Now that I see Variety's Todd McCarthy has offered up a review of WB's "I Am Legend," I'll go ahead and toss in my two cents -- it's a steaming pile of garbage.

I try not to be that forceful when I offer a negative opinion of a film, but the screenwriters raped and pillaged...creatively sodomized Richard Matheson's seminal work of science fiction. They clearly didn't understand the title, for starters, and director Francis Lawrence (who has good ideas as a director, I feel, even in the awful "Constantine") for some reason saw it fit to turn the "infected" into half-aborted Incredible Hulks running around like unrendereed visual effects prototypes. Simply awful.

The borderline laughable insistence on threading some Bob Marley logic into the thing, fit with "Three Little Birds" hitting the soundtrack ten times too many, kind of pales in comparison next to the fact that, of all the versions of this book the studio could have done, they ACTUALLY cooked up something worse than both "The Last Man on Earth" and "The Omega Man." Stunning.

I don't even have the energy to dissect this thing, but I will say that, while there was an opportunity to do something really special here, Will Smith still has a couple of good moments here and there. It's difficult to carry a film like this by yourself, and I think only a few actors in the business could have done it.