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

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

Full Review | Oct 18, 2008

I wouldn't dream of giving away the ending, but it's not likely to satisfy either the action crowd or Matheson fans.

| Mar 31, 2008

It is absolutely gripping in its vision of how lonely it would be to be the last man on Earth. It's absolutely dull in almost every other respect.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2008

I Am Legend is a grenade that goes off when least expected. It has more horror than heart, but it is never boring.

Full Review | Jan 4, 2008

So often, sci-fi is overproduced, but I Am Legend doesn't look like a CGI extravaganza. It looks like an edgy suspense movie shot on the fly in New York City after the fall. And because of that, it's all the more effective.

| Jan 4, 2008

Smith is a good deal better than Arnold might have been, and the dog is wonderful. Watch the first hour and see something a bit special.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2007

Bold, and successfully maintains suspense.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2007

first-time feature director Francis Lawrence deserves an ovation for his scene-setting and early scare count.

| Dec 28, 2007

What started out so promisingly, a companion piece of sorts to Children of Men, disappears in a frenzy of screaming, head-banging, bloodiness - followed by totally unconvincing redemption.

| Dec 28, 2007

There is something a bit thin about the story, and just as in 28 Days Later, I find that digital, rage-filled zombies halve in dramatic interest with every second that passes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2007

The depiction of the eerily overgrown city is one of the first genuine and unobtrusive testaments to the groundbreaking power of computer-generated effects in years.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2007

You're left gawping at $100 million-worth of eye-popping futuristic B-movie.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Dec 28, 2007

While the sun shines, it's a four-star thriller with a superb turn from Smith. When the moon rises, it's a two-star horror cartoon with some of the worst FX we've seen all year. So, really, it has to average out at...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 26, 2007

I Am Legend sees Smith deliver a surprisingly moving performance as he wanders empty New York streets going slowly ga-ga.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 18, 2007

Will Smith is in prime form.

Full Review | Dec 17, 2007

The herky-jerky script, by Mark Protosevich and Akiva Goldsman, favors vignettes and set pieces over dramatic development, and those damned zombies are everywhere, overwhelming the proceedings with their slobbering and howling.

| Dec 14, 2007

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.

Full Review | Dec 14, 2007