A decent sci-fi action movie

Rating: Null/10 (24 August 2004)

By all means, this movie is decent sci-fi action, but lacks the depth it claims.
The movie opens with the Three Laws of Robotics, as stated by Isaac Asimov. In short, these say that a robot shall always obey humans and protect them and even through inaction, can never harm them. Cue Will Smith in one of his more serious roles. He still cracks some jokes every now and then and does some overacting in a few scenes. Luckily, only very few scenes so his overall performance is decent. The plot, which, without revealing too much of it, is based around the three laws of robotics going out the window, never really goes in depth and I got the feeling that the action was more important at certain times. Too bad, since the film tries so hard to be something more than brainless action. Effects were nicely done, the robots were looking good and some of the outdoors scenes were breathtaking. Will Smiths car was beautiful, but Audi sponsoring part of the film was too evident at some times. Almost all of the 'extra' cars were modified Audi's. Even the police drove modified Audi A6's.
All in all, this film kept me pretty entertained for close to 2 hours, but didn't have me really thinking about what I just saw.
A decent 6,9 out of 10 for this film.