I'm Unimpressed!

Rating: Null/10 (2 September 2004)

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A movie that could've upped the ante after Minority Report, and the standard-setting Blade Runner, gets reduced to a typical mindless summer blockbuster, right there with Bad Boys II. Director Alex Proyas, whose previous works I've held in high regard, and consider them to be close to near-perfect celluloid realizations, disappoints big time. There is a lesson to be learned from Chronicles of Riddick & I, Robot - never give cutting-edge talented directors like David N. Twohy & Alex Proyas the kind of excessive budgets reserved only for Jerry Bruckheimer productions. More budget = bad scripts, bad pacing, and loss of edge. Although in comparison, Chronicles of Riddick still manages to entertain, which is more than I could say for I, Robot. This movie needed to be more darker, with a tight budget, and a tighter script.
I am no pseudo-intellectual, or an Asimov-ist(??!!) to put on display the glaring holes in the sacrilegious adaptation of Asimov's work.
Am just your typical discerning viewer, who wants his money's worth when he heads out to the local multiplex. And I didn't get that satisfaction!
Lastly - the HAL syndrome has been done to death. They should have a law against any screenplay that uses the HAL-gone-bad conclusions.
I hope that Alex Proyas does not indulge in the near future in such mindless fares. He should stick to the dark themes, and tight budgets that result in exemplary works of cinema.