Can you trust robots?
In 2004, Will Smith starred in a bright and shiny version of "Blade Runner" that sacrificed a hardcore sci-fi audience in favor of a very mainstream one. Smith rides a motorcycle, drives an Audi, wears very specific Chuck Taylors, and rocks one of those trenchcoats that seems like faux "Matrix" cosplay. In short, the film "I, Robot" was, at the time, marketed as a fairly safe, generic-looking sci-fi action movie, the kind of film that, in trailers, came across as the dumber sibling of "Minority Report" (2002) or "AI: Artificial Intelligence" (2001). Upon its release, "I, Robot" made a respectable amount at the box office, garnered mixed reviews, and pissed off generations of readers who loved Isaac Asimov.
But, surprisingly, 20 years later, amid a real-life AI crisis and existential questions about the nature of data and privacy, "I, Robot" has aged better than it probably should have. If viewed strictly analogously, this is a better sci-fi movie in 2024 than it was in 2004. READ MORE from Inverse
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