Storyline:
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone. Mutant victims of the plague -- The Infected -- lurk in the shadows... watching Neville's every move... waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Perhaps mankind's last, best hope, Neville is driven by only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood. But he knows he is outnumbered... and quickly running out of time.
Additional Information:
Directed by: Francis Lawrence
Produced by: Akiva Goldsman, James Lassiter, David Heyman, Neal H. Moritz
Screenplay by: Mark Protosevich, Akiva Goldsman
Based on: I Am Legend: by Richard Matheson
Starring: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan
Music by: James Newton Howard
Cinematography: Andrew Lesnie
Editing by: Wayne Wahrman
Studio: Village Roadshow Pictures, Weed Road Pictures, Overbrook Entertainment, Heyday Films, Original Film
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date: December 14, 2007
Running time: 100 minutes, 104 minutes (Unrated version)
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $150 million
Box office: $585,349,010
Critiques:
"In what has been a pretty remarkable career up to now, it's this performance that fully affirms Smith as one of the great leading men of his generation." Scott Foundas, Village Voice
"I Am Legend is a blockbuster like no other, one that finds its grandness in modesty. It's a star vehicle with a star who knows his place in the universe." Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
"The movie year's most expensive and ambitious sci-fi spectacular, I Am Legend, is three movies in one: a futuristic effects-o-rama, a zombie thriller and a survivalist parable. Each is better than average, and the experience is fairly gripping." William Arnold, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Slick, adrenaline-fueled fun." Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times
"Instead of maintaining its edgy sense of constant discomfort, the movie is compelled to make Neville as fuzzily adorable and messianic as possible."Desson Thomson, Washington Post