I,Robot; Will Smith's One Negative

Although it was not my intention to blog about movie reviews, I cannot refrain from stating my opinion on this subject. I recently watched the movie I,Robot. Never wavering as a Will Smith fan, I went into it with much anticipation; I expected nothing less than excellence from Will. However, I found myself sorely disappointed merely minutes into viewing.

The amount of advertisements placed throughout the show was unbelievable. There seemed to be no attempt to cover up the fact that they were trying to advertise the product; Smith spent more time in the first half of the movie talking about his Converses than developing the plot. The Audi symbol popped up more than five times, which was nowhere near the airtime the Converses got; flashes of the box, compliments on his shoes, footage of Smith's feet alone, etc. were constantly shown. The ads made the movie so unbearable I didn't know if it was worth it to continue watching.

However, I made it through to the end, and my overall conclusion is thus; I,Robot was a very good story idea, but it was delivered terribly. The advertisements alone ruined the movie for me, but it wasn't the only thing. The woman who played the main female role was a terrible casting choice. She attempted to portray the unbelievably cliche role of the pretty girl who's actually smart, proving her intelligence through seemingly advanced diction. Although she tried to surprise everyone and prove that she's more than a pretty face, she failed miserably. Her word choice was such that it was plainly obvious that she would never be using these sentences in real life; they sounded awkward when she spoke them. Most of her lines seemed as if the writer had simply taken a thesaurous and changed words in his script to sound more intelligent. However, he failed and his characters sounded like fools. Will's character even had a line pointing out her seeminginly intelligent word choices, that he couldn't understand what she was saying because her language was too advanced for him. I was very disappointed in Will for allowing the writers to make him look so unintelligent.

Also, the third 'rule' (one of three that were the basis of the plot) was worded so confusingly that I misinterperated it to mean the exact opposite of what it was supposed to mean. There were many aspects of the story that, if delivered differently, would have made I,Robot one of the top films of the year. However, that is not the case, and I am sorely disappointed to say that I have one notch against Will Smith.

I would also like to point out the ironic fact that I spent half of this post critisizing I,Robot for advertising, and I'm putting links to the products websites on the blog.