I Am Legend, 12/5.

I Am Legend's going to be a big hit, predicts the New York Post's Lou Lumenick: "It's full of 'wow' moments, beginning with Will Smith - as a medical researcher who is apparently the sole survivor of an epidemic that has either killed everyone else or turned them into zombies - hunting deer in a waist-high weeds in Times Square and Madison Square Park."

Updated through 12/7.

Blogging for Commentary, Kyle Smith finds a "surprising subtext about how religion and science can co-exist. Call this the first movie of the post-stem cell-debate era." Via Peter Chattaway.

Related online viewing from the Broken Saints team: Awakening and Isolation.

Lou Luminick points to Logan Hill's piece in New York on the effects that got all these weeds in downtown NYC. Nice photos.

Update, 12/6: Carrie Rickey looks back on previous "three-makes."

Updates, 12/7: Gill Pringle profiles Smith for the Independent.

"Remarkably eerie yet annoyingly larded with cheap horror-film shock effects, I Am Legend stands as an effective but also irksome adaptation of Richard Matheson's classic 1954 sci-fi novel," writes Variety's Todd McCarthy. "In what is to a considerable extent a solo turn as the last healthy human on a post-plague planet Earth, Will Smith strongly holds the screen in a one-man Alamo besieged by marauding cannibals."

Posted by dwhudson at December 5, 2007 1:28 PM