Startling the audience with fulminating noises, sudden commotion, or creatures lashing out at the screen may be easily effective, but it’s also cheap. It’s not intellectual or psychological tension like that found in the works of Alfred Hitchcock, but mere boo sequences that jounce with unexpected flashes of movement. The most impressive (for fans of the genre) and simultaneously annoying aspect of “I Am Legend” is the lingering apprehension – a sense of perpetual unease. The constant jump scares become routine and the stodgy creature designs are curiously reminiscent of “The Mummy’s” Imhotep, lending to a picture that might be intriguing at first glance, but can’t deliver on its engaging premise.įrom the first few minutes of the film, it’s more than apparent that the last man on earth is not alone. Lone survivor Robert Neville (Will Smith) faces the monotony of isolation (as seen in “Silent Running” or even “Cast Away”) and grasps at the hope that he can discover a cure for the virus that has wiped out civilization (as seen in “28 Days Later” or “Resident Evil”). Hough this is the fourth time the story for “I Am Legend” (based on the novel by Richard Matheson) has been adapted for film (first as “The Last Man on Earth,” second as “The Omega Man,” and third as “I Am Omega”), the script is unduly similar to countless other horror and sci-fi films of late.
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