It is an accomplished science fiction/horror film based on Richard Matheson's 1954 novel set in a post-apocalyptic world.
Smith is superb as Robert Neville, a scientist who could possibly be the world's only survivor of a man-made virus.
In 2009 a genetically reengineered measles virus called Krippen Virus, originally created as a cancer vaccine, ends up wiping out most human life when it mutates into a lethal strain that is transmissible through the air.
Most of those not immediately killed are turned into nocturnal mutants who have degenerated into a primal state and are driven by hunger and blind rage as they turn and start killing those who are immune.
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New Yorker Neville is watched by the infected who have to avoid sunlight and hide underground and in hives, only able to roam at night.
Neville keeps himself sane by sticking to a strict daily exercise routine and searching for a cure to the virus in his basement laboratory.
And as well as harvesting corn and vegetables in a plot in Central Park, he spends his free time hitting golf balls on the wing of a fighter plane and waiting by the remains of the Brooklyn Bridge when the sun is at its highest for any survivors who he hopes have heard his daily radio broadcasts.
I Am Legend fails to be consistently good but it is still a polished and thought-provoking film that singles it out from the dross.
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