|
|
List Price: $59.98Amazon.com's Price: $38.49 You Save: $21.49 (36%)Prices subject to change.
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: Blu-ray
EAN: 0883929024452
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: December 09, 2008
Sales Rank: 8028
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Will Smith stars in the third adaptation of Richard Matheson’s classic science-fiction novel about a lone human survivor in a post-apocalyptic world dominated by vampires. This new version somewhat alters Matheson’s central hook, i.e., the startling idea that an ordinary man, Robert Neville, spends his days roaming a desolated city and his nights in a house sealed off from longtime neighbors who have become bloodsucking fiends. In the new film, Smith’s Neville is a military scientist charged with finding a cure for a virus that turns people into crazed, hairless, flesh-eating zombies. Failing to complete his work in time--and after enduring a personal tragedy--Neville finds himself alone in Manhattan, his natural immunity to the virus keeping him alive. With an expressive German shepherd his only companion, Neville is a hunter-gatherer in sunlight, hiding from the mutants at night in his Washington Square town house and methodically conducting experiments in his ceaseless quest to conquer the disease.
The film’s first half almost suggests that I Am Legend could be one of the finest movies of 2007. Director Francis Lawrence’s extraordinary, computer-generated images of a decaying New York City reveal weeds growing through the cracks of familiar streets that are also overrun by deer and prowled by lions. It’s impossible not to be fascinated by such a realistically altered cityscape, reverting to a natural environment, through which Smith moves with a weirdly enviable freedom, offset by his wariness over whatever is lurking in the dark of bank vaults and parking garages. Lawrence and screenwriters Mark Protosevich and Akiva Goldsman wisely build suspense by withholding images of the monsters until a peak scene of horror well into the story. It must be said, however, that the computer-enhanced creatures don’t look half as interesting as they might have had the filmmakers adhered more to Matheson’s vampire-nightmare vision. I Am Legend is ultimately noteworthy for Smith’s remarkable performance as a man so lonely he talks to mannequins in the shops he frequents. The film’s latter half goes too far in portraying Smith’s Neville as a pitiable man with a messianic mission, but this lapse into bathos does nothing to take away from the visual and dramatic accomplishments of its first hour. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Nonsense...
How do you give the 'ultimate collector's' treatment to an 'ok' sci-fi flick. There's no big fan following for this film. It's easily the worst adaptation of the I AM LEGEND story. Last Man On Earth is the best one and even Omega Man is more fun to watch. If you're going to go collector's on this, why not tie into it the short brilliant story by Matheson...perhaps print a small version of the story as a booklet, detail the parts where the writers took from the novel, where they strayed off. Include ... Read More
Rating:  - For the Fans
While this movie may not be a fav of all, this pack is not for them. This is for the fans of the film that want more. WB delivered on what was asked. It is a great movie (with the alt ending).
Rating:  - You must be kidding..
A movie this limp and nonessential gets THIS type of "star" treatment? You can stuff a huge box with as many discs and extras as you want but it doesn't make the movie any better. I Am Legend is simply "meh" no matter what type of spiffy box art is designed for it. Definite PASS on this one.
|
|
![: I Am Legend (Ultimate Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41s2Nc%2BStpL._SL160_.jpg)