Brikar

I'm serious. I went in expecting to get nothing more out of it than some good robot effects. But I got more. Smith was genuinely funny at times, I was surprised there. His reason for disliking robots, I thought, was well-done and well-played. The twist about his injuries was... interesting. I'm not sure if I like the way that ended up, but I do think it was necessary. A lot of stuff is fairly predictable - you'll see it coming a mile away, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's bad. In all, this was an enjoyable 2 hours.

But what really surprised me were the scenes with Sonny, the robot (played amazingly well by Alan Tudyk of "Firefly"). He was just excellent. Every scene he was in was great. I only wish there was more.

The only real problem with the movie is that it glosses over a lot of stuff...



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Like the NS-5 robots destroying the earlier versions because the earlier ones would protect the humans. We never really saw them try, so Smith's conclusion as to the NS-5 reasoning seems a little like a jump. I'd like to explore that.

Or the humans fighting the robots. We got VERY little of this. Essentially waht you see in the trailers is what happens - the robots bust into the police station, we see a few shots of the humans fighting back (and Chi McBride's badass captain blowing one away in slow-motion with a shotgun) and then when we come back to them, the robots have them surrounded in the middle of the station! I'd like to explore that.

And the idea that the government wouldn't respond to the threats because USR has all the big contracts? Please. There should have been troops marching in the streets! We just didn't see anything like that, so we have to be given some kind of explanation, but that feels cheap. I've always been told that good script-writing SHOWS instead of TELLS.

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