I, Robot

First of all, just to get it out of the way, I haven’t read the stories. As a card carrying geek, I hang my head in shame.

I have every belief that if I had indeed read Asimov’s work, I’d spill hatred and bile into the review, wondering how anyone could make such crap from such wonderful source material.

But, since I haven’t, I must judge the movie on it’s own merits. Based on that restriction, I think the movie is a cookie cutter action flick… that I enjoyed watching a lot.

Granted, this movie won’t win any academy awards for script writing or acting, but I can’t get past the fact that I am a sucker for action flicks, and this one didn’t disappoint.

The Gist: Will Smith plays Detective Del Spooner, who is sent to investigate a murder. He comes to the unpopular conclusion that the deceased robotics engineer was murdered by one of his own robots. This, everyone tells him, is impossible, as robots are incapable of harming a human, as it goes against its fundamental programming. As a new line of robots floods the market, and things go wrong in a major way, Spooner quips, “Somehow ‘I told you so,’ doesn’t quite cover it.”

The Good: Pretty to look at. Great action scenes. Nice little twist as to who is controlling the robots. Typical popcorn, summer, block buster kind of movie.

The Bad: Nothing more than typical, good looking, popcorn, summer, block buster kind of movie.

With the big budget summer action movies, often you have leave your brain at home, watch the flick, and come to the decision “yup, I liked it” or “nope, that sucked.” I liked this one.

Rating 3.5 out of 5

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