The movie's robots are curiously uninvolving as individuals, and when seen by the hundreds or thousands look like shiny chromium ants.
Robotics is "to make the robots seem more human."Īt this she is not very successful. Susan Calvin ( Bridget Moynahan), whose job at U.S. In many of these exploits he is accompanied by Dr. The movie makes Spooner into another one of those movie cops who insults the powerful, races recklessly around town, gets his badge pulled by his captain, solves the crime and survives incredible physical adventures. The director is Alex Proyas, whose great " Dark City" (1998) was also about a hero trying to make sense of the deceptive natures of the beings around him. While that does not speak highly for " 2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968), it is certain that the screenplay for this film, by Jeff Vintar and Akiva Goldsman, is not adult, complex or worthwhile, although it is indeed science fiction. According to the invaluable Wikipedia encyclopedia on the Web, Harlan Ellison and Asimov collaborated in the 1970s on an "I, Robot" screenplay, which, the good doctor said, would produce "the first really adult, complex, worthwhile science fiction movie ever made." It is peculiar that no one in the film knows that, especially since the film is "based on the book by Isaac Asimov." Would it have killed the filmmakers to credit Asimov?Īsimov's robot stories were often based on robots that got themselves hopelessly entangled in logical contradictions involving the laws. Campbell, the legendary editor of Astounding Science Fiction. Every schoolchild knows the laws were set down by the good doctor Isaac Asimov, after a conversation he had on Dec. Alfred Lanning ( James Cromwell), who, we are told, wrote the Three Laws. He has a deep-seated mistrust of robots, despite the famous Three Laws of Robotics, which declare above all that a robot must not harm a human being. Will Smith plays Spooner, a Chicago Police Department detective who doesn't think it's suicide.
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