I Am Legend (Blu-ray, Original & Alternate Versions) PG-13
The last man on Earth is not alone
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 3 hours, 24 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 18, 2008
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Will Smith | |
Performer: | Dash Mihok, Charlie Tahan, Alice Braga & Willow Smith | |
Directed by | Francis Lawrence | |
Screenwriting by | Akiva Goldsman & Mark Protosevich | |
Original story by | Richard Matheson | |
Composition by | James Newton Howard | |
Produced by | Akiva Goldsman, David Heyman & James Lassiter | |
Director of Photography: | Andrew Lesnie |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
It is absolutely gripping in its vision of how lonely it would be to be the last man on Earth. It's absolutely dull in almost every other respect.
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Sydney Morning Herald
I wouldn't dream of giving away the ending, but it's not likely to satisfy either the action crowd or Matheson fans.
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Newsweek
4 stars out of 5 -- [I]t's a lean, eerie sci-fi thriller with the kind of brains and heart not normally found in multiplex movies, and some genuinely affecting moments.
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Rating: 2/4 --
Smith is an appealing screen presence, but the film needs more than just that to stay alive.
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The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
Smith turns in a terrific performance, nailing Neville's angst while allowing room for humor.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Inevitably, ideas give way to special-effects
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CinePassion
When they do, banging their heads against plate glass as movie zombies always do, I started needing something else to think about.
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NPR.org
Product Description:
In I AM LEGEND, Will Smith joins the ranks of Vincent Price (in 1964's THE LAST MAN ON EARTH) and Charlton Heston (in 1971's OMEGA MAN) as the star of an adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel of the same name. Often surprising in its focus on loneliness and loss, this thoughtful, eerie, and restrained sci-fi horror film provides a parade of startling visuals, but never allows special effects to overcome the human element. Smith, in a strong performance very different from his usual persona, is Robert Neville, the lone survivor in a New York City where streets are overgrown and deer gambol among deserted automobiles. Following an epidemic, the Earth's population has been turned into an army of nocturnal zombies. Immune to the virus, military scientist Neville searches for a cure in his Washington Square townhouse. Haunted by visions of his family leaving quarantined Manhattan two years prior, he drives through the city with his German Shepherd, Sam, by day and barricades his home from the monsters nightly. But when Anna (Alice Braga)--another immune stranger-finds him, they will have to fight the onslaught twice as hard.
Akiva Goldsman and Mark Protosevich's emotionally-charged script showcases the charisma of Smith, who commands the screen alone for most of the picture (aside Abbey, a talented German Shepherd). Director Francis Lawrence (CONSTANTINE) uses music minimally, wisely allowing the eerie cityscapes to remain mostly silent. The set pieces, including an overgrown, deserted Times Square and a lion hunting a deer in the Flatrion District, are goosebump-inducing moments of stark beauty. Though some may question the rendering of the monsters in CGI instead of using actors, it does allow them to be frighteningly acrobatic. A chilling and effective adaptation of a horror classic, I AM LEGEND is also a thought-provoking piece of Hollywood filmmaking.
Akiva Goldsman and Mark Protosevich's emotionally-charged script showcases the charisma of Smith, who commands the screen alone for most of the picture (aside Abbey, a talented German Shepherd). Director Francis Lawrence (CONSTANTINE) uses music minimally, wisely allowing the eerie cityscapes to remain mostly silent. The set pieces, including an overgrown, deserted Times Square and a lion hunting a deer in the Flatrion District, are goosebump-inducing moments of stark beauty. Though some may question the rendering of the monsters in CGI instead of using actors, it does allow them to be frighteningly acrobatic. A chilling and effective adaptation of a horror classic, I AM LEGEND is also a thought-provoking piece of Hollywood filmmaking.
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