I Am Legend (D+) Disappointing remake of the Richard Matheson story. It gets good for about 60% of the movie, then takes a short, sharp turn into the lame. The good: You get a compelling character story of how one man deals with enforced solitude for an extended period of time with no-one but a dog to keep him company, whilst being surrounded by feral mutants, no less. There's a genuinely tense moment when Robert Neville (Will 'ah, hell, naw' Smith) is caught by a trap and mutant dogs are closing. Then a Latino woman and a mute kid show up... and the movie goes to shit. I suspect it's a case of gutless focus group marketing, and the addition of one of Satan's Imps in the film industry, Akiva Goldsman, being brought on board to make the story more 'audience friendly'. Avoid.
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