I'm impressed

Rating: Null/10 (18 July 2004)

I have a new movie to slip into my top 10. I, Robot was incredible. The Story, The Acting, The Direction, and the Visuals were all amazing.
Far from mindless... this movie is a thinker... the implications at the end of the movie will be the seed of many intelligent debates.
The trailers were (especially the first ones) completely misleading about this movie.
If you like "smart" movies... see this one. It is perfectly balanced... not too preachy... enough humor to keep it from being cold... drama that makes you start to draw tears, but then backs off... a mystery that does not give itself away too soon... the CGI blended into the film in such a way that the graphics pulled you into this world instead of away from it.
Sonny, the CGI Robot star played by Alan Tudyk, in my mind, surpassed Golem... Golem acted exactly as you expected a deranged evil guy to act (don't get me wrong, I loved Golem)... but when Sonny talked, he surprised you.
Sonny is one of the best characters that I have ever experienced in any book or movie. How this character pulls off being completely deep and complicated, yet have that child-like innocence is a stroke of genius.
I have to give the Writers, Proyas, and Alan Tudyk's spot on performance, many Kudos...
The purists that were trashing the movie before it even came out were completely wrong.
In my opinion... it was Asimovian in that it takes the 3 laws, sets up a mystery as to how the laws can seem to be circumvented, and then when the mystery is solved it causes us to question if or how humanity can overcome it's own short-sightedness to be able to responsibly deal with our own technological progress.
I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.
--Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not " Eureka !" but "That's funny... "
--Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
--Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-92)
Thank You Mr. Proyas.