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Ryan Vincent http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2008/03/film-dvd-review-i-am-legend-2007/ http://www.filmstalker.co.uk/archives/2008/01/i_am_legend.html

Vince Simmons [|__http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/i-am-legend-2007__] [|__http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Review-I-human-Will-Smith-plays-last-man-3232797.php__]

Ebert, Roger. “I Am Legend” rogerebert. Ebert Digital LLC, n.d. Web. 13 Dec. 2007.

In Roger Ebert’s review of the movie “I Am Legend” he explains what he and others thought of the movie. First he talks about the special effects in the movie, he explains how they work well at the start to show how Manhattan would be if it were deserted. He describes the later special effects by saying “… they just about compensate for some later special effects that are dicey.” (Ebert 1) Ebert then explains the movie plot. He explains how Robert Neville is supposedly the only survivor of a deadly virus outbreak. He explains his daily routine and how he survives. He explains that Neville’s only friend is his dog Sam. He also explains how Neville is a scientist looking for a cure for the virus. Ebert says that the movie was adapted from a 1954 sci-fi novel by Richard Matheson. He explains that it is quite a twist from the original novel. He then goes to question the logic behind the movie. Robert Neville finds a crack in his sanity and attempts what should be seen as a suicide attempt; he gets saved by a lady named Anna and a little boy. Ebert doesn’t seem to make sense out of how he was saved, or how she got to Manhattan which was supposed to be quarantined. He then questions how effective the computerized zombies were to the movie. He then goes on about how the movie does have some very memorable scenes. He closes by saying “The movie works well while it's running, although it raises questions that later only mutate in our minds.” (Ebert 1)

Addiego, Walter. “I, human - Will Smith plays last man standing in ‘I Am Legend’” SFGate. Hearst Communications, Inc. 14 Dec. 2007. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.

In Walter Addiego’s review of the movie I Am Legend, called “I, human - Will Smith plays last man standing in ‘I Am Legend’”, he explains the movie as the third remake of Richard Matheson’s novel “I Am Legend”, and how it strongly delivers Industrial-strength special effects in the story of one man’s journey through life in post-apocalyptic New York city, surrounded by bloodthirsty monsters (Addiego 1). Robert Neville, the main character in the movie, is played by Will Smith, who is well known for his work with sci-fi type films. Neville is the only human left on the island of Manhattan, and he is led to think he is one of, if not the only, human left on Earth. Although he is the only human on the island, he is also accompanied by his dog, several other wild animals, and the bloodthirsty mutants that were created of the human race after the virus struck the world. Addiego summarized Neville’s time usage in several broad activities including: experimenting on mutants, talking to his dog, hitting golf balls, hunting and sending SOS messages to any other survivors of the virus, and trying to recall his old life. The author also expressed his interest in the quality of the portrayal of New York City in the film, although he was slightly less than impressed with how average and basic the mutants looked on screen during the movie. Within the summary, the author criticized the conclusion considering every remake of this novel has been portrayed with a different ending. He called the ending of ‘I Am Legend’, an “out-of-the-blue affair” and “the least satisfying of the three” because of its optimistic ending and a very sudden end to the problems within the movie. Not only did Addiego criticize the storyline of the film itself, but he also claimed that the director, Francis Lawrence, spent too much money on the film, and should have made the monsters more realistic and more spectacular in comparison to the rest of the film (Addiego 1).