I,Robot
*no spoilers ahead

 

All in all, I really enjoyed myself watching this movie. No matter what movies Will Smith acts in, he will always be cool, or make the movies cool anyway.

....well...maybe with the exception of Men in Black II which was really extremely shitty, but that's besides the point.

The animation in the movie was pretty much flawless, the acting was superb and the storyline was excellent. Did I mention that the animation was flawless? No, I was wrong. It was fucking brilliant. If you haven't seen the movie, watch out for the Sonny fight scene near the end and just remember that it was all animated.


A character isn't completely cool unless he's with a leather jacket.


With that out of the way, lets start with the criticism. Wait, you didn't expect me to write a page full of compliments did you?

This movie is possibly the biggest sell-out I have ever seen. It's not quite as bad as how maddox described it, but it's pretty damn close. I counted at least 5-10 USELESS scenes, dedicated to nothing but advertising the audi.

Example : Car driving up to Lanning's house. Entire 2-3 minutes just looking at the car at possibly every single angle you can think of, except from underneath....oh yeah and the audi badge.

In addition to the audi, there is also the obvious obvious advertisement for Converse shoes. It's so bad that it's actually pretty sickening to watch Will Smith add a couple of lines into his dialogue because the sponsors demand for it.

There were a whole lot more things like the JVC Player, the beers...but the most prominent by far was the Audi and the shoes. The damn converse shoes. He even tells you the exact model, "Vintage 2004". Useless dialogue fitted in script? I think so too.


And then, after thinking that there can't be any more bullshit advertisements right? I mean, they have already handed us with starters, main course, dessert plates full of bullshit. Boy, was I wrong.

Finally after watching all the converse adds, audi...audi....audi...audi red backlights....more audi, you then get a big BITCHSLAP across the face when you find out that the Robot Corporation is called U.S ROBOTICS. In case you don't know, this is USR

I was surprised Will Smith didn't suddenly break into a song, drink a cup of coffee and go "MMmm. Nescafe" because he was pretty much doing it the whole movie.

There, i'm don...Oh wait. I'm not.

Not many useless dialogues in the movie except for one. It's where Will Smith is in Lanning's room and talks about the possibility that Robots can harm humans. Calvin then shoots down the theories by simply stating the three laws, and then Will Smith ends it by saying "Laws are meant to be broken".

I sat there, for 5 bloody minutes, waiting for him to think of a clever way through the 3 laws that allows a robot to harm a human, and he just ends it by saying something so incredibly cliché that it made me fall out of my seat. Why didn't he say that laws are meant to be broken after she stated the first law? What was the fucking point in wasting 5 minutes of my time with that useless dialogue? The only law the robots were breaking in the first place is the first one, so why?! WHY? sigh

Well, you might realise that the 2 problems I have with movie isn't really much. 1) The adverts and 2) That really useless dialogue. These two problems aren't really much, and the movie does in fact own. Strongly suggest you catch this movie, and don't feel surprised if you feel the sudden urge to go out and get a new pair of converse shoes along with an Audi