Disappointing *SPOILERS*

Rating: Null/10 (11 August 2004)

I went to see this having been told that it was a better than average, more intelligent style of action movie. I guess I must have blinked and missed the intelligent part.
What I didn't understand is Dr. Lanning simply didn't leave Spooner(Will Smith) a hand-written note in the lab explaining what had happened rather than a copy of Hansel and Gretel which, in a very contrived way, meant that he had to follow clues to solve the mystery. Just as unbelievable was Spooner and Calvin's ability to fend off hundreds of robots programmed to kill them, especially seeing as Calvin had never fired a gun in her life. I don't mind suspending belief up to a point but here, the action was to daft to be enjoyable.
Will Smith, whose work I normally quite enjoy, was very one-dimensional and his cheesy one-liners were irritating rather than amusing.
I felt that it was a shame that the producers had relied on the CGI, big action sequences and the appeal of Will Smith for the movie to work when they could have created a thought provoking and quite sinister movie if they had concentrated more on the ambiguities of the three rules.
I would give this a disappointing 4/10.