John Lindal’s Blog

I, Robot

FX showed I, Robot this weekend. It was much better than I expected. The trailers that I had seen all focused on the action, and while there was certainly plenty of it, they did actually weave a decent detective story around it. I’m not a huge Asimov fan, but I do know the Three Laws, and the movie’s interpretation of them was not unreasonable. The product placement, however, rivaled that of Return of the Killer Tomatoes in shamelessness, though surely not in quantity