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  I, Robot
Director: Alex Proyas Plot: Del Spooner (really?) investigates the murder of a man apparently by the robots he created. But this cannot be, the robots cannot harm humans, it is against their programming. Me smells a rotten egg....
Writer: Jeff Vintar
Starring: Will Smith
  Alan Tudyk
James Cromwell
Genre: Action Cert: Critic -
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The Fresh Prince of Bel Air is kicking it thirty one years into the future where the Robot is now the oppressed minority. Smith plays Detective Spooner who has had some sort of incident in his past that has made him hate the machines that invade every part of his life, and left him with a creaky shoulder and an unexplained need to sleep with a gun (WTF?).

We pick up with him as he wakes from his dream of the aforementioned incident and gets straight into some product placement, he slaps on some classic r’n’b on his JVC stereo, to pump some Iron too, and showing that he hasn’t actually stopped going to the gym since ALI. Smith is one buff mo-fo Giving us one of our first inclinations Muhammad Ali is not happy in a futuristic world he then heads of to work with a nice pair of vintage 2004 converse baseball boots.

And also giving me the right hump, just don’t like horse shenanigans like this in movies. I mean we’ve been in the cinema for about five minutes and already we have been blatantly advertised too. Maybe this is the future of movies as budgets continue to be absolutely ridiculous, maybe soon we can go and see Will Smith in Nike’s adaptation of Othello!!!! Muthay Fuckay!

On his way out he abuses a Fed-Ex delivery-bot (more freaking product placement) and at this point I am beginning to dislike this character and I’m ceasing to think of Will Smith and all the previous incarnations I have watched him over use his natural charisma. I’m thinking solid performance from Smith, hope this continues. After some gentle robot abuse on his way to work Spooner pops into his office only to be confronted by Cliché Police Captain. Anyway the story picks up when Spooner receives a phone call from a dead guy. Weird eh! Anyway he gets to the site of the dead guy and finds him standing over his dead self answering questions. It’s a Hologram see. Clever eh? M Night Shalaman could only come up with ghosts! This has holograms! Hmmmm. So Dr Dude who invented these Robots that Spooner hates so much has plummeted to his Doom, why call Spooner? He is prejudiced. Maybe that’s why. Know we get to meet two new characters. Thank god. If it wasn’t for the effects and style of this film I would have left by now! What we need is the love interest and the “baddy”, oh look here they come now! How handy. The interesting point of this film is that nobody is likeable in it. I would sum up now, but I don’t want to cause the coolest guy in the film is away to come in.

HELLO SONNY.

This robot dude, possible murderer and general kick ass domestic robot is fantastic. The effects they used on this little fella are amazing and the voice acting is superb. He is unique, an individual and he saves this movie. This character worked so well for me I  forgot that he was no more real than Gollum. From this point till the closing act a decent mystery/thriller kicks in with some nice ideas and some decent execution from all involved. But and this is a huge Ali Cook sized butt, it all goes horribly wrong, stylistically in the last quarter. I mean it turns into a straight out Matrix Revolution rip-off. Very, very disappointing. To much action not enough brains. Look basically this movie is a whole bunch of clichés and disappointments so don’t get your hopes up like I did okay. Don’t let that promising mid-rift distract you from the fact that the beginning was flat chested and the end is like a big old pair of cottage cheese thighs. Do go and see this years robot action movie, don’t go expecting anything more! Or else you will leave with a  sour taste in your mouth, like you just had to spend the last two hours of your life performing oral maintenance on Ali’s appendage! I just don’t like it much.