In the mood for... an Audi!

Rating: 7/10 (5 March 2005)

I don't know why, but when I finished watching "I robot" I desperately wanted to have an Audi (a big one) OK, no gibes! Alex Proyas had previously demonstrated in "Dark City" and "The Crow" that he was quite capable of making nice futuristic-action movies, how much he liked the video-clip look, and how good he is mixing shots, explosions and an interesting and entertaining plot, so this new work from Proyas is not an exception. Nowadays you don't know if artifacts such as "I, Robot" should be considered as "animation movies" because of the continuous presence of sets and characters designed by a computer. Anyway, let's accept this is the future (or the present) of cinema: the fusion of flesh and animations. The aesthetic of the film seems to be highly influenced by the last Spielberg's works ("A.I.", "Minority Report"), and the argument absorbs ideas from classics of the sci-fi genre such as "Blade Runner" or "2001" (and I don't mind if you think that's a cliché). Nevertheless, Proyas has constructed a more commercial product than Kubrick's or Scott's ones, much more aimed to the masses, and so he adds some pyrotechnics from "Terminator 2", or that cynical-with-shady-past-cop, just like Bruce Willis characters (in fact, he could have been a nice election for the film just if he was 10 years younger). Will Smith makes a nice job: he'll never be a great actor, but he perfectly fits in this kind of stories.
In short: an story of a good cop who has to face a army of angry robots pretty funny, and just perfect to be enjoyed in one of those awful shopping center cinemas with an XXL-sized bag of pop-corn.
PD: Maybe V.I.K.I. wasn't that wrong My rate: 7/10