Will Smith at the helm plus an intriguing and unique story, this movie rocked

Rating: 8/10 (25 July 2004)

I-Robot***½[3 ½ Stars]-Will Smith puts on a one-man show. Not quite ''Bad Boys 2****[4 Stars]'' but one hell of an action roller coaster ride. Its backed up by a very intriguing and unique story of questioning a robot's identity as a machine or person. Two movies came to mind from this plot line, ''A Clockwork Orange***½[3 ½ Stars]'' and ''Ani-matrix**[2 Stars]''. A point of view was from ''A Clockwork Orange***½[3 ½ Stars]'' where Will Smith referred to the robots as clockworks meaning objects with no free will that only do what they are programed to do. In the movie the robots were programed to commit actions that followed the three laws of robotics:Law I / A robot may not harm a human or, by inaction, allow a human being to come to harm Law II / A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the first law Law III / A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the first or second law. The other thing that brought ''Ani-matrix**[2 Stars]'' into perspective was the robotic revolution which in ''Ani-matrix**[2 Stars]'' I really didn't get a great taste of being that the rest of that movie was weak as far as looking into certain aspects of the aftermath of that revolution. Im glad ''I-Robot'' came around to give me a refreshing look on the aspects of robotic free will and revolution. The only real fault I could find in this movie was its ending. Nothing was particularly wrong with the ending, but along all the other positive things going for this movie I was expecting a bit more of an original ending. Its an ending that could of been predicted but wasn't completely predictable. Other then that, with Will Smith at the helm plus an intriguing and unique story, this movie rocked.