Good Effort From Mr. Smith.

Rating: Null/10 (17 July 2004)

This film pretty much worked on a couple of levels with me. On one level it was a pretty good police thriller as Spooner is pretty much trying to solve the mystery as to why Sonny killed his creator and you pretty much are drawn into him trying to get to the bottom of it. Also, it works well as a social commentary. The underlying story is about how we have become so reliant on technology that we pretty much have become too reliant upon it. Who would have thought twenty five years ago that much of America would own computers and be hooked to the internet. The same could be said of robots. Even though they might not become as advanced as the robots in the film, we still might one day have robots in most households performing most menial tasks that we perform today. In fact, we do see robots performing a lot of tasks in many industries, especially automobile manufacturing. Unfortunately, the people in this film became too reliant on the robots and there is a danger that robots could take over a lot of jobs. All in all, this was a pretty decent film.