Alone and frustrated, Robert Neville is bent on revenge. That same night, he drives out to the same spot where he was trapped. He lures the creatures out. As soon as the pack is running towards him, he turns the lights on his vehicle and plows them over. Soon enough though, the pack is too much for him to bear. They soon overtake his SUV and he is nearly killed when a bright light turns on and the creatures scatter.
He loses consciousness and later awakens inside his home with the smell of bacon and eggs wafting through the air. He grabs his gun and slowly makes his way into the kitchen. There he finds a woman and her son. Anna and Ethan turn out to be other survivors of the outbreak that heard his broadcast on the radio that he would be at the South Pier everyday at noon to shelter and feed any other survivors. They are on their way to a survivor camp in Vermont that they heard about. Robert and Anna argue about this because he doesn't believe there are anymore survivors. While they are arguing, he hears noises outside. Soon, they realize that they were followed to his home by the zombies. Robert, Anna and Ethan fight for their lives in the final standoff of the zombies. The end of the film is really intense where they find themselves locked in the downstairs lab behind a bulletproof glass door with the creature he was testing laying on the gurney. To his surprise he sees her almost human again and realizes that he found the cure. Drawing blood from himself, he makes Anna and Ethan get into the fireplace and locks them in but giving her his sample before doing so. All the while, the leader of this horde is crashing into the glass plated door and slowly breaking it away. Robert grabs his grenade and as the last bit of glass door breaks away, he pulls the clip from the grenade and runs out into the room where there are several dozen other creatures and blows himself up, taking out the whole lot of them.
The final 2 minutes of the film shows Anna and Ethan drive up to a gate. They walk up to it and the gate is opened by soldiers. Beyond the gate you see a small city with other normal humans. The shot pans out as she hands the cure to one of the soldiers and you see the city and fence all around the city. This is where the community of survivors went to hopefully repopulate the planet by using the cure.
In my opinion, this was a really good film. Although the special effects in some parts could have used some work, overall they did a good job making NYC look abandoned, especially for the city that never sleeps. I give this movie an A grading and would definitely recommend it to anyone who likes this genre of movie.
Will Smith does a great job, as he usually does in his films, which makes him an A list celeb. His real daughter from Jada Smith, plays, ironically, his daughter in the movie although not a very big part, but nevertheless a great part for her.
What is really interesting about this film, is the fact that no more than a handful of people played major parts in the movie, but they used casts of hundreds of extras for short 2 or 3 second shots.
If you get the chance to see this movie, it is best to see on the big screen. But it could be watched when it comes out on video, especially on a home theater with surround sound.
