Hate the writer, love the movie.

Rating: Null/10 (17 July 2004)

"I, Robot" is a lot better than you would think from the previews. The special effects are good, and the plot is not half bad. But the writing is awful, as one would expect from the writer of "Lost in Space" and "Batman & Robin". Why do people keep hiring this guy? The Hansel and Gretel thing is ridiculous, the whole parallel between prejudice against Blacks and prejudice against robots is like something out of a bad EC comic book, and the characterization is totally unbelievable and uninvolving. Needless to say, there is almost no relationship between the movie and the book. Why does Hollywood pay a lot of money for the rights to a classic novel, and then ignore all the things that made the novel a classic?
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