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Metascore®65 out of 100 | Generally favorable reviews

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 90
    Village Voice | Scott Foundas

    In what has been a pretty remarkable career up to now, it's this performance that fully affirms Smith as one of the great leading men of his generation. Read full review

  • 75
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Tasha Robinson

    While I Am Legend is reasonably absorbing, it can be difficult to focus on the film that actually made it to the screen, instead of the many versions that didn't. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    If it is true that mankind has 100 years to live before we destroy our planet, it provides an enlightening vision of how Manhattan will look when it lives on without us. The movie works well while it's running, although it raises questions that later only mutate in our minds. Read full review

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    In spirit, I Am Legend is caught in some abstractly doom-laden sci-fi past. For what it is, though, the film is well-done, a case of suspenseful competence trumping questionable relevance. Read full review

  • 75
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    As Tom Hanks did in "Cast Away," Will Smith pulls off this half-insane role perfectly. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    There is something graceful and effortless about this performance (Mr. Smith's), which not only shows what it might feel like to be the last man on earth, but also demonstrates what it is to be a movie star. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    Remarkably eerie yet annoyingly larded with cheap horror-film shock effects, I Am Legend stands as an effective but also irksome adaptation of Richard Matheson's classic 1954 sci-fi novel. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Carina Chocano

    Slick, adrenaline-fueled fun. Read full review

  • 63
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    A little more than halfway in, Legend, based on the book by Richard Matheson (which also spawned 1971's Omega Man and 1964's TheLast Man on Earth), deteriorates into a schlocky zombie horror flick and loses its steam. Read full review

  • 60
    Time | Richard Corliss

    The word "mixed" isn't mixed enough to fit my response to this film. Read full review