Susan Calvin (Bridget Moynahan) - who retains the aspect of Calvin's personality, at first, of being more comfortable around robots than around humans. Alfred Lanning (nicely played in a virtual bit part by James Cromwell), with the help of a much glamorized Dr. He must investigate the suicide or murder of the man who invented the robots, Dr. Will Smith is a police detective, Del "Spoon" Spooner, but not at all a person like Elijah Baley. I, Robot seems like more conventional action oriented science fiction compared to those movies, and it did much better at the box office. The director of I, Robot, Alex Proyas, is well known for moody science fiction and fantasy, as in Dark City (which he co-wrote), The Crow, and Knowing. Indeed, the characterizations in them are perhaps the best in all of Asimov's works, probably because detective Elijah Baley, an agoraphobic Bible buff (though we otherwise see no hints of actual religion), contains a great deal of Asimov himself. These books are much superior to the earlier one. We also have The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun. I, Robot, however, is not Asimov's only robot book. The literary quality of these stories is dismal, and the characterizations, never strong in Asimov, are among the worst in all his books. I, Robot originally was a series of short stories, beginning in 1941, which Asimov then published together in 1950 with a brief framing story about the retirement of roboticist Susan Calvin.
Reviews of the movie that I saw never seemed to be familiar with the book. This could be better than a simple rendering of the book. However, it does something equally or even more interesting: We can see it as a commentary on Asimov, a response to him. So I got the message that the movie was not going to be faithful to Asimov. It is certainly not something that happens in the book after which the movie is named ( I, Robot, 1941, 1942, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1950).
The image of robots in rebellion, attacking humans, is something unthinkable and unknown in Isaac Asimov's robot books.
When I originally saw the previews for the movie I, Robot, I expected the worst. I, Robot - Movie & Asimov I, Robot - Movie & Asimov Fox, 2004
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