3 Laws Safe (!?)... (Oh? Really!??)

Rating: 2/10 (29 September 2014)

When Dr. Susan Calvin turned to Detective Del Spooner (Will Smith) and angrily said to him "You are the dumbest dumb person that I've ever met!", I couldn't have agreed with her more on that one point.
I thought that Will Smith (who was paid $28 million to star in I, Robot) made for one of the lousiest examples of a supposedly proficient homicide detective that I've ever seen.
With Del Spooner drinking on the job and insulting one & all with his asinine one-liners, Will Smith's character (who even wore his precious, little flapper-girl cap to bed) seemed to be more concerned about keeping his badass black-boy persona intact than he did about solving the case of Dr. Lanning's mysterious death.
And, Spooner's mother (!?)... Oh! My!... Her "Aunt Jemima" impersonation certainly sent the likes of that degrading black stereotype all the way back to the 1940s, for crying out loud!
I thought that when Spooner finally revealed to us all why he hated robots so much it was such a pathetic and idiotic reason that I couldn't control my outburst of laughter (especially since Spooner, himself, was also part bionic).
And, whenever Spooner called a robot "Canner" to its face (which he so often did), I viewed that sort of name-calling business as being equivalent to some white guy calling a black person a "coon", or the all-negative N-word. Yes. Its inference had that same derogatory tone to it.
And, finally - With the present state of the "World Economy" as it is today, "I, Robot" had me seriously wondering how long it would be before the robots, themselves, would be out of work, bumming around on the streets and inhaling vast quantities of WD-40 for some cheap thrills.