I thought it slowed down a bit near the end, but it exceeded my expectations. Really good movie.

My favorite part was: SPOILERS




When he falls in his own trap (Or the mutant's trap--it's debatable) and doesn't wake up until sunset.

I'm a little torn on his quest to cure the virus though. I figure it was the only thing really keeping him going, but lets say he had cured it and made it airborne, then what? Could world ever go back to being a somewhat normal place? I'd imagine the infected would be severly fucked up afterwards.

It was totally that monster's trap, specifically the one who purposefully stepped into the light. His trap always used a black tarp and some of his blood. The monster's trap used a manequin of which they observed him talking to, someone who he was close to.

I'm a little torn on his quest to cure the virus though. I figure it was the only thing really keeping him going, but lets say he had cured it and made it airborne, then what? Could world ever go back to being a somewhat normal place? I'd imagine the infected would be severly fucked up afterwards.

It was pretty ironic, too, considering that he stated earlier their lack of human characteristics.

If I recall correctly, 90% of people died, and very few people were immune. Most of the immune people were killed, so there are only a few million people left, most of them probably in the developed world. The point of the cure was to make sure those few people that were left could live a somewhat normal life.

Alright so my sister brought up a good point I think.
So Robert Nevile decides to stay on the island he is on while his family leaves because they are completely isolating the island (ie no way in or out). So how did Anna and Ethan get on and leave the island?

Very solid movie, even though the book's ending was much cooler.
I almost cried when he had to kill Sam. >_>

As the story progresses, it is revealed that some infected people have discovered a means to hold the disease at bay. However, the "still living" people appear no different from the true vampire during the day while both are immobilized in sleep. Thus, along with the vampires, Neville kills the still living people. He becomes a source of terror to the still living, since he can go around in daylight (which they can only do for a short length of time) and kill them while they sleep.

The still living send a girl named Ruth to spy on Neville, and they cleverly replicate Neville's relationship to the dog. Ruth pretends to be terrified of Neville at first sight, and rather than spend weeks trying to win her over, he attacks her and drags her back to his house. Though Neville is suspicious of her true nature and much of their interaction focuses on Neville's internal struggle between his deep seated paranoia and his hope, it is clear by his seizure of Ruth that the scales have tipped in favor of the irrational. Eventually Neville performs a blood test on her, revealing her true nature to him before she knocks him out. Ruth leaves a note telling him about the group of people like her, explaining that she was sent to spy and how monstrous he appears to them. Months later, the still living people attack, shooting Neville but taking him alive so that he can be executed in front of everyone in the new society.

Before he can be executed, Ruth provides him with an envelope of pills. Neville takes the pills so he will feel no pain when the still living execute him. He finally realizes why the new society of the living infected regards him as a monster: just as vampires were regarded as legendary monsters that preyed on the vulnerable humans in their beds, Neville has become a mythical figure that kills both vampires and the infected living while they are sleeping. He becomes a legend as the vampires once were, hence the title.

Who is the book by?

and they weren't vampires. Though I guess they were similar to them now that you mention it.

Who is the book by?

and they weren't vampires. Though I guess they were similar to them now that you mention it.

Richard Mattheson.

And yeah, they weren't actually vampires. In the book they're referred to as Vampires, and have Vampire weaknesses (crosses, garlic, ect.) but it's all explained as being solely psychological.

What the hell is a cure supposed to do anyways? Does that one that he captured have special blood? Or is the cure in all the infecteds' blood? How the hell did he find that out? That's the main reason I didn't really enjoy the movie, it just left too many big questions like that at the end. I did enjoy Smith's performance though. And the dog.

Sam the dog was perhaps the best dog ever featured in a movie.

Movie took a nosedive once Anna and Ethan showed up. Bad ending, and after my friend who read the book explained that version to me, I was disappointed I didn't get it.

Vampires looked terrible, and I felt like they glossed over a lot of stuff.

This movie was like the poor man's Cast Away/28 Days Later. Still not that bad of a show, though. Could have been at least an hour longer, and there were so many loose ends that could have filled those 60+ minutes.