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I AM LEGEND

Roadshow Home Entertainment / Region 4 / Released May 2008

Featuring Will Smith, Alice Braga, Dash Mihok

Will Smith proves once again what a charismatic leading man he is as US Army virologist Robert Neville. It's 2012 and the world is in the grip of a global plague (created by a man made virus) that over the course of three years has wiped out 90% of the Earth's population and has left the remaining survivors in a zombie-vampire like state.

Convinced he is the last uninfected person in New York, Neville faces a desperate race to stay one step ahead of the mutants and at the same time try and come up with a cure. Scary, thrilling, fast paced and as exciting as all get out I Am Legend is classic entertainment.

With his character on screen for pretty much every frame of the movie Will Smith is superb as the man whose life has been ripped apart (his wife and daughter were amongst the earliest casualties), his attempts to regain a little normality in his life, whether it be talking to store manniquins or watching clips of old tv shows really bring the lonliness home.

Richard Matheson's 1954 scifi classic I Am Legend is a hugely influential novel that, with this new Will Smith epic, has been given the cinematic sheen it deserves. An influence on everyone from Stephen King to brit homage 28 Days, Matheson's novel was the first to feature "vampire apocolypse" scenario and had been filmed before in 1964 as The Last Man on Earth and again in 1971 as The Omega Man with Charlton Heston of all people in the lead.

Extras on the two disc edition include a different cut of the movie (running four minutes longer) with an alternate ending, four animated comics, Death as A Gift, Isolation, Sacrificing the Few for the Many and Shelter; There is also ample material to be explored via dvd rom offering up lots of background info to the genesis of the movie.

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