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Saturday, December 15, 2007
mused @ 1:59 AM
(there are no spoilers.)
i am legend opened in taiwan today, 11 days ahead of the christmas day opening in singapore. seeing the great hype and excellent trailer, i headed to the cinema with high expectations. we went to tianmu, the local expat area, where the cinemas have soundproof walls, unlike the usual taiwanese ones.
i am legend lives up to its billing, at least for half the movie, after which its collapses spectacularly into a heap of cliches. will smith plays the last surviving man on earth. what really comes through is his performance, it is hard to act when you are the only character on screen. but he brings out the solitude of robert neville, putting in a brilliant performance for the duration of the movie that is not crap. how he copes with his solitude and maintains his sanity is quite artfully portrayed acutally. the mental dams holding in his sanity are also underlined in the movie.
the movie's most thrilling parts consist of absolutely no visuals, just the effect of sound. and it is used to chilling effect. its amazing what the sense of hearing can do that the sense of sight can't.
however, sadly, the screenwriters for some unexplicable reason turned this great potential of a story into crap in the last half of the movie. i left the cinema will a bad taste in my mouth actually, which is a pity, because i thought will smith had put in a another stellar performance.
what if you were the last man on earth. what would you do? me? i would probably go to hugo boss and get myself a suit that i couldn't have done in my lifetime.
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please if anyone can hear me...anyone.Labels: life in general, sojourn
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