What's it about? Adapted from Richard Matheson's novelette, I Am Legend stars Will Smith as Robert Neville, the last normal man alive on Earth, as he fends off attacks from humans infected by a plague and tries to discover a cure as he scrambles for survival amidst the rubble of New York. How does it end? Having discovered other uninfected humans are still alive, they end up trapped in his underground laboratory as the vampirical infected storm their way in. Neville hides his companions in a safe place before taking them all out with a hand grenade, dying a martyr. Why was it controversial? Aside from being about as cliched as movie endings get, it is vastly inferior to the originally intended ending which reveals Neville as the "bad guy" (after all, he's spent much of the film running around killing the infected at every chance possible). Rather than complex creatures with emotions of their own who only storm his building to retrieve the one he'd captured earlier - also the entire point of the book on which the film is based - the ending opts for boring old monsters going on a killing spree. Good work, Hollywood...
