Sixty years later a bad script that had been floating around Hollywood called “Hardwired” was picked up for a movie. Around the same time the studio aquired the rights to “I, Robot”. They tacked the I, Robot name onto the bad script and gave it to a director who is best known for making movies out of comic books.

Unfortunately summer blockbusters have the advantage that the audience has such low expectations that they don’t care if the movie is so bad that the robots even glow red when “evil”.

Save your money and go see Spiderman. At least it started out as a comic book.

As everyone is no doubt aware, the common theme of most of Asimov’s robot stories is exploring the boundaries of his Three Laws of Robotics. The laws seem simple enough, until you really try to pin down exactly what constitutes “harm”.

Although I expect Asimov himself probably could have done better, the plot of the film actually does follow in his footsteps. They also managed to work in enough special effects and violence to appeal to the mainstream action film audience.