It's a post-apocalyptic type of film, featuring Will Smith as the last guy left alive after a plague has killed most of humanity, and left most of the survivors as zombies. That's right, it's a zombie film. Not entirely sure what I was expecting, but it definitely wasn't what I saw. Difficult to explain properly without spoylars, so into spoylar-ville I go...
I can probably come out of that now. The film builds up nicely for the first 90 minutes or so, with zombies coming and going, and feels like it's building up towards a big ending. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite arrive. To me, the film just kind of wrapped itself up quickly, but in a manner that was somewhat unsatisfactory. Some of the scenes earlier on were great, and the tension and emotion was done really well, but it deserved a better ending.To continue the review, I wrote:It basically starts off as Big Will and his dog, roaming the streets to survive, but going back to his house to wait out the evenings, because the zombies are harmed by sunlight. You find out that he is immune to the virus, both airbourne and contact, and dogs to only the airbourne. Therefore, you know the dog will snuff it. Once she does, I was hoping for the film to turn into a biut more of an action-movie, but it doesn't. Will goes a little mad, but is then rescued by a woman, and the film pretty quickly wraps itself up from there. Will is trying to find a cure for the virus, and does so right at the end, but it's a total anti-climax. In fact...
Overall, I'd say it's maybe worth sweeping, but I'll not see it again at the cinema, and am very unlikely to bother with the DVD either. Have an arbitrary 6.5/10:
As an aside, when going to the cinema I strongly dislike product adverts, especially the ones that are already thrust upon me on the TV too. However, I do like seeing trailers for upcoming releases, and the trailer for Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street confirmed my hopes that this film looks awesome.
However, Charlie Wilson's War looks rubbish. It appears to be a bit of a comedy about the CIA funding "rebels" in Afghanistan to fight against those nasty ruskies towards the end of the Cold War. I know it's a dark comedy really, and based on a true story, but by all accounts it somehow skates over the fact that the fucking rebels are the Taliban, and that the whole situation with the Taliban now was only made possible by the CIA's support in the first place. Sometimes I really like the way 'Merkin films address certain situations, and sometimes I really really fucking hate it too.
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