Isaac is ashamed!

Rating: 1/10 (14 June 2005)

This movie was an absolute abomination. The original robot stories by Isaac Asimov were intellectual, compelling, and most of all, humane. This movie was generic, bland, and mechanistic. The characters were very flat, with Will Smith as a typical lone-wolf/obsessed detective delving into a conspiracy that keeps going higher and higher. The use of red lights to indicate evil robots and blue for good belied the simplicity of any philosophy in the film. The penultimate insult to the legacy of Asimov was the over-reliance on violence and flashy CGI to compensate for the underweight script. The best thing I can say about this picture is that the explosions were big, bright and loud.