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I hadn’t heard much about this movie going into it, other than the teaser trailer from a few months ago advertising the NS5 as your new home companion. I generally try to avoid watching previews for movies, because I think they ruin the plot of the movie by summarizing the entire script into 2 minutes. What’s the point in watching the whole movie after you already know everything that happens?

Anyway, I didn’t go into the movie with any expectations of it being good or bad, though the chances of it being bad were high, because futuristic movies are easy to make cheesy and unbelievable. I haven’t read any of Isaac Asimov’s books, but I used to read a lot of other science fiction books, so I’m pretty familiar with the general plots they use.

Only a few minutes into the movie, you are treated with a shot of Will Smith’s ass. I don’t really see how this shot was entirely necessary, because he was standing in the shower, but there was no shower curtain. Who takes a shower with no shower curtain? But if you always wanted to see Will Smith’s Ass, go see this movie!

I thought the story was good, and though it predictably involved the end of the world and the en-slavery of mankind, there were enough twists to keep it interesting. It exposes you to some interesting ideas of what the future could be like, and possible moral dilemmas that will have to be faced as robotics and artificial intelligence progress to the state they are shown in the movie. And according to the film, this will all happen by 2035. At first I thought this would be impossible, but then I thought about what was going on in the 1970’s, and how far we’ve come since then, and it seems a lot more likely. However, all the cars fly in the movie, and the entire infrastructure of the cities have changed, which I think will be the biggest challenge. There are still people buying used cars from the 1970’s today, and those cars just wouldn’t be possible in the infrastructure and roads depicted in the movie. But perhaps since everything is made by robots and they don’t use gas, cars are much cheaper in the future.

The animation of the robots was extremely good I thought, especially the human-like facial animation of the main robot Sonny. The other special effects were top-notch as well, and in fact so good that I didn’t even think about them. Many times in movies I note the special effects and think how good or bad they were, but in this one they blended into the physical aspect of the world so well that I didn’t even pay any attention to them, which is what special effects try to achieve, so congratulations to the special effects team.

The very end of the movie is a little puzzling, as I don’t really know what is supposed to happen, but I won’t go into details because I don’t want to ruin the movie. I can’t really tell if they’re trying to set it up for a sequel, or simply leaving the ending of the movie up to your imagination.

Overall the movie was great. Good story, great effects, and surprisingly, quite a lot of laughs.

Rating: 5/5