I, Robot

I, Robot

Starring: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood

Directed by: Alex Proyas
Written by: Jeff Vintar, Akiva Goldsman, Isaac Asimov (suggested by book)

Rating: PG-13
Length: 1 hour 55 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Release Date: July 16, 2004

Robots are personal assistants and one is accused of murder. Robots are taking over!

Will Smith plays the typical Will Smith character, which is the one he played in Men in Black. He’s the same guy, except this guy doesn’t trust robots. In the world he lives in, everyone has some kind of personal assistant robot, but he doesn’t trust them. He thinks they are going to take over. He’s super conflicted since he has robot parts in his arm and they are keeping him alive or functioning or something like that. I can’t really remember, but he’s very conflicted about robot parts in him and hating robots. I got that point.

The guy who created all these fabulous robots is found dead. It looks like suicide by jumping from his high office window, but Will Smith knows it was a robot. Now he has to find out why. His boss tells him to stop with the crazy robot murdering nonsense, but Will Smith knows best. He will find out the truth while dressing like vintage-2004 in this futuristic time. He has “old” sneakers and doesn’t like the cars that drive themselves. He needs to drive them manually, which is considered insane (!) by everyone else.

I love futuristic movies, like Minority Report, when they actual have futuristic stuff that isn’t generic. The futuristic stuff in this movie is pretty generic, so the people that worked on it didn’t have big imaginations. Beyond that and the generic characters in the movie, it was pretty entertaining. It was going along well, until the very end when we find out what really happened and it turns all sappy. The moral of the story is humans are dumb and destroying themselves. Don’t we already know that?

Grade: C+

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