I Am Legend (2 Disc Special Edition Including Digital Copy) [2007] | ![I Am Legend (2 Disc Special Edition Including Digital Copy) [2007]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xRXyRxxmL._SL75_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Francis Lawrence
Actors: Will Smith, Dash Mihok, Willow Smith, Charlie Tahan, Salli Richardson
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 1401
Format: Box Set, Dts Surround Sound, Pal, Special Edition, Subtitled
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 195
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 7321902294483
ASIN: B0012YG7NC
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: April 21, 2008
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Will Smith stars in the third adaptation of Richard Matheson's classic science-fiction novel about a lone human survivor in a post-apocalyptic world dominated by vampires. This new version somewhat alters Matheson's central hook, i.e., the startling idea that an ordinary man, Robert Neville, spends his days roaming a desolated city and his nights in a house sealed off from longtime neighbours who have become bloodsucking fiends. In the new film, Smith's Neville is a military scientist charged with finding a cure for a virus that turns people into crazed, hairless, flesh-eating zombies. Failing to complete his work in time, and after enduring a personal tragedy, Neville finds himself alone in Manhattan, his natural immunity to the virus keeping him alive. With an expressive German shepherd, his only companion, Neville is a hunter-gatherer in sunlight, hiding from the mutants at night in his Washington Square town house and methodically conducting experiments in his ceaseless quest to conquer the disease. The film's first half almost suggests that I Am Legend could be one of the finest movies of 2007. Director Francis Lawrence's extraordinary, computer-generated images of a decaying New York City reveal weeds growing through the cracks of familiar streets that are also overrun by deer and prowled by lions. It's impossible not to be fascinated by such a realistically altered cityscape, reverting to a natural environment, through which Smith moves with a weirdly enviable freedom, offset by his wariness over whatever is lurking in the dark of bank vaults and parking garages. Lawrence and screenwriters Mark Protosevich and Akiva Goldsman wisely build suspense by withholding images of the monsters until a peak scene of horror well into the story. It must be said, however, that the computer-enhanced creatures don't look half as interesting as they might have had the filmmakers adhered more to Matheson's vampire-nightmare vision. I Am Legend is ultimately noteworthy for Smith's remarkable performance as a man so lonely he talks to mannequins in the shops he frequents. The film's latter half goes too far in portraying Smith's Neville as a pitiable man with a messianic mission, but this lapse into pathos does nothing to take away from the visual and dramatic accomplishments of its first hour. --Tom Keogh
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 suspend your boring disbelief and just enjoy it for what it is! June 27, 2008
I have not written a review for quite some time and after reading and hearing some of the negative criticism about this film i felt i had to give my opinion after watching it last week. In fact i almost didn't watch it based on some of the complaints i heard, such as: "The C.G.I. monsters are awful and really fake looking", "The ending sucks", erm yeah and that's about it, I don't think I've heard an other issues with it.
SO, first of all this is not a typical action film, the Initial scenes echo loneliness and desolation, and I felt these scenes were truly amazing to behold, evoking sadness and compassion, seeing the wild-life roaming free in a once never sleeping city and the plant life breaking it's way through the concrete is truly breathtaking and allows you to see through the everyday prison that we live in, consumerism, crime, the media, etc etc. And it makes you wonder why we need all these things- is that what makes us human? could we actually survive without it? or do we need to thrive off of it in order to feel content with our lives? anyway.....
As in "the pursuit of happiness" Will Smith gives off an excellent performance, played out with passion and conviction, not once do you think: "this is just an actor in a film" (although you know that) he is very believable and you feel you are there with him all the way.
Anyway onto the C.G.I, as a digital media student and an absolute film buff i have to say the C.G.I really isn't that bad, what matters is the performances, credibility and your capability to completely let go and immerse yourself in a good movie, if your one of those people that fath about with your phone and struggle to keep your eyes on the screen, (of any film) then your not going to be able to fully appreciate the movie for what it is, a visual glorification of a desolate dystopian future in which man-kind have evolved into vampire like creatures with a driving hunger for their human counterparts.
My thoughts on the C.G.I beings are so what if they don't look 100% real, they're not human anymore, so what does it matter? they still appear to be there in flesh and blood, they do not look 2-dimentional, Smith's interaction's with them both physical and emotional makes them believable enough, so it adds a touch of surrealism, big deal. you have to suspend your belief a little for the majority of films anyway, that's the whole point of it!
the only part where it was far too noticeable was when he had the female creature on the table and the camera showed her from a low angled perspective, her breasts looked "odd" and yes, she didn't look real, but the rest of the film works so it wasn't really an issue for me and i am normally very fussy on such things!
Now, with regard to the ending, yes i found it a little frustrating, as anyone would know that he didn't have to do what he did, there were other options available as everyone who's seen it and can put 2 and 2 together will know, but on the other end of the scale we had watched his whole persona change throughout the film as we learnt what he had been through previously and that all he had left was them taken away from him, and then saw him loosing hope and cracking, etc etc. so maybe that would cause him to do what he did?
Anyway the good news is that if you buy the 2 disc special edition you can watch the film with an alternative ending, and it's not just slightly different, (like with the alternative endings in cloverfield) it's major different! and changes the whole film! well sort of. Things that i had suspected with the "evil beings" all came into perspective and gave the film a different spin questioning who the evil ones truly are? have they really lost all their humanity? or are they just trying to survive?
I really preferred the Alternative ending and can't understand why they didn't use it as the theatrical ending? maybe they thought some would find it corny, which it may be just a little but much better than the original ending which just makes you feel annoyed!
Anyway, that's the end of my review, i strongly recommend potential viewers to watch the film for themselves and to watch the Alternative ending also if you can, it's definitely worth buying the special edition for! suspend your boring disbelief and just enjoy it for what it is!
Not an Americanised 28 days later, or a typical action flick, i would say it is more of an emotional affair that question's our humanity and capability to survive beyond consumerism, capitalism, and ultimately, evolution.
 Will Smith make's it work for me. June 25, 2008
When reading the original reviews in the film magazines I was given the impression that this was not a great movie on which to put my money on as the CGI was dissapointing.
So much so that this rendered the film "NOT VERY GOOD!".
Thankfully they were wrong and what you have here is a very moving film in parts played with full gusto by a very impressive Will Smith.
The way that he shows us through the camera how 3 years of isolation, 3 years of hiding and hunting and 3 years of trying to find the ever illusive cure for mankind's desease ... is as realistic as you could expect it to be if you were ever thrown into the same circumstances.
The crushing isolation is all the more apparant when you realise that it was he that set up the mannaquins in the shops to make it feel that there was still some remenance of life.
The CGI of the vampirish city folk is not the best but is far FAR from being the worst either. You soon forget about the short comings and really get into the characters (or should that be character & dog?) .
Impressive, is the New York landscape.
Grass growing up through the roads, cars rusted where they stopped.
Shops stacked with never again to move items and four legged CGI wildlife roaming where once people trod.
The city scenes are breathtaking so much so that you can sense the isolaton.
Well worth the price and definately worth watching twice .. just incase you were wrong the first time!.
P.S. I havent read the book yet but am about to buy it and will then compare.
 Another overated overhyped Hollywood hash up. June 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The first part of this movie seemed very promising indeed, bleak apocalyptic etc..etc..
But as the movie came to its climax or should i say anti-climax, it just became lost, meaningless & pointless.
It basically looked as though Hollywood wanted to make more money, made a film with a high profile actor to bring in the crowds & shazam!!! Money maker!!!
Utter rubbish imho, which seems to be the norm these days, chuck in well known actors, CGI effects & poor story, rent before you buy.
 I Am Legend, 2 disc edition. June 21, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This film is 'I Am Legend' in name only, it bears very little relation to the book of the same name. This aside, it is a fairly good movie with post apocalyptic themes and a storyline that will keep you interested for the 96 minutes duration. Will Smith plays the role of the relationship starved army medical researcher well. You really feel for him when he talks to mannequins and at his relationship with his dog. The action is pretty good, although the computer graphics left a lot to be desired, both the various animals and the 'dark seekers' seemed very dated compared to other computer graphics films. This is an OK film, that should keep you watching until the end. As long as you don't expect a faithful rendering of the book you should be fine. Watch it with an open mind and you'll get what it sets out to be, an action film that shows another side of Will's acting and how one copes on his own in a world where everyone else is dead! The extras on the second disc are OK, but nowhere near as extensive as other films out there. A solid three star film.
Playing and preaching Bob Marley doth not a serious movie make. June 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The equation of a director of Britney Spears/Jennifer Lopez music videos + the saviour of the world from Independence Day was always going to give flickering noisy horde-fighting explosive tripe.
There's 10 better zombie movies on the shelves (just fast forward to get the same effect) and there's dozens of 'cool guy saves the world' movies but in them the central actor doesn't get out-performed by a dog. Will Smith does not even come close to being able to carry a movie on his own the way Tom Hanks did in Cast Away. When he starts trying to get a manequin to talk to him it's one of the most winceable scenes imaginable and you don't know whether a laugh track is going to kick in or whether an alien/robot/zombie is going to smash through the window to save him from the folly of his ridiculous acting.
The plot, acting, and monsters end up being a seriously annoying distraction to the very well done backdrop of ghost town New York...as soon as the monsters get introduced the rest is pretty much predictable popcorn selling drivel.
Avoid like the plague.
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