. Why were Neville, Anna and Ethan immune to the virus? As a famous scientist (and the only hero in the movie), he didn’t explain it.

The good thing was the visualization and how they made that kind of Manhattan. Will Smith is the best thing of the movie. If it wasn’t him, I don’t think the movie will got US$ 76.5 million on the opening night. Will Smith played really great, he could make me cry on the flashbacks and on the scenes with his dog, he could make me feel the same loneliness as Robert Neville did. KOMPAS was right, it is his stage. Hail to Smith! He’s still one of my favourite actors!