Movie Review: I Am Legend

 An apocalyptic New York with Doctor Robert Neville (Will Smith) trying to find a cure for a devastating virus that has killed most of the people, left others as man eating zombies and as far as he knows he is the only one with immunity.  He does have a dog, and mannequins he communicates with. We assume his wife and daughter (Salli Richardson-Whitfield and Willow Smith) do not get away, because in a flash back it appears they die in a helicopter crash. 

He keeps looking for a cure, and captures a zombie for a human test.  He feels he has failed in his studies, but the zombie does not die.

The zombies are allergic to sun light, so he is able to travel during the day at will, but at night it is zombie time.  Zombies have sharp teeth and big mouths, and are very gruesome.  His dog travels with him, but becomes infected when saving Neville from rabid dogs.  The dog becomes infected and he has to put him down.  Very emotional scene.  Turns out he wants to die and take as many zombies with him as he can.  However he is saved.  There is a woman, Anna (Alice Braga) and her son, Ethan (Charlie Tahan) who likewise are not infected, who save him.  They get him to his compound, but the zombies now know where he lives.  They attack with a vengeance, and they retreat to the basement, his lab.  The zombie he had experimented on is still breathing in the lab, and it looks like she has been cured.  Can the cure be given to people, or will the zombies kill everyone?  

***The New Mutants (2020)

 I think this is the least enjoyed of the mutant franchise; as manifested by its poor showing at the box office.  The plot is not very much like the other movies in this franchise.  Dani Moonstar wakes up one morning in a locked facility, her hands cuffed to the wall.  Dr. Reyes releases her and then she is introduced to four other residents.  They all have special mutant skills, but all have their own demons.  Rahne is a werewolf type being, Illyana can go across dimension and controls a magical sword and dragon, Sam has super speed and project himself into the air, Roberto can control solar energy, which makes him very, very hot at times.  The skill of Dani is not yet defined.  However after she arrives everyone is having lifelike dreams.  They in fact are real dreams of their worst fear or experience.  Dr. Reyes appears to be the only staff on site.  She too has a power to manipulate energy to make protective fields around herself or others.  She has put such a force field around the school so no one can escape.  

Finally Dr. Reyes gets the order to put Dani down as the decide there is no way to control her power.  this is when all havoc breaks loss.

This movie is much more like a horror movie than an action movie like the other X-Men movie.  And of course the elephant in the room is the first openly gay relationship in an X-Men movie.  This is likely why it did so poorly at the box office; This and bring released during COVID.

	Maisie Williams	...	Rahne Sinclair
	Anya Taylor-Joy	...	Illyana Rasputin
	Charlie Heaton	...	Sam Guthrie
	Alice Braga	...	Dr. Reyes
	Blu Hunt	...	Dani Moonstar
	Henrique Zaga	...	Roberto da Costa (as Henry Zaga)