*-**-***Will Smith's Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller - I, ROBOT DVD.XVID*-**-***
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Tagline: What will you do with yours?
Plot Outline: In the year 2035 a techno-phobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity.
Rating: 7.0/10
Cast overview, first billed only:
Will Smith .... Del Spooner
Bridget Moynahan .... Susan Calvin
Alan Tudyk .... Sonny
James Cromwell .... Dr. Alfred Lanning
Bruce Greenwood .... Lawrence Robertson
Adrian Ricard .... Granny (as Adrian L. Ricard)
Chi McBride .... Lt. John Bergin
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for intense stylized action, and some brief partial nudity.
Runtime: 115 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Trivia: In the theatrical trailer, Del Spooner (Will Smith) tells Lt. John Bergin (Chi McBride) that "I'm gonna miss the good old days", with Bergin responding, "What Good Old Days?" Spooner then says, "When people were killed by other people." In the film, it was Lt. Bergin who says, "I'm gonna miss the good old days," first instead of Spooner.
Goofs: Revealing mistakes: When Spooner and Dr Calvin are trying to destroy VIKI, Spooners machine gun strap hooks over a wire that has no hole in it. There was no hole in the strap so it couldn't possibly hook onto the wire. When Spooner goes to retrieve the gun he pulls the gun straight off without having to take the strap off.
Quotes:
[first lines] Detective Del Spooner: [singing along with Stevie Wonder's "Superstition"] Seven years of bad luck.
Comments : Excellent film
The maker of a film adaptation has three choices. First, he can try to translate the original medium as faithfully as possible, striving as much as possible to preserve the spirit and content of the original while re-imagining the story as a film. Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films exemplify this approach. Second, he could instead try to capture the essence of the original, while largely abandoning the particulars of the original, as in the intelligently satirical but hard-hearted film version of Starship Troopers. Third, he can try to do something original with the material, drawing inspiration from the written story, but creating a unique film with a unique vision. I, Robot is more the the third than the first or second. While little remains of Asimov's stories in this killer robot metropolitan fantasy, the film is informed by, and offers no disrespect, to the good Doctor's creations.
Will Smith plays a Jack Slater-styled maverick cop. If it's old, it's good.
The robot, Sonny, is a character himself, a curious, frightened creature that seems capable of anything. Could Sonny be the murderer? We hope not, and yet, we see the grim possibility that a machine might consider itself more than a human being. We understand Sonny's drive to live and grow. As human beings, we know what lengths we would go to to ensure our survival, whatever the moral charges facing us.
While not as ambitious as A.I., it is more successful, and while not as intelligent as Robocop, it is better played. While the movie does suffer from inconsistencies in mood and philosophy, such hiccups are secondary to the emotionality and drive of the film, its fury of thought as well as action. In moments, I, Robot is a terrifying vision of the future. Too few science-fiction movies manage to scare us with the power of technology, but future shock is vital to the science-fiction story. Modern science-fiction truly began with the detonation at White Sands. The Atomic Age has given way to the Digital Age, but we still have not solved the problem of how to wrest the power of technology from the creatures of the id.
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