Could have been exceptional...

Rating: 5/10 (21 January 2005)

"I, Robot" is OK, but I was really disappointed with it. Alex Proyas is a great director, The Crow and Dark City are great. He also used the exceptional talent of Weta Worksop and the brilliant motion capture and physical stand-in actors to create the CG robots, using the example of Andy Serkis' "gollum" in the Lord of the Rings. What a waste. The story is unoriginal and the robots are boring. He could have done so much more and done a bit more justice to Asimov's stories. There are so many images we've seen before, there was loads of Blade Runner in it, what a shadow of a film compared to that masterpiece. And even a reference to Star Wars with Will Smith and the robot both damaging their arms.
What a shame and a waste of money.
The Jerry Bruckheimer film "King Arthur" is not comparable to "I Robot". The story of King Arthur is not a work of fiction but a confused legend probably based on some actual events (a bit like the legend of the Trojan war). The accepted King Arthur legend is a combination of the story of some French medieval knights (Sir Lancelot was French) and historians think there may also have been a real "King" Arthur (a foreign mercenary leader) who helped the Ancient British tribes fight the outgoing Roman invaders and the incoming Anglo Saxon invaders early in the first millennium AD. The Jerry Bruckheimer film is based on a story which is more likely to be historically correct than any previous King Arthur film. Unfortunately, it's a terrible film.