Cinematography was excellent throughout, the storyline and script are brilliant, the use of a dog, Samantha, as a key actor was perfect to show us both Robert as companion and Robert as lonely, isolated survivor. Yet use of flashback was sparing, which I found all the more effective. There's an effective use of flashbacks that partly tell us the story of how we got to where we're at in this grim New York City and the flashbacks also serve to give us an overwhelming contrast between Life Before and Life After the apocalyptic disaster wiped out the city. And occasionally we got some relief from Smith's trademark humor that blended seamlessly with the rest of his performance to give us 'what it would be like' with a powerful delivery that just leaves me almost breathless. Every moment was full of pathos and full of menace, too. Yet I was riveted as Robert goes through his 'typical days' in NYC. This is the real strength of this movie: there's really not a lot of blood or gore or zombie scenes at all. to be the last man on earth, living off the land in NYC. Will delivers movingly and convincingly on a script that really focuses on giving us a picture of 'what it would be like'. And Will Smith is simply brilliant as the sole survivor, Robert Neville. This is a New York City we see large-scale and micro-scale in order to show us the environment in which the main character is acting. But none of them do justice to the New York depicted here. There's something of On the Beach and Resident Evil and of any number of disaster movies and zombie movies here.

The clips in the trailers for the movie were good, but you really have to see the full panoply of close-up shots, distance shots, etc to really appreciate the sheer scale of what this movie is depicting.

These were so very, very moving and very, very convincing. I've got to start with the scenes of a deserted New York City post-apocalypse. I just saw this movie today, the day it opened here.

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