Mediocre

Rating: 5/10 (14 August 2010)

This movie begins in the year of 2035, where robots are just something that walk around everyday and are programmed to work along with humans. Detective Del Spooner (Will Smith) is called to investigate the suicide of Dr. Alfred Lanning, who is the maker of the robots. But Del does not believe that it was a suicide, he suspects that a robot murdered the doctor, which according to the three laws cannot be true. One of the laws being that a robot cannot harm a human, or allow a human to come to harm. A robot named Sonny soon becomes the main suspect, according to Del, but because of the laws Del will have a hard time convincing people of this, and he must find out the truth before it is too late.
Before I saw this film I had been told that it was a really good movie by everyone I knew, but I just really did not like this film. Especially when it came to the story. I found that nearly everything that happened in this film I could see coming from a mile off. It was way too predictable in my opinion. I am not a very big sci-fi fan, so that may have been one of my bigger problems with this film, but to be honest I found the entire story to just be kind of cheesy, and as I was watching it I felt as if I had seen movies with a similar storyline several times before.
However, this movie was not all bad, there were a few parts that I thought were good. Will Smith I thought gave a very convincing performance, and I really enjoyed it. But for me he needs to play in a few more roles that are not just your average shoot-'em-up, because for me it is getting extremely old. With that said I really did not like Bridget Moynahan in this movie. I found her performance poorly acted, and very over the top at times, which was one of the bigger downfalls of the movie in my opinion.
Overall, I, Robot is an action packed film with and ending explanation that will be very pleasing for most audiences, and even most sci-fi fans as well as that. But for other people you will probably just find this movie mediocre with good acting at times.