It's not great, but not for the reasons you suspect. The tag at the end says something like, "Suggested by the works of Isaac Asimov" and that's as close as they get.
If you're looking for a faithful, or even a shoddy adaptation of Asimov's work, stay home. If you go in thinking, as I did, that this was a future world where robots were designed using ideas from old science fiction stories ("How should we program these things?" "Hey, ever read Asimov? Maybe we should...") you might enjoy yourself.
There are plot holes aplenty. There is a surprising amount of philosophy. Not on a Matrix level but more than, say, Independence Day. There are reasons for robots to possess the three laws and still be seen attacking humans. And the cgi robots are very emotive.
My main problems with it involve the same sort of fast detecting that bug me in lots of other movies ("There's a clue. It can only mean one thing! There's another clue, right where I though it would be!"), and the relative ease of movement Spooner and Calvin have during the last act. But overall I enjoyed it. Some decent performances all around.
Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
Thought the robot Sonny's voice sounded familiar but couldn't place it, so I checked at IMDB. Alan Tudyk! "Wash" from Firefly! Good for him, I hope his career takes off.
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
I hope Serenity is a rousing success and spawns a trilogy.
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