MOVIE REVIEW: " I AM LEGEND"
MOVIE REVIEW: "I AM LEGEND"
art and review by Phillip Seahorn
Starring:
Will Smith, Alice Braga, Dash Mihok, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Charlie Tahan
Directed by:
Francis Lawrence
Produced by:
Erwin Stoff, Michael Tadross, Dana Goldberg
I went to see this movie at Ronnie's yesterday ( a true hidden gem).
I had to digest this movie for a couple of days, as it is a mixed bag.
Will Smith should be up for a Acadamy Award.His performance was excellent as a man descending into madness from extreme loneliness and depression, and severe stress from fighting off canabalistic creatures hell bent on eating him and his dog.
But this movie is not a sci fi action flick, or a survivalist flick, or a gory horror (think "Alien") type of movie.Hollywood actually tried to market this movie as ALL THREE.
However, this movie is not at all any of these, but a psychological study in the nature of the need for humans to have companionship.
Thsi movie explores this, much as the original novel from which this movie is taken from does.
But it is the technical aspects of this film that fall short.
First off, there were just too damned many closeups of Smith's face.Digital movies should not have a lot of closeups.I really don't care to see the color of a actor's nose hairs.
Second of all, the CGI.
It looked just like a fucking video game.
A BAD VIDEO GAME.
There is one scene in the the third act in which you could SWEAR you were watching a demo for a video game.
And what the fuck is up with using Smith's real kids in his movies?Talk about fucking ego!
Overall, not a bad movie, but it could have been MUCH better if they had went for the horror action mix.
But that would not have allowed the Oscar calibre performance of Smith as a lonely man going insane.
THE SEAHORN MOVIEMETER: "C" for the flick,"A+" for the acting
posted by PHILLIP SEAHORN @ 5:37 PM
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