“I Am Legend” is due to be released on March 18th, but because I have special perks, I was able to rent a pre-street copy of this movie on Blu-ray disc. First things first, this movie impressed me. The basic premise is that you follow Will Smith in his journeys as scientist who is responsible for causing the apocalypse. The plot moves along in a nice way detailing survivors gone mad. At its core, I Am Legend focuses on the struggles between Smith and the catastrophe he feels he’s responsible for. Though on the outer shell it sprinkles flavors of a proto-vampire/proto-zombie sci-fi flick. I like this movie because while it wasn’t really a “horror” film like many others try to be these days, it is a well-crafted science fiction movie that actually has heart and soul. Granted, it may not be an avalanche of heart and soul though it doesn’t try too terribly at that either. “I Am Legend” is a fun film. Definitely a popcorn movie, with a little more than your standard flair thrown in. At first I thought to myself, “I hope this isn’t another weak vampire movie,” and I’m sure glad it proved to be much more than that.
Now, anyone could have told you that. But what is so special about the blu-ray release? Besides the stunnin crisp 1080p visuals and being able to access the menu in-movie like all blu-rays there’s NOTHING really. The Blu-ray version actually has some of the bonus features in 1080i/p whereas the DVD can only be up to 480p. There’s two documentary/featurette sorts of things, and there’s some comic books which were co-created by Orson Scott Card, which is one of my favorite Science Fiction authors. Granted, the bonus features have over an hour or so of content, but it’s nothing anyone will really watch. The comic book addition was an interesting twist. It fares well in the aspect that it puts all the extra content onto one Blu-ray, whereas with the DVD version, there are two.

I enjoyed “I Am Legend”, but it is not a great movie. This film isn’t bad either. It’s a good film, and I’m fine with that. As a Blu-ray release, it fails to deliver and doesn’t bring anything new to the table. However, it’s a fine film.