Robot gets 6, Bridget gets a 10

Rating: 6/10 (11 September 2004)

It makes me sick to the stomach to think Bridget Moynahan is engaged to some football player. She is quite, beautiful and talented but of course many people of this caliber can also be equally obnoxious, boring and awful. I must admit that I usually care for summer commercial offerings as much as an NFL preseason game, unless it seems to be something out of the ordinary. SFX-wise, this film is quite remarkable. We have indeed come along way since "The Lost World" was made in 1925- newsflash to all you kids- Steven Spielberg was not the first director to work with dinosaurs. "RoboCop"- Dutch director Paul Verhoeven's best American film did not have all this wonderful gadgetry but it did have more plot and substance- it is certainly still the best robot movie ever made, or at least within the last 20 years. I think "I, Robot" more or less runs in circles, and really doesn't care about its characters. There are some interesting characters though. Will Smith plays a black man who also happens to be a... well, you will have to pay 7 bucks yourself to find out. But, assuredly, Will's double whammy would have been interesting to examine. I think this is what separates QT from everyone else. People get killed in very fascinating ways in his films, but we still know their back stories. But, the action in "I, Robot" is OK- it does move fairly well. Bridget reminds me of Ashley Judd, except the later is more talented as far as acting is concerned. But, Bridget might actually be even sexier. I think the director could have done all the men in the audience a favor by removing the steam from the shower scene. You can see more of Janet Leigh in "Psycho" and that was made in 1960- why do you think we pay 7 bucks for these silly 140 million dollar pictures, anyway? I don't think anyone would accuse Alex Proyas of being Russ Myers if he did away with this- come on! Of course, this movie will make more money in Dubai and Calcutta than a FedEX employee will in 100 lifetimes- so nice to see them replaced by robots in this movie- I guess humans will only be able to work for the US Postal Service soon. Hey, I can't wait til 2035. Maybe Bridget, who is my age, will be single again by then.......All in all, a good waste of time. "Bourne Supremacy" was certainly much worse, and I only wanted to see that for Franke Potente- and, what a disappointment that turned out to be!