Good plot, painfully poor dialogue

Rating: 6/10 (27 May 2005)

I think they did a good job of taking some key themes from Isaac Asimov's famous book of short vignettes and turning it into a suspenseful story. I was even fine with the addition of Will Smith's character and his backstory. However the dialogue was painfully bad. They really should've worked on that more. The effects were pretty good (I'm still not a huge CG fan), I especially liked how they handled Sonny's "face". The most disappointing was the obvious product placement for the car and the shoes. I am a huge fan and (before they doubled the price) owned 4 different pairs of Converse, but I was still offended at how much they were pushed in the film. They served no purpose at all in furthering the plot and were merely there to sell the product. Overall, it was worth watching. Next time though, I wish they would concentrate on the dialogue as much as they obsess over trying to wow us with the "special effects". I give it a 7 minus 1 for product placement.