Asimov betrayed

Rating: 2/10 (28 April 2005)

Lousy boring and oversimplified sci-fi flick with a lot of non-sense visual effects and Will Smith over-acting as usual. There's nothing left here of Asimov's invention and creativity: no Daneel Olivaw and no Elijah Baley. What we get is not even a visual clear idea of the future, but just usual tech stuff we see even on TV. Is this REALLY the director of "Dark City" and "The Crow"? It looks like a complete different director. In his two previous movies at least we got a lot of visual ideas and an a certain atmosphere. Here he leaves Smith do his "I-am-the-smart-funny-guy" things without control and covers the rest of the movies of CGIs. A last note for the screenplay: Akiva Goldsman is the man that killed Batman and wrote "Lost In Space". Sometimes in the middle of the night I wonder how could he write "A beautiful mind"... Mysteries of the unknown.