Best movie of the year?

Rating: 10/10 (7 August 2004)

2004 Has been a lame movie year. Undoubtfully I've encountered numerous big and small disappointments which unwrapped itself as a bad-movie-fear in my eye as a beholder of the big white projected screen. I remember myself seeing the spectacular trailers of films like Troy and Van Helsing, and I have to admit, I was getting really excited about these films. Then, when the time was finally there, and I could go see the movie... well, I guess you all know what my point is because you've all seen what I'm talking about. It was the biggest load of super expensive Hollywood crap! Then, a super trailer of Spider-man 2 came a long. I didn't really enjoyed the fist film and I was pretty sure I wouldn't like the second, but I needed to go and see it because the trailer looked totally whack and the reviews where all very praising about this one. Well, when I saw this 200 million dollar 100% all American no brainer last month, I just had enough of this all. And than the trailer of I, Robot came across...
Me being very septic as I walk towards the theater, tried not to expect anything of this, because I didn't want another disappointment...
I, Robot is without any doubt the best movie I've seen this year. This mingle of Terminator, Matrix and Minority Report absolutely did the trick for me. An outstandingly acting Will Smith gots thrown from left to right in this edge of your seat roller-coaster movie ride. Special effects were simply mind blowing and the story was more than descent enough to keep me interested for the whole 2 hours. I just don't understand why this film gets a score of not even 7 on IMDb and Spider-man get well into 8. It just doesn't feel right! I, Robot is as funny as it's smart and as spectacular as it's beautiful to watch. Intelligent entertaining and that's more than what we got from all previous multi million dollar movies this year. Will Smith's best one so far! Keep it up this way!
It's maybe hard to call this a Hollywood masterpiece because according to all the 'professional critics' this might be a bit too much from the commercial kitchen... but as a movie fan of all times and great DVD collector I dare to say: "This movie is amazing! a BIG FAT 9/10"