A simple disease/apocalypse/castaway movie that shallowly touches on a lot of different themes.
Superb performance from Will Smith and some beautiful visuals of a desolate New York. When these combine you have some of the best scenes in the movie. The computer graphics (CG) on the other hand does not blend in with either.
People in make-up may have made more convincing infected. The CG performances, though placed on unconvincing-looking CG performers, are actually quite good (particularly in the alternative ending).
The original ending is quite terrible and abrupt. The alternative ending, though not much better, does a slightly better job revisiting some lightly explored themes from the rest of the movie.
All in all a comparatively light disease movie (notice how its disease movie and not zombie movie) with some interesting original concepts, beautiful desolation scenes and terrible CG that ultimately fails to deliver a satisfactory ending.
Score: 3 mannequin Blockbuster clerks (out of 5)
A desolate dollop of dialogue:
"What the hell are you doing out here, Fred? Fred, if you're real, you better tell me right now!"
Mark Protosevich(screenplay), Akiva Goldsman(screenplay), Richard Matheson(novel), John William Corrington(1971 screenplay) & Joyce Hooper Corrington(1971 screenplay) are too many people to write a story about a man who's alone.
Francis Lawrence emptied out New York for his cameras.
Will Smith chatted with anything he could find (living or dead).
1 comment:
the ending was way too abrupt. Walked out of the theater to answer the phone when they were approaching his house, and walked back in to watch the credits roll.
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