"Oh my God!"
"God didn't do this Anna. We did!"
The facts: 2009: We found the viral cure for cancer ("Dr." Emma Thompson announces our destiny). 2012: 90% of the Earth's population became a frantic zombie (their voice were vivified by Mike Patton:))). New York's only (...) survivor – Robert Neville (Will Smith arggh..) – still believes that the terrible disease reversible. His aim is to survive as long as he finds the antidote.
I could talk about the film's cinematic premises (focusing only those which based on Richard Matheson's novel). The Last Man on Earth from '64 or The Omega Man from '71 (my childhood's most disturbing cinematic experience!) are different than this version of course. You might even say those are better, and you have probably right. But I'm quite sure that Robert Neville from 2007 doesn't care with his predecessors. Leave the useless comparison too, and watch this version as an easy entertainment. Even a film critic doesn't need to be a film critic all the time.
Easy movie – easy comments. I believe this is the best way to approach Francis Lawrence's (Constantine) dollar-factory film. You shouldn't be angry because of obvious mistakes (twilight vs. shadow), forced meanings (the hollywoodish philosophy of Bob Marley), terrible CGI (the zombies seemed like copies from The Mummy but hey, that was another century!) or weak jokes (the Shrek-scene, the dog on a treadmill and actually Will Smith himself).
And hmm, somebody should tell me why playing golf expresses the best the dead city's atmosphere?
It's not worth to ruin your easy amusement to search problems. You'll find a lot I bet. I felt similar after the Transformers movie: you know exactly what kind of stupidity is on the canvas but don't want to leave the cinema. You feel how Bob Marley sung thousand times in the movie: "It's gonna be alright"...
...and finally: if you liked the film (or if you didn't) check it out in a comic form!
7/10
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