8 Good Films One Crippling Flaw Away From Being Awesome

4. I Am Legend

The Flaw: The CGI 'Darkseekers' Disregarding the mutilation of the source material, I am Legend was shaping up to be a pretty amazing film. The empty dystopian city populated only by the charismatic Will Smith (as Robert Neville), his dog Sam and a very loud car was eerie and awe-inspiring in equal measure. The routine of Neville's daily life twinned with Smith's pitch-perfect performance connoted the isolation and desperation of the planet's last surviving human perfectly. So far, so awesome. Then the creatures turn up. Oh dear Lord, the creatures. It doesn't matter that they are no longer vampiric, like in the book; it doesn't matter that the film has seemingly named them after a Christian rock band, and it doesn't even matter that these 'Darkseekers' are moronic individuals who communicate by shouting like a deaf metaller. What does matter is that these supposed harbingers of doom, these 'terrifying' creatures of the night look like they've been crudely fashioned out of plasticine. Consequently any believability or credibility the film had disappears as soon as the lumbering idiots appear on screen. It really is a crying shame, as the rest of the film deserved so much better than this mess of CGI hooligans.