Movie Review: I Am Legend

Rating: 4.0 out of 10 (original)
Rating: 7.0 out of 10 (alternate version/ending)

Review: The first half of the movie is great. It's about the last guy on Earth after some sort of virus thing has "killed" off the rest of the population (or turned them into vampire/zombies). It has some good action sequences. And it has a bit of foreshadowing to tell the audience that there is more going on than they realize. The problem is that the last half of the movie pretends like the whole plot development and foreshadowing stuff didn't matter. And the ending is just stupid. It makes you mad at the movie. Why go through all of the work of setting up an interesting plot line and ending if you are just going to throw it away for a stupid ending? Well, it turns out that there are two possible ending on the Blu-Ray disk (and possibly the DVD as well). I'm not sure what the back-story on the "alternate version" is, but it is a much better movie. Watch this version, only. The plot development and the foreshadowing make much more sense in this version and the ending is not idiotic. So, in summary, the plot is not as good as the book version, but if you watch the "alternate version", at least you won't end up hating this movie.