Will Smith is great at playing Will Smith, just as Tom Cruise is great at playing Tom Cruise. The Fresh Prince stars in this broadly advertised New Year’s blockbuster, a vampire movie that isn’t really a vampire movie. As far as survival horror goes, 30 Days Of Night was much better. In fact, most survival horror movies are better than this. The plot revolves around Will Smith being the downfall and saviour of humankind, then when the going gets tough, the film finishes with liberal sprinklings (or torrential downfalls) of Deus Ex Machina.
- where did the deer and lions come from? (they blew up the bridges to Manhattan Island at the start)
- how come there’s no rabid deer? If the dark seekers are all starving, how come they haven’t eaten all the deer? (Or do the deer have impregnable fortresses to hide in every night too?)
- the scene at the end where the serum has, actually miraculously worked, and the woman has a butterfly on her neck - it really is God’s plan after all - and they just happen to be attacked by dark seekers that very night - and lucky he had the foresight to build a blast proof den that can’t be unlocked from the outside, or won’t let the smoke in and cause them to suffocate, etc. etc.
- the pier scene where she turned up “just in time” after 1000 days of solitude (God’s plan again!) - how exactly did she manage to stave off the horde of hungry dark seekers and get Will out of his airbagged, seatbelted, upside-down vehicle into her car when he was unconscious? (I guess he doesn’t weigh much!)
- pretty amazing how as well as being a soldier and a cancer-cure-finding scientist, Will also has the engineering skills to fit huge blast doors to his windows 3 stories up (and presumably outfit a cutting edge laboratory with blast proof glass sliding doors, unless that was already built into his house, just in case his cure for cancer turned the entire world into rabid zombies!)
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1 Tim Verkerk // Jan 4, 2008 at 5:32 am
I wholeheartedly agree. With the story this movie had, or the lack thereof, you would be forgiven for thinking this movie was a production of a mindless adrenaline junkie dark seeker. Pure crap. Speaking of which if those zombies should be crapping everywhere. Didn’t see one peice of excrement anywhere in that hive. Also how come places like that video store weren’t ravaged by crazed zombies. This movie has less substance than candy floss. There ends my moaning. I feel better now
2 Jimmy Bob // Jan 12, 2008 at 5:22 am
Did the virus give the zombies super human strength? With the ability to scramble up 3 storey houses and bash their way through smash proof glass with their heads?
How did the zombies last so long? shouldn’t they have all starved to death long before that 3 year period was up? Where did they get all the food to keep so many alive? What the hell were they eating? Obviously not each other.
This was so much like 28 Days Later but not even close to being as good.
3 Tom Kidney // Jan 12, 2008 at 5:06 pm
So glad I found someone who agrees about that this film is pure unexplained dross, My wife complains when I pick holes in films and told me not to with this, I couldn’t stop her picking holes the whole way home from the cinema (see above comments), it maybe could have been a good film if all was explained, but there was so much that wasnt the film that told the full story would need to be 8 hours long, Will Smith was pretty good, the dog was outstanding, the director must be on Acid to have released this thinking “Yep, this comes together well” AVOID 3/10
4 Martin Gifford // Feb 16, 2008 at 7:03 am
Yep, crap.
Plot holes at every key point. Why not fortify your place better? Why not have guns all over the place? Why throw yourself to the zombies after your dog dies, when you were supposed to be trying to save the world? Why run into SuperZombie infested dark buildings just for a dog? Why wouldn’t the dog obey - is it unafraid of packs of SuperZombies? It’s endless.
How about the numerous unbelieveable “just in the knick of time” saves? What? Did an 8 year old write this?
Ridiculous CGI SuperZombies? Why? It seemed that this movie was supposed to be something we would empathise with i.e. “What would it be like to be the last person in the world?” That was the selling point, but then came the SuperZombies. Ugh.
But what bugs me is the high ratings at imdb. I guess the studios must sneak in there and give movies 10/10 to get them off to a good start. It was 7.2 today. In a year it will be 5.
Trash. Yeah, 3/10.
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