Just Like a Hundred Other Movies

Rating: 6/10 (20 April 2006)

It's just blah. A bunch of reproduced computer animated glistening robots. Will Smith, whom I really like, just a caricature, doing his talky thing. The movie lacks any charm. I know that a big battle is going on between those who are fans of the book and the movie. As long as they stole the title of the book, maybe there is an obligation to use some semblance of the laws of robotics. This is like most of the science fiction coming out these days. It's some guy trying to buck the establishment (the new Enron or whatever), who has to get to the bottom of things. He gets beaten up and barely escapes with his life several times along the way. Why couldn't someone with a lick of cleverness, build in a kind of means of circumventing or explaining the behavior based on the laws that Asimov set up. It doesn't mean that he or she would have had to copy the plots; just play by the rules. But then you would have to have the wherewithall to use a brain and come up with a plot that would fit. This is simple entertainment. I'm amazed that it did that well at the box office. I guess Hollywood has a good grasp of the lowest common denominator.