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I’m back right now after a night out in Shepherd’s Bush which ended with half a roasted chicken for dinner, which is definitely a good way to end a nice Saturday.
Anyway, not the point, the real point is that I was out with a couple of house-mates to watch I Am Legend. First of all, before all the comments (not many in fact), a couple of things you need to know about me:

• I love science-fiction and the apocalyptic branch of it,
• I’m a fan of Will Smith since the times of Indipendence Day and Bad Boys

Now, this said, the movie is good.
It’s not a masterpiece, and it wasn’t probably meant to be one, but it’s 158 minutes of good fun and a good two or three jumps on the chair too, if you know what I mean ;)
Will Smith is just superb, and for most of the movie is basically acting all alone, with just a dog to share the scene with, which I’m sure must have not be really easy. The setting is quite amazing, and the loneliness of his character is well portraied in how the abandoned New York is pictured out; I’ve actually heard that to shot the movie they basically closed half of downtown N.Y. to everyone… let me tell you I’m not surprised to know that the people living (& working) there were quite upset with that. But hey, the result is quite nice.
So what: I haven’t read the book yet (it’s in my Amazon.co.uk wishlist waiting its call…) so I can’t tell how the transposition had been made from paper to screen. I’m usually more a book fan than movie in this kind of situations, so I’ll probably end up liking the book more when I’ll read it. For now the movie is a product good enough to be suggested to friends.
If you haven’t done it yet, go and watch it! :D