I love when I’ve forgotten the specifics of a movie since the first viewing but I remember the emotional impact it had.

It truly wasn’t my intention, but this movie, despite its (especially today) nigglingly abundant product placements, makes an excellent fiction accompaniment to The Corporation (hmm, if that in itself wasn’t a little fictional … gag hope hope).

This movie resembles Blade Runner (or my memory of it at least) and Harrison Ford wouldn’t have been out of place in this role, nor would any other decent actor, but Will Smith’s humour is for once much appreciated, at least at my end anyway. The wonder of it is that the character he’s playing is pretty straight. Spooner has such a grudge to bear against the robots, and his synthetic arm is such a perfect flaw in his argument. To me it’s screenwriting perfection, ,story perfection. Smith’s natural humour is pure icing on the cake of a thoroughly three dimensional character.

For a moment while watching this I had one of my “shoulda won the Oscar!” freakouts, is it just me who has these? The effects here are superb. On reflection, looking at the nominees that year (Spider-Man 2 won, Azkaban was the other), it was in damn good company. My mind still boggles at the seamlessness of these visuals, though.

Just, please, dumbass executives, don’t make a sequel.

3rd August 2004:

Even though I, Robot is similar to a whole heap of movies (Bicentennial Man, Minority Report, The Matrix and Blade Runner spring most immediately to mind), I thought it was pretty damn amazing. I was hooked for the whole duration; moved by Sonny; wowed by the effects big-time.

I really can’t think of anything bad to say about the movie. This is one of those perfect blockbuster movies that don’t come along very often.

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