Entertaining, but sometimes painfully cheesy

Rating: 7/10 (28 July 2004)

This movie review is 97.5% spoiler free !
Forgetting for a time that it is [very loosely] based on Asimov's book, and just looking at it as as stand-alone film, I would call it entertaining, but sometimes painfully cheesy/corny/lame.
Fortunately the scenes that made you cringe were fairly rare, leaving most of the movie quite interesting.
Most of the action sequences were well done, though there were a few that got rather cliched. I already laughed at Vin Diesel flying through the air on a motorcycle guns blazing, I didn't need to see Will Smith repeating this !
The special effects, especially the cars and robots, were exceptionally well done. If anyone has seen the music video called "All Is Full Of Love" by Björk, the robots look and move almost exactly like that. Makes me wonder if one of the special effects crew saw that particular music video.
There was a good amount of humor that wasn't cheesy, but then there were a few of the scenes between Will Smith and Bridget Moynahan that were just so cliched it made you feel like throwing up.
I gave it an IMDB rating of 7 out of 10.