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37 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Village VoiceVillage VoiceIn what has been a pretty remarkable career up to now, it's this performance that fully affirms Smith as one of the great leading men of his generation.
- 80New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinThe first two thirds and change of I Am Legend is terrific mindless fun: crackerjack action with gnashing vampires barely glimpsed (and scarier for that) and how’d-they-do-that New York locations that retroactively justify the traffic jams.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanIn spirit, I Am Legend is caught in some abstractly doom-laden sci-fi past. For what it is, though, the film is well-done, a case of suspenseful competence trumping questionable relevance.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliAs Tom Hanks did in "Cast Away," Will Smith pulls off this half-insane role perfectly.
- 75Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanCharlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanThe first two-thirds are classic science fiction, technologically plausible and emotionally resonant. It's only when God enters the picture that things slide downhill.
- 75Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsSmith carries it, even after the story loses its nerve. This film is the opposite of “Transformers”: It’s all about the unsettling silence, not the noise.
- 75The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonThe A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonWhile I Am Legend is reasonably absorbing, it can be difficult to focus on the film that actually made it to the screen, instead of the many versions that didn't.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttSmith, sporting a newly buffed physique, delivers an extraordinary performance as a man slowly coming unglued under the strain of no human contact and a constantly alternating role of hunter and prey.
- 70VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyRemarkably 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.
- 30Austin ChronicleAustin ChronicleUnfortunately, after those first 10 minutes it’s all downhill for I Am Legend, as the film descends into a monster-movie malaise starring a horde of balding CGI monsters that look like refugees from a video game and that will scare absolutely no one, save those who worry that green-screening is ruining the movies.