10 Worst CGI Effects In Sci-Fi Movies

Will Smith has had multiple encounters with the world of CGI creatures and effects during his career and the results have been, well, varied.

Films like I, Robot (2004) and Men in Black (1997) were both equipped with top standard digital creations, whereas the likes of Gemini Man (2019) felt like unfortunate steps backwards for both the actor and visual effects as a whole.

Yet, it's hard to look past I Am Legend (2007) as the Smith-starring film with the most disappointing CGI visuals to date.

During the film, Smith puts in a deeply compelling and moving performance as Dr. Robert Neville, a U.S. Army virologist who is immune to a virus which has killed off 5.4 billion people and turned the majority of those left into infected Darkseekers.

However, once the aforementioned Darkseekers reveal themselves, the audience's fear of those who lurk in the dark and attack the uninfected is replaced with apathy. Director Francis Lawrence has since admitted that he wished he'd been able to use actors and practical effects to produce the infected humans, but the footage he shot with '50 dancers and parkour guys' early in production wasn't up to standard so he was forced to go digital.

Sadly, the out of place CGI Darkseekers which made their way into the finished product completely distracted audiences from one of Smith's career best performances and made I Am Legend something of a bittersweet experience as a whole.