The second screen adaptation of Richard Matheson’s haunting novel ‘I Am Legend’ stars Heston as the last man on Earth (or so he believes) after a plague turns the populace into night-dwelling albino vampires.

| Aug 19, 2023

Filmmaker Boris Sagal, working from a script by John William and Joyce H. Corrington, delivers an erratically-paced yet generally entertaining sci-fi endeavor that benefits from Heston's commanding, ingratiating performance...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 11, 2020

The film s a pretty terrible direct translation of what is one of the easiest-to-adapt-to-screen books I've ever read. But it doesn't want to be the novel. It has something else on its mind.

| Dec 16, 2019

Unsatisfying sci-fi thriller, though it's not Charlton Heston's fault

| Original Score: C | Aug 28, 2011

In adapting Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend, the film loses the original's quiet paranoia and rethink of the vampire theme, but it has quite a lot of gritty flair.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 29, 2008

Despite not having aged particularly well, the opening sections of this sci-fi allegory remain potent, although the rest of its apocalyptic storyline is decidedly leaden.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 29, 2008

...not an awful film, just a remarkably dull one.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 22, 2007

A breezy film about the death of mankind in a way that only the '70s could have provided.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 19, 2007

Not bad, but far from a classic.

| Dec 10, 2007

An extremely literate science-fiction drama.

| Sep 19, 2007

Another misfired adaptation of Richard Matheson's fine science fiction novel I Am Legend.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 19, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 12, 2007

Averagely competent exercise in comic strip sci-fi.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 10, 2005

Despite being baked in early '70s cheese, The Omega Man is easily the most entertaining film version of Richard Matheson's sci-fi novel, I Am Legend

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 9, 2005

Ainda eficaz, mais de 30 anos depois de seu lanamento.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 3, 2005

Lacks the power and cleverness of the Matheson book, but worth viewing just for Heston's sake.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 11, 2005

Peppered with some sharp, even amusing dialogue, the story temporarily shelves the heavy allegory and slips into good, slam-bang suspense. But it doesn't last.

| May 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 19, 2004

Lights on! Not bad sci-fi with Heston in hiding.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 25, 2004