Welcome to a world where humans and robots live together. The year is 2035, and robots have become a part of our everyday lives. They are programmed with the three laws, which have been a standard for robotic psyche. However, one cop has brutal distrust towards robots and has been mocked by many for treating them this way. His name is Detective Spooner (Will Smith) and he lives in a apartment that is basically inclined to the early 21st century.
A side note: The Terminator was set in 1984. This movie shows how the future would have appeared if Skynet were obliterated from existence.
This movie is loosely based on a short story of the same name. It retains a few of the characters from the book, but the story itself is more original and has little to nothing to do with the short stories themselves.
Dr. Lanning has been found dead, said to have committed suicide. Dr. Lamming pioneered a new design for a robot NC-5 which looks more human than its predecessor. The detective investigates this and assumes that he could not have been capable of this act, seeing how surveillance data has been corrupted and the glass panels were designed to withstand large forces. Spooner works alongside Dr. Calvin (Bridget Moynahan), and they both find something they least expected in a room where the doors were sealed shut.
Calvin is a type of scientist that throws a large chunk of exposition in words that typically Will Smith has trouble trying to interpret. She thinks that big words are easier for her than simpler ones. She talks like a robot herself, feels for one seeing how she flinches at any threat dealt towards a robot, and affiliates herself with one.
Speaking of simple, this plot dwells on searching for answers to why Lanning killed himself. That answer seems so vague that I have no choice but to just accept it. In addition, Spooner has to follow the path in a manner as stated in a children's story book, Hansel & Gretel: follow a trail of breadcrumbs. A series of clues are laid out right from the laboratory where Lanning left the book.
So that robot is named Sonny (voiced by Alan Tudyk). He has been programmed with human emotions. He is just one of the thousands of NC-5 models ready for distribution. He has dreams, " can turn a canvass into a beautiful masterpiece", and show emotions towards any accusation that Spooner throws at him. But can he lie as well as tell the truth? Listening to his dialogue can boil it all down.
So why does Spooner resent robots? His past experience illustrates that robots are incapable of prioritizing human life. One twelve-year-old girl was drowning but still struggling, while Spooner was in a situation where he could still breath and needed a robot to save the preteen. It was suggested that the robot chose Spooner over the girl because Spooner had a higher chance of survival than the girl, even if phyiscal evaluation would have been a course of action that would have saved her life. Instead it resorts to mathematical evaluation, which does have Spooner distrust the robots' compliance to the three laws: it can be assessed that the robot actually broke the first and second law, which then has Spooner doubt reliance on such machines.
Dr. Lanning has been found dead, said to have committed suicide. Dr. Lamming pioneered a new design for a robot NC-5 which looks more human than its predecessor. The detective investigates this and assumes that he could not have been capable of this act, seeing how surveillance data has been corrupted and the glass panels were designed to withstand large forces. Spooner works alongside Dr. Calvin (Bridget Moynahan), and they both find something they least expected in a room where the doors were sealed shut.
Calvin is a type of scientist that throws a large chunk of exposition in words that typically Will Smith has trouble trying to interpret. She thinks that big words are easier for her than simpler ones. She talks like a robot herself, feels for one seeing how she flinches at any threat dealt towards a robot, and affiliates herself with one.
Speaking of simple, this plot dwells on searching for answers to why Lanning killed himself. That answer seems so vague that I have no choice but to just accept it. In addition, Spooner has to follow the path in a manner as stated in a children's story book, Hansel & Gretel: follow a trail of breadcrumbs. A series of clues are laid out right from the laboratory where Lanning left the book.
So that robot is named Sonny (voiced by Alan Tudyk). He has been programmed with human emotions. He is just one of the thousands of NC-5 models ready for distribution. He has dreams, " can turn a canvass into a beautiful masterpiece", and show emotions towards any accusation that Spooner throws at him. But can he lie as well as tell the truth? Listening to his dialogue can boil it all down.
So why does Spooner resent robots? His past experience illustrates that robots are incapable of prioritizing human life. One twelve-year-old girl was drowning but still struggling, while Spooner was in a situation where he could still breath and needed a robot to save the preteen. It was suggested that the robot chose Spooner over the girl because Spooner had a higher chance of survival than the girl, even if phyiscal evaluation would have been a course of action that would have saved her life. Instead it resorts to mathematical evaluation, which does have Spooner distrust the robots' compliance to the three laws: it can be assessed that the robot actually broke the first and second law, which then has Spooner doubt reliance on such machines.
If you love to see how a world would look if robots lived among us, this is your movie. If you also like to see what would happen if they turned against us disobeying the three laws, this is one sci-fi action film is just for you. Do watch out for various product placements that are just being advertised in this movie so openly that this film was more intent of being turned into a series of adverts instead of a film based on a written material that so many have little to no knowledge about. With this littered in the film, we have to watch Spooner suffer from various malfunctions in one machine to another and end up calling himself a "malfunction magnet."
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