When I first watched the
movie "I Am Legend" was when I was about 11 years old with my mom and
the minute it got to the part with the screeching zombie humans I was out of
the room. But, a few years later, I matured a little more and decided I was
ready to watch it again, and it turned out to be a really great watch.
The movie stars Will
Smith as almost the only character in the entire movie minus the flashback
scene that explains how he got to be apparently the only human left on the face
of the earth. But he soon finds out that isn't the case.
Smith plays Robert
Neville, a scientist who is evidently the last human on Earth. As we learn in a
prologue, humans have discovered a cure for cancer; but flash forward several
years and it turns out that the supposed "cure" has either killed those
to whom it was administered or turned them into light-fearing, superhuman
monsters called Dark Seekers. Spending his days searching for a cure and
hunting in the abandoned streets of New York City, Robert is slowly becoming
consumed by his isolation. But after he apprehends one of the Dark Seekers, he
discovers that he has become part of a dangerous cat and mouse game with the
monsters' alpha male. As the Dark Seekers close in on him, Robert races to find
a cure while trying to regain the humanity he ironically lost in the lonely
process of trying to save humankind.
In his adventures throughout Manhattan
trying to stay alive and find cure for this terrible plague on mankind, he
comes across what seems to be the proof that he isn't the only one left in the
world and there may still be hope for the human race after all. He meets a
woman and her son that have been doing their best to survive in this rundown
world just like he is. Together they work together to keep each other alive and
possibly, just possibly, save the world from the terrible sadness and
destruction that has fallen upon it.
Overall this movie does a fantastic job with the action
scenes, special effects, and depicting the world of what could happen if we
keep doing destructive things to it and what could happen if we aren't too
careful with our scientific discoveries and experiments.
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