Product: I, Robot [Region 2] (2004)
Rating: 4.0
Shades of 1984 and Planet of the Apes
Books aside, the movie stands up pretty well. Asimov hadenvisioned a 0th law (not mentioned in the movie) that robotsshould protect the human species from itself and over protectionof individual humans. The movie shows what happens when the0th law is taken to an extreme. The result is Big Brother robotsociety controlling humanity. The major deviation from Asimovis the robot created with the ability to ignore the 3 laws andthe downloads from the central USR computer (VIKI). At leastthe movie makes it easy to identify the unsafe robots by thered bellies. The robots don't really revolt against the 3 laws,they're obeying a higher law: the misguided "protection" ofhumanity. In other words, an orderly utopian world withoutviolence, suffering, poverty, etc. except when robots need tocause suffering or act violently for the greater good of society.Bridget Moynihan is great as robopsychologist Dr. Susan Calvin(one of the few characters from the books). Also, It is unclearexactly what role the CEO of USR supposedly has in the robottakeover.