Absolutely worth seeing

Rating: 9/10 (21 December 2012)

Technology today is becoming increasingly advanced. Almost everyone constantly has a phone in their pocket, ready to do whatever they need. We use it to contact other people, look up information, watch a movie, or just play a game. Now with software like Apple's Siri, we can just tell them to do things. They can even communicate back to us. I just asked Siri how she was today, and she said, "I'm happy to be alive!" In I, Robot they predicted that this would be taken a step further. The setting of the movie is a futuristic society in the year 2035. In this society, an even better assistant has been created, robots. They communicate to humans much like Siri does, but instead of just finding helpful information or sending a text for you, they can physically assist you with almost anything.
They are equipped with an extremely advanced artificial intelligence. This intelligence can understand anything and everything you say to them. They can even learn, via the update that they receive wirelessly, much like technology today.
But something this advanced needs rules, so the robots are restricted by three laws. 1) A robot can never harm a human. 2) A robot must obey all human orders unless it conflicts with the first law. 3) A robot must protect itself unless it conflicts with the first two laws.
The laws are seemingly perfect. Then, the creator of robots, Dr. Lanning is killed. All but one believe it to be suicide. The one man who thinks he was murdered is a detective named Spooner. And more specifically he thinks he was murdered by a robot.
This is where the story takes off. Spooner goes on a wild chase to catch the robot and solve the mystery. The story takes some good twists and turns, especially at the end, and the characters turn out to be more deep than the explosion-filled commercials showed.
This movie is interesting and fun the whole way through. It keeps you interested, both in the action and the characters. If you get the opportunity to watch it, I would take it. It might scare you to see where technology is headed, but you'll still thoroughly enjoy it.