So, here we have jaw-dropping scenes of daytime New York now eerily deserted (apart from excitable deer herds and the odd thrilling lion) after a man-made virus has turned every human, except one A-list star, into an angry, super-speedy CGI mutant.
Hmm. Sound a touch familiar? Yet, this 28 Days Later scenario is given an alarming (to non-religious viewers, anyway) messianic subtext as optimistic, muscle-bound, Shrek-loving survivor Dr Robert Neville (eternally loveable Will Smith) finally twigs that science alone cannot smite the plague of distractingly crappy digitised undead a-nibbling at his laboratory door.
While the tension mounts superbly, the script continues on its perverse suicide mission, with Smith never more heroic than when delivering the line: 'Bob Marley believed you could cure racism by injecting music into people.' Legendary, in its own way...
I Am Legend
Cert: 15
