At the start, Robert Neville drives into some yellow poles only to drive into them again in the following shot. See more...
Alongside billboards advertising Broadway musicals such as "Wicked" and "Legally Blonde: the Musical", there is a large banner showing a Batman/Superman logo. This is the filmmakers' wry commentary on a proposed Batman/Superman movie that was stuck in development hell and was never produced. See more...
Directed by Francis Lawrence, starring Will Smith (add more)
Genres: Drama, Horror, Sci-fi, Thriller
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In the scene where Robert is looking for his dog when she runs off into the building, as he looks round the corner at the mirror, you can briefly see the camera light. [No, it's just the flashlight on the end of Neville's gun, and you can see that it startles him.]
During Robert's first flashback, while arguing with his wife in the car, he hits a sick person, who leaves a blood smear on the passenger side window. During the second flashback of the same scene, when his wife gets out of the car, there is no blood on the window. [Flashbacks are things as he remembers them. Based on his current situation it is reasonable to say that he may not remember things the same way all of the time.]
Corrected by papajim
When Will Smith is trying to hunt the deer and they go down the bridge, on the right side of the screen you can see someone's shadow running - a film crew member, probably. (He's the last man in Manhattan and the zombies aren't out yet, so who else could the shadow belong to?) [I watched this scene frame by frame and there is no shadow whatsoever.]
Corrected by Guest
At the end he says that 1% of people are immune. That is 1% of 6 billion, and that is 60 million, not 12 million. [The actual line in the movie is "...LESS than 1% immunity", not exactly 1 percent. He's making a point of how small the level of immunity was, not making an accurate statistical analysis.]
Corrected by Gary O'Reilly
There's just been a major zombie outbreak but humanity don't seem to have put up much of a fight as there's no sign of struggle anywhere (Smashed glass, abandoned barricades, spent bullets etc.). [There was no one to struggle. It started as an airborne disease.]
Corrected by Phixius
When Robert Neville is playing golf, the camera is rotating around and you see him hit the ball. As he says "yeah," you can see two balls in a line. The camera then goes back down so you can see the dog's face and Robert swinging. You cannot see the balls as they are hidden, but Robert then hits the ball towards the hole. However having seen the shot beforehand, there were only two balls to hit and he couldn't have hit either cleanly like that as they where in a line. [You can see Robert use the club to move one of the balls into position to be hit.]
Corrected by Phixius
When Dr. Neville is walking up to "Fred" the mannequin, its head moves from side to side between shots. [As with the shot of "Fred" while Neville is driving, this is done intentionally to show Neville's state of mind. He's imagining "Fred" is moving.]
When Robert Neville sees Anna at his house after he wakes up, Anna was seen going to the cooker wearing a pink dressing gown with Ethan in a striped T-shirt. This changes with the next shot of Anna and Ethan who are wearing a grey top and a dark grey/black T-shirt respectively. [He does not really 'see' Anna and Ethan when he first gets to the kitchen, he is actually envisioning his wife and daughter. A moment later, reality sets in and then he truly sees Anna and Ethan, hence the change of clothing.]
Corrected by Rikki
All the 'spare' cars would be seized up and have other problems making them generally non-working from lack of use for 3 years. [He doesn't drive every car he comes across. He merely used and maintained a few cars.]
Corrected by Phixius
The Ford SUV was destroyed when Robert goes out and attacks the Dark Seekers; I think it was even flipped as well. So how can the same truck be driven, by the woman and the kid that rescued him, at the end of the film? [They have a virtually unlimited supply of vehicles to choose from, including entire car lots full of similar model vehicles.]
If 12 million people survived, 6,488,000,000 would become "darkseekers" to be exact, or 5,988,000,000 to count from 6 billion - not 588,000,000 as Roberts suggests, unless the population prior to the outbreak dropped to 600,000,000. The numbers are out by an order of magnitude. [He's referring to-non mutant survivors. The virus (approximately) kills 90%, mutates 10% and has no effect on 0.2%.]
Corrected by Grumpy Scot
After three years, the gasoline/fuel supply used by Will Smith's character would have been degraded to the point of being completely unusable in a combustion engine or generator. Depending on the storage method, gas typically beings to break down after only several weeks. Even with a fuel stabilizer additive, after three years of storage the gas would quickly ruin the fuel injectors of any engine. [This has already been corrected. Octane level may drop,but gasoline would still be usable.]
Corrected by Twotall
When New York is quarantined, all bridges were destroyed. However, Anna and Ethan drive to pick up Neville. Also in the alternate ending, the three characters drive over a bridge to leave the island. [Firstly, we never see how they arrive in Manhattan, they could have come by boat. Secondly, the alternate ending wasn't ever used as the official ending, so their exit via a still useable bridge cannot be considered a mistake.]
When Dr. Neville and Sam are trapped in the building after chasing a deer, when they are running out of the building and Neville jumps out of the window, two dark seekers jump with him, but when they land there's only one. [In the last shot of that scene, a wide angle of Smith looking down at the darkseekers, you can see (DVD version) two darkseekers. The second is harder to see, but it is obviously there in the lower left corner of the screen.]
If pretty much everyone but Neville and a few colonies of survivors are dead, who is running the power plants so that he can have electricity in his house? And where does he get gas for his vehicles? Okay, he could siphon it out of other cars, but even that would start to run out after awhile. He does a lot of driving around. [There is a pretty clear shot in the movie that shows him having several generators in his house that are powering everything. And petrol is *everywhere*. Other cars, transport tankers, the tanks underneath gas stations etc. He even has access to a naval base, where there would be many fuel stores. The film also takes place in 2012, by which time there could have been advances in fuel efficiency, in terms of more efficient engines, or fuel additives.]
Corrected by Gary O'Reilly
In the scene where Neville is hunting deer in his red Mustang, just after he slides to a stop, Neville looks out over the deer running away. Look to the very right in the dark shady building. You see what looks like a dog running away. I thought Sam was the only dog left? [It is never stated in the movie that Sam is the only healthy dog left. There are other surviving dogs who have avoided getting infected, but they have most likely become wild.]
Corrected by Twotall
In the movie, the medicine to cure the virus is called a vaccine. But vaccines can not cure someone who already has a virus: they can only cure someone if administered before the symptoms occur. [This is representative of Neville's state of mind. He failed to make a working vaccine back when a vaccine would've done some good (before the virus had dominated the planet and there were still people who could be administered with it). His mind is stuck on this failure and he can't rest until he makes up for it, so he repeatedly refers to it as a vaccine due to being stuck in the past.]
Corrected by Gary O'Reilly
When Will Smith's character is talking to Anna, the movie Shrek turns itself off when they are in the kitchen. [The movie did not turn off. When Will moved into the kitchen, the TV noise just faded away.
The last shot of the TV in the background showed it was still on, but virtually silent at this point.
Roughly 1:06:25.]
When Robert and Sam are eating and Sam is being picky about her food, there is a glass right next to Robert, each time he talks you can see a small reflection of the boom mike moving. [Actually what you see is Robert's hand reflecting off the glass. It only moves when he moves.]
In the first 'hunting' scene, Will Smith is obviously hunting a deer but the sound that is heard is an elk call. [There could well be an elk nearby. As we see, there are a number of different animals in the area.]
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