I Am Legend (Widescreen Single-Disc Edition) | 
| Director: Francis Lawrence
Actors: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Salli Richardson, Willow Smith
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  740 reviews
Format: Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 101 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 1000023980
UPC: 085391139621
EAN: 0085391139621
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: March 18, 2008
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| • | Robert Neville is a brilliant scientist, but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable, and man-made. Somehow immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and maybe 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. |
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Will Smith stars in the third adaptation of Richard Matheson's classic science-fiction novel about a lone human survivor in a post-apocalyptic world dominated by vampires. This new version somewhat alters Matheson's central hook, i.e., the startling idea that an ordinary man, Robert Neville, spends his days roaming a desolated city and his nights in a house sealed off from longtime neighbors who have become bloodsucking fiends. In the new film, Smith's Neville is a military scientist charged with finding a cure for a virus that turns people into crazed, hairless, flesh-eating zombies. Failing to complete his work in time--and after enduring a personal tragedy--Neville finds himself alone in Manhattan, his natural immunity to the virus keeping him alive. With an expressive German shepherd his only companion, Neville is a hunter-gatherer in sunlight, hiding from the mutants at night in his Washington Square town house and methodically conducting experiments in his ceaseless quest to conquer the disease. The film's first half almost suggests that I Am Legend could be one of the finest movies of 2007. Director Francis Lawrence's extraordinary, computer-generated images of a decaying New York City reveal weeds growing through the cracks of familiar streets that are also overrun by deer and prowled by lions. It's impossible not to be fascinated by such a realistically altered cityscape, reverting to a natural environment, through which Smith moves with a weirdly enviable freedom, offset by his wariness over whatever is lurking in the dark of bank vaults and parking garages. Lawrence and screenwriters Mark Protosevich and Akiva Goldsman wisely build suspense by withholding images of the monsters until a peak scene of horror well into the story. It must be said, however, that the computer-enhanced creatures don't look half as interesting as they might have had the filmmakers adhered more to Matheson's vampire-nightmare vision. I Am Legend is ultimately noteworthy for Smith's remarkable performance as a man so lonely he talks to mannequins in the shops he frequents. The film's latter half goes too far in portraying Smith's Neville as a pitiable man with a messianic mission, but this lapse into bathos does nothing to take away from the visual and dramatic accomplishments of its first hour. --Tom Keogh
Product Description
I AM LEGEND - WIDESCREEN (DVD MOVIE)
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 An Okay Movie Made From a Very Scary Book March 19, 2010
Ken Douglas (Landlocked in Reno)
Although I have nothing but the greatest respect for Will Smith as an actor and believe he did an extraordinary job in this film, I found the movie wanting. I didn't mind the movie makers changing coasts and moving the action to New York, didn't mind them making Neville an Army Scientist, didn't mind them making the dog a bigger deal than he was in the book, didn't mind any of those changes.
I did wonder how a woman and a child could fight off the zombie-like monsters (they were vampires in the book, but I didn't mind that change so much either) when Neville who was in about a perfect a shape as a man can be couldn't do it. So she had some light, Neville had plenty of that. And why would she lead them to his home? He told her drive around till it was light. You'd think she'd have known about that, having survived so long and all.
But that aside, what I didn't feel from this movie that I got from the book I'd read so long ago was the profound sense of loneliness Neville felt. The shear terror I got from Matheson's words. That didn't come through for me. It was an okay movie, but it couldn't light a candle compared to the the book.
 Excellent BluRay Movie March 7, 2010
RD (Charlotte, NC USA)
Very Good Effects.
Excellent sound and images.
Will Smith when kill his dog for love and protect himself, is one of the best part of the movie.
For me almost excellent.
 I Am Legend February 26, 2010
Pama S. Lyons (Huntsville, Alabama)
This is a great movie. I was wanting to have a copy. The great thing about Amazon is that you can buy these movies for a fraction of the cost of a new one. They are just as good as buying a new one. Thanks Amazon.
Entertaining, Well-Done February 23, 2010
David S. Shearer (Lancaster, NH)
Really enjoyed this movie.
It is a relatively suspenseful movie that told an original story. Worth the watch if you are a fan of such movies (i.e. Signs)
First Half Better Than The Ending February 22, 2010
beck
First half of the movie really raises your expectations.
Great scenes of a decaying city. And Will Smith plays
his part to perfection.
Unfortunately, the dialogue with his german sheppard
is much better than the interaction between Will and
the female he meets toward the end of the movie.
This is another one to add to my "Last Man" Movies.
"Last Man on Earth", "28 Days Later", "Omega Man", etc.
All Good. None Great.
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