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Release Date:
14 December 2007 (USA)
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Tagline:
The last man on earth is not alone more
Plot:
Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure. full summary | full synopsis
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7 wins
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17 nominations
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Gut-wrenching movie full of adventure and heart
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Will Smith | ... | Robert Neville | |
| Alice Braga | ... | Anna | |
| Charlie Tahan | ... | Ethan | |
| Salli Richardson-Whitfield | ... | Zoe (as Salli Richardson) | |
| Willow Smith | ... | Marley | |
| Darrell Foster | ... | Mike - Military Escort | |
| April Grace | ... | TV Personality | |
| Dash Mihok | ... | Alpha Male | |
| Joanna Numata | ... | Alpha Female | |
| Abbey | ... | Sam | |
| Kona | ... | Sam | |
| Samuel Glen | ... | Military Driver - Jay | |
| James Michael McCauley | ... | Male Evacuee (as James McCauley) | |
| Marin Ireland | ... | Woman Evacuee | |
| Pedro Mojica | ... | Sergeant |
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Also Known As:
I Am Legend: The IMAX Experience (USA) (IMAX version)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence.
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Runtime:
101 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
South Korea:12 |
Ireland:15A |
Finland:K-15 |
UK:15 |
Malaysia:U |
Singapore:PG |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) |
Hong Kong:IIB |
Taiwan:PG-12 |
France:Unrated |
Australia:M |
Norway:15 |
Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB) |
Brazil:14 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Argentina:16 |
Czech Republic:12 |
Slovakia:12 |
USA:PG-13 (certificate #43988) |
Denmark:11 |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) |
Sweden:15 |
Germany:16 |
Australia:MA (DVD) |
New Zealand:M |
Venezuela:PG-13 |
Peru:14 |
Netherlands:12 |
South Africa:13V |
Austria:14 |
Japan:U |
India:A (cinema release) |
Iceland:14
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While doing a press conference in Japan for the release of the movie, Will Smith accidentally revealed the ending to a collection of entertainment reporters. Warner Brothers asked the reporters and all those present to withhold the ending and the reporters all obliged without any payoff or consideration.
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Goofs:
Factual errors: When Neville fires his gun (an M4A1 carbine) at the dark seeker in the house and runs out of ammo, the weapon can be heard clicking several times. An M4A1 will not click when the magazine runs empty. The bolt carrier group will lock to the rear holding the hammer down; pulling the trigger has no further effect.
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TV Personality: The world of medicine has seen its share of miracle cures, from the polio vaccine to heart transplants. But all past achievements may pale in comparison to the work of Dr. Alice Krippin. Thank you so much for joining us this morning.
Dr. Alice Krippin: Not at all.
TV Personality: So, Dr. Krippin, give it to me in a nutshell.
Dr. Alice Krippin: Well, the premise is quite simple - um, take something designed by nature and reprogram it to make it work for the body rather than against it.
TV Personality: You're talking about a virus?
Dr. Alice Krippin: Indeed, yes. In this case the measles, um, virus which has been engineered at a genetic level to be helpful rather than harmful. Um, I find the best way to describe it is if you can... if you can imagine your body as a highway, and you picture the virus as a very fast car, um, being driven by a very bad man. Imagine the damage that car can cause. Then if you replace that man with a cop... the picture changes. And that's essentially what we've done.
TV Personality: And how many people have you treated so far?
Dr. Alice Krippin: Well, we've had ten thousand and nine clinical trials in humans so far.
TV Personality: And how many are cancer-free?
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TV Personality: The world of medicine has seen its share of miracle cures, from the polio vaccine to heart transplants. But all past achievements may pale in comparison to the work of Dr. Alice Krippin. Thank you so much for joining us this morning.
Dr. Alice Krippin: Not at all.
TV Personality: So, Dr. Krippin, give it to me in a nutshell.
Dr. Alice Krippin: Well, the premise is quite simple - um, take something designed by nature and reprogram it to make it work for the body rather than against it.
TV Personality: You're talking about a virus?
Dr. Alice Krippin: Indeed, yes. In this case the measles, um, virus which has been engineered at a genetic level to be helpful rather than harmful. Um, I find the best way to describe it is if you can... if you can imagine your body as a highway, and you picture the virus as a very fast car, um, being driven by a very bad man. Imagine the damage that car can cause. Then if you replace that man with a cop... the picture changes. And that's essentially what we've done.
TV Personality: And how many people have you treated so far?
Dr. Alice Krippin: Well, we've had ten thousand and nine clinical trials in humans so far.
TV Personality: And how many are cancer-free?
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Movie Connections:
References Strangers on a Train (1951)
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Soundtrack:
Three Little Birds
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I just saw this movie today, the day it opened here. And was deeply, deeply moved.
I've got to start with the scenes of a deserted New York City post-apocalypse. These were so very, very moving; and very, very convincing. The clips in the trailers for the movie were good, but you really have to see the full panoply of close-up shots, distance shots, etc to really appreciate the sheer scale of what this movie is depicting. There's something of On the Beach and Resident Evil and of any number of disaster movies and zombie movies here. But none of them do justice to the New York depicted here. This is a New York City we see large-scale and micro-scale in order to show us the environment in which the main character is acting.
And Will Smith is simply brilliant as the sole survivor, Robert Neville. Will delivers movingly and convincingly on a script that really focuses on giving us a picture of "what it would be like" ... to be the last man on earth, living off the land in NYC. This is the real strength of this movie: there's really not a lot of blood or gore or zombie scenes at all. Yet I was riveted as Robert goes through his "typical days" in NYC. Every moment was full of pathos and full of menace, too. And occasionally we got some relief from Smith's trademark humor that blended seamlessly with the rest of his performance to give us "what it would be like" with a powerful delivery that just leaves me almost breathless.
There's an effective use of flashbacks that partly tell us the story of how we got to where we're at in this grim New York City; and the flashbacks also serve to give us an overwhelming contrast between Life Before and Life After the apocalyptic disaster wiped out the city. Yet use of flashback was sparing, which I found all the more effective.
Cinematography was excellent throughout, the storyline and script are brilliant, the use of a dog, Samantha, as a key actor was perfect to show us both Robert as companion and Robert as lonely, isolated survivor.
I won't give away the ending, but think it was satisfying as far as it goes, but not nearly as appealing, from my angle, as the foregoing material. That brings up my one complaint: the title. By the end of the movie, we have some sense of the meaning of the title. Yet it still seems to me to feel cheesy and really unworthy of the movie.
But that's a minor plaint. If you haven't seen this movie, and would enjoy seeing a really powerful story about a survivor in post-apocalypse New York City, hey, go check out this flick. It's really worth it.