Not bad at all

Rating: Null/10 (17 August 2004)

Constrained as this movie is by the parameters of the high action cgi antics expected by moronic male adolescents with the attention span of fruit flys who form the main target market for Summertime blockbusters, this one was actually not bad.
Good source material of course; and unlike many who have contributed a comment, I thought the movie very true to Asimov's vision, even if not following exactly one of his stories. The dilemma and consequence of robot/human interaction is very well explored and will take me back to the stories; stories I have not read in nearly forty years.
And of course Will Smith was excellent. Will Smith is an intelligent adult man, and in this movie he is playing an intelligent adult man, something so rare in these sci-fi blockbusters as to require being favourably commented upon.
Incidentally, just a small point, but one that does bug me a bit. "I Robot" is not really a book. It is a compendium of short stories written over several years; so to say that the movie "does not follow the book" is a bit ludicrous.
I am probably completely wrong here, but it would not surprise me if the title wasn't originally even Asimov's, but rather a name suggested by an Editor at his Publishers.