I Am Legend
I've been meaning to write this for a couple weeks now. And I keep putting it off. And then I think of new complaints. And then go to write and put it off again. But now it is officially time to just list my complaints (and maybe a couple good things) about the movie. Oh and there will be plenty of "spoilers" if you can call them that.
1 - Why does the government blow up the bridges to Manhattan and impose a deadline for evacuation if they are just checking everyone and taking them out by helicopter anyway? Also, while it is nice and showy and dramatic, isn't there a better way to take out the bridges other than fly by missiles?
2 - If they destroyed all the ways to get to Manhattan, how do the pair of survivors who are making their way to Vermont get to and from the island so easily?
3 - Do you seriously expect me to believe that this virus that has killed and/or mutated about 99.9% of the population is stopped by the "cold air in the mountains of Vermont"? I've been to Vermont and gone skiing. And yes it does get cold there (especially in the high altitudes of the mountains in the winter), but I've seen colder. And also the "camp" that they arrive at in the end isn't exactly in the mountains. If the weather there is all that it takes to stop the virus, then all of Upstate NY and Canada would have been fine.
4 - Why do they introduce a clearly interesting plot avenue that they can go down (Zombie-Vampires might have social structure, order and so "human" emotion still), and then dismiss it all in one fell swoop.
5 - Stop having the Uber-Zombie-Vampire! Am I really supposed to believe that a highly trained Marine would miss a 6'4" Zombie-Vampire from less than three feet away with an entire clip of an assault riffle? Seriously? That is even harder to swallow than 6 billion people dying from a virus in the course of like 2 years.
6 - Why do almost all of the Zombie-Vampires look exactly like John Malkovich? Even the female ones look eerily similar. Creepy. (Note: This is one of the few positive things I can say about the film).
So there were lots of problems. And very few good things. I haven't seen the first two incarnations of this book, but I can almost guarantee that they were better.
RATING: See the originals and skip this one, and then let me know how the original ones were.