... it left me with a sense of broken-heartedness for Neville, which I was expecting from having read the book. However I didn’t expect the feeling to be so powerful or long-lasting. The ending didn’t really surprise me – in the novel he dies (albeit in a slightly different way) The basic story (regardless if you read the book or watch the movie) is going to be very sad and disturbing. That’s just the nature of it, there is no way around it. There were one or two people in the theater who couldn’t keep it in, and just started crying. The parts that really done it in for me was when the film showed his family leaving (him crying) and then they get killed, then his dog (Sam) and when he said hello to the manikin in the video store and then asking it to say hello back. Very sad.