... focuses on the visceral experience of roaming an empty New York City, a metropolitan ghost town slowly being reclaimed by foliage and wildlife (ostensibly escaped from the zoo and running wild through the abandoned streets).

| Apr 6, 2024

Will Smith is outstanding in this gripping apocalyptic tale.

| Oct 29, 2021

Amazingly, [Will Smith] not only keeps it credible, he pulls it off with aplomb.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 29, 2021

A lot has been left to the imagination, especially during the adaptation of the novel, from which the film deviates so greatly that taking its title was far from necessary.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 24, 2020

A frightening, confronting and totally immersive action picture.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2020

The screenplay from previous Oscar-winner Akiva Goldsman and Mark Protosevich is a disappointingly convoluted script that lacks clarity and purpose.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 11, 2020

Nothing is scarier than Francis Lawrence's direction. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 17, 2019

Smith is an appealing screen presence, but the film needs more than just that to stay alive.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 5, 2019

...the film's final act turn towards quick, out of nowhere resolutions, hokey attempts at evocations of faith, and a rapid increase of sentimental slop does much to undercut "I Am Legend"'s excellent, forlorn first half.

| Nov 16, 2017

If you ignore its flaws, I am Legend can be enjoyed as the perfect brainless Boxing Day blockbuster - but it is essentially a leftover festive turkey.

| Oct 25, 2017

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 18, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

It's a better-than-average blockbuster, which sweeps around some large ideas and interesting themes, but never delves for long enough to make this film a true classic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2011

Inevitably, ideas give way to special-effects

| Aug 27, 2009

I Am Legend is three film genres for the price of one: Science Fiction, Action, and Horror, and while it's no classic in any one arena it remains edgy fun.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 30, 2009

This is no graphic shoot-'em-up but an intelligent, if sometimes sentimental, exploration of human decency and responsibility that ponders the limits of rationality and faith.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 23, 2009

There are some good points, but there are too many ineffectual aspects that keep I Am Legend from being the sophisticated film it was clearly meant to be.

| Jan 27, 2009

Smith turns in a terrific performance, nailing Neville's angst while allowing room for humor.

Full Review | Oct 18, 2008

Smith still manages to find something touching and occasionally even tragic in the character.

| Oct 18, 2008

For everything that is good about it, though, I Am Legend struggles against two primary problems.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 18, 2008