Guest Blogger: Garrett A1

I am Legend is a very Motivating movie that gives you tingles every time you watch it. This movie takes place in the future modern world and everyone has perished because of a plague, except for one. The person left behind is Robert Neville played by Will Smith and takes place in New York City. He struggles for a long time trying to find a cure to a sickness that infects you from the “perished people” that are already infected. The main Actors and Actresses are Robert Neville (Will Smith), Marley Neville (Willow Smith), and Salli Richardson (Zoe Neville). This is the family in the film, also the main characters that we see throughout the entire movie. Their performances were very well played out, and Will Smith is my favorite current actor at the moment. He has a really good ability to be serious and also funny when the time is needed, which was great for this movie. The Characters in this film all had a common goal before they got infected, which was to stay alive, and strive in their town. Some of their motivations were to be safe and help find a cure, which was solely left up to Robert Neville (Will Smith). The overall theme of this movie that I thought would apply would be teamwork. You can tell that Robert Neville (Will Smith) needed help. In the beginning with his family he had to protect them and work together to keep them safe. Once he knew that they were safe he could go on his quest to fight off the “zombies” and find a cure. Without the cure he could not help his family, and I’ll leave the rest for you to find out. I Agree with the critics because some said they wanted more from this particular director and I knew what he meant. There was really no background information besides him waking up and all of a sudden New York City was just gone and taken over. Others said it should be a three hour thriller sci-fi film, but packed into 1.5 hours was just not enough. Although, I disagreed with other sites because they were just bashing it for its special effects and not giving it a chance for a hard role to fill in that area with life-like beings. This film is totally worth a watch. It has action, drama, sci-fi, and thriller all combined, which is likeable to almost all tastes in Movies. This will make you think about what life will really be like in the future, or could this even happen, you’ll have to find out.