MATTHEW McNUTT

So maybe I’m way behind the times, but I finally saw “I am legend.”  It took me a couple days – I watched it while exercising.  : )  I really enjoyed it – which isn’t surprising since I’m kind of a sci-fi geek and a Will Smith fan.  So while I didn’t think it was spectacular or anything like that, it kept me entertained and involved.

SPOILER ALERT!

Here’s where I was frustrated – I felt like they missed out on a lot of opportunities to make it a deeper, better film.  For example, the Dark Seekers.  The writers hinted that they were following a leader, getting smarter, changing their behavior – but they only hinted at it instead of really having fun with it.  I was excited that it seemed like something was building that didn’t end up happening.

The appearance of the woman and the child almost seemed too far fetched to me.  I honestly thought Smith’s character snapped after his dog died and he was imagining them.  It just seemed to convenient, and yes, they tried to explain it as God working … but it felt more like an easy explanation than something they actually believed (which would have been cool).

Maybe I just wasn’t happy about Smith dying in the end seconds after realizing he had discovered a cure, or the neat and tidy ending of finding the human sanctuary.  I guess it would have been more powerful to discover the cure only to see it lost because the Dark Seekers were destroying everything.  I’m not sure what I’m trying to say, only that the ending seemed to simple and neat for a movie that could have gone deeper.

All that being said, I really enjoyed it and that’s just nitpicks from a sci-fi nerd wishing for a little more.