I, Robot
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: July 16, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
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19
Mixed:
18
Negative:
1
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60
The New York TimesDana Stevens
Lacks both the intellectual rigor and the soulful sublimity of "A.I.," but it nonetheless allows some genuine ideas and emotions to pop up amid the noise and clutter. Read full review
60
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
While not a classic by any means, is still a mostly entertaining experience. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Although Sonny is computer generated, Tudyk supplied his voice and body language -- provides the story's emotional core, an irony Asimov would surely have appreciated. Read full review
60
TimeRichard Corliss
In the end, I, Robot is just an assembly-line product of a not very advanced model. Read full review
60
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
A cluttered, awkward blockbuster that's just smart enough to get itself into trouble. Read full review
50
Film ThreatRick Kisonak
Proyas creates a futurescape that's snazzy in a “Blade Runner” lite sort of way and one or two of the film's effects are eye poppers. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyWalter Chaw
Proyas merely assembles a mess of spare parts from better movies. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Performances, plot and pacing are as mechanical as the hard-wired cast. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Impressive for Patrick Tatopoulos's production design but depressive for the juiceless story.
50
VarietyTodd McCarthy
A humans vs. robots saga that feels machine-made, I, Robot looks to have been assembled from the spare parts of dozens of previous sci-fi pictures. Read full review
50
SlateDavid Edelstein
It walks and talks and moves very fast, but it never lives. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
The film works best as a kind of mindless, action-packed B-movie. But on the A-level at which recent science fiction/fantasy films operate -- meaning the "Spider-Man," "Harry Potter" and "Terminator" series -- this movie falls woefully short. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy Burr
A stylish, watchable, very familiar future-cop action thriller. What was once original is now almost completely derivative. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The plot is simple-minded and disappointing, and the chase and action scenes are pretty much routine for movies in the sci-fi CGI genre. The robots never seem to have the heft and weight of actual metallic machines, and make boring villains. Read full review
50
PremiereAaron Hillis
If you subtracted from the story and style components recycled from landmark sci-fi films of Hollywood past, you’d be left with Will Smith wisecracking over a box of unformatted floppies. I, Unimpressed. Read full review
50
SalonStephanie Zacharek
I, Robot strives to be so many things that it ultimately falls away to nothing, a heap of expensive metal parts. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesManohla Dargis
More disturbing, yet another robot, or maybe two, seems to have written a Hollywood script and hijacked a major studio production. Given the film's assembly-line screenplay and mechanistic storytelling, no other explanation seems viable. Certainly no one with a heartbeat or taste would blow so much talent, time and resources on such rubbishy writing. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
The film’s accumulation of unnecessary complications, bad visual choices, one completely superfluous character (LaBeouf), and tonally inappropriate quips makes us distractedly ponder the limits of human rather than artificial intelligence. Read full review
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