Good story, lousy cgi

Rating: 4/10 (13 April 2008)

This movie has a good story, but it relies way too much on badly made cgi. The robots look fake, Will Smiths car looks fake, the surroundings look fake and its hard to focus on anything else, when there are cgi in almost every shot of the film.
I know the movie was made back in 2004 and it was probably state of the art back then, but I've seen 20 year old movies with more convincing effects. With modern LCD TV sets and HDMI and Bluray, you can no longer get away with bad cgi. This movie look like a really well made computer game. But it doesn't look the least bit real. And when every action scene in the movie is entirely cgi, it ruins it for me. Personally I prefere real action with stunt men and real props and cars. But if they have to make it entirely cgi, it has to look real.
Had the movie been made today in 2008 it would have looked real and I would have been able to focus more on the story.