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I, Robot

2004

Alex Proyas

Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood, Chi McBride ...

6.2

85,695

Sci-Fi. Thriller Set in a future Earth (2035 A.D.) where robots are common assistants and workers for their human owners, this is the story of "robotophobic" Chicago Police Detective Del Spooner's (Smith) investigation into the murder of Dr. Miles Hogenmiller, who works at U.S. Robotics (run by Greenwood), in which a robot, Sonny (Tudyk), appears to be implicated, even though that would mean the robot had violated the Laws of Robotics, which is ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"[It] is fabulous mental escape. It's fun and playful, rather than dark and foreboding."	POS
United States	Richard Corliss Time	"In the end, 'I, Robot' is just an assembly-line product of a not very advanced model."	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The plot is simple-minded and disappointing, and the chase and action scenes are pretty much routine for movies in the sci-fi CGI genre (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"A humans vs. robots saga that feels machine-made, 'I, Robot' looks to have been assembled from the spare parts of dozens of previous sci-fi pictures"	NEU
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"There's a provocative and visionary side to this free adaptation of Isaac Asimov's SF classic"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Lacks both the intellectual rigor and the soulful sublimity of 'A.I.', but it nonetheless allows some genuine ideas and emotions to pop up amid the noise and clutter"	NEU
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"There are awkward plot patches and you'll have to tolerate Will Smith at full strength (...) but this summer picture has a brain as well as muscles (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A good-looking but ultimately inert movie with a feeble non-ending that gave me a pain in all the diodes down my left side (...) Jeff Vintar's script never tests the IQ of its target demographic (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"Had the film been based on Asimov's stories, rather than merely 'suggested by' them, Proyas might have achieved the intellectual heft missing from his stylish 1998 cult favorite 'Dark City'."	NEU
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"The film works best as a kind of mindless, action-packed B-movie. But on the A-level at which recent science fiction/fantasy films operate (...) this movie falls woefully short"	NEU

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