...Law No. 3: All groundbreaking, intellectually challenging classic science-fiction stories will be reduced to ludicrous, cliché-spewing, bullet-spraying, thinly veiled imitations of "Bad Boys II."

At least, that's what happened to Isaac Asimov's brilliant collection of short stories, "I, Robot." Personally, I'm glad Asimov is dead. It spares him from having to see his provocative ideas mauled, masticated and spit out as this substandard Will Smith action-hero vehicle.

Yes, Asimov's stories would be hard to translate to the screen faithfully, but this film runs completely counter to the spirit of those tales. Asimov was tired of the standard technology-goes-amok yarns, and came up with the idea of machines governed by unbreakable, built-in laws of robotics that prevented them from harming humans. His robots and human characters were challenged in intriguing and prescient ways by the inherent tensions those laws presented...

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