A Note By an Avid Asimov Reader

Rating: 10/10 (30 July 2004)

When I went to see I, Robot in the theater, originally, I went out of some morbid curiosity as to how badly the movie would distort asimov's message. To my pleasant surprise this film did an incredible job of maintaining that message. Unlike some of the other film's based on Asimov (Bicentennial Man, etc.) I, Robot offered a complex plot line that was well carried out and left me feeling that Asimov would have actually enjoyed to see it, had his wife been able to pry him away from the typewriter. My only grievance with the film was that the character Susan Calvin, who was the only character actually in Asimov's books, wasn't as well developed as I would have hoped. All in all though I'd have to say that I' robot was one of the better films played so far this summer and I don't expect that there will be another film based on Asimov's works as well done as this one was. I just hope they don't have a sequel as I doubt it could be anywhere near as good as the original was. So my conclusion is that the film far exceeded my expectations and had the asimov feel but didn't reach the extent that it would have had Asimov been alive to write it himself.