For two-thirds of the film, Smith is the only person you see onscreen. ![]() Will Smith does a good job in the role of a driven man trying to fend off madness in a solitary world – but then, it’s not a big stretch for Smith to play a likable character. They’re basically the same mindless, superhuman monsters we’ve seen in 28 Days Later, a movie series that is 10 times better than I Am Legend. The monsters, although created by science, are considered the bad guys, not the victims. Neville, the “last man on Earth,” is the Boogeyman.īut in the film, Will Smith’s Neville is a likable, sympathetic widower frantically trying to find a cure for a virus that has turned virtually every human into a vampire/zombie/monster. The irony of the novel is that the vampires created by Neville’s experiments have created their own civilization, and Neville has become the stuff of legend – a nocturnal monster who preys upon the vampires, kills them and performs experiments on them. In the case of I Am Legend, being blissfully unaware of the source material (Richard Matheson’s novel of the same name) might have made the movie more enjoyable, because the theme and the dark irony of the novel are betrayed in favor of a happy Hollywood ending.In the book, scientist Robert Neville is the monster, the bad guy.
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