Yeah, I hate to say it, but I had much higher hopes for this movie. I mean, Will Smith as a flippant flatfoot. Seen it done way too many times in way too many different settings for this to feel any better. I don't even have to see it to know that it's just another generic cop movie with graphics and robots thrown in for good measure. I thought this was going to be a movie where Will Smith played a scientist and it was going to be about the revolution/morality of robotics/AI. Then I saw the trailer. Everything about it screamed "generic cop movie!!!!" A la Bad Boys, Wild Wild West, Men In Black, we've seen it all done before, and somehow, this just doesn't seem much better. At all. Thank God for bittorrent.
It just seems that every actioner that Smith is in has the plot of: Flippant flatfoot chasing _________. Investigates ________. Public finds ________ to be innocent, flatfoot pursues further, captain yells at flatfoot, flatfoot loses badge, depressing 5 minutes where flatfoot drowns himself in _______. Hot girl that has little story and flatfoot have sex. Flatfoot loses girl. Break in case. Firefight. Generic action sequence/chase. Bigger firefight. Denoument. Flatfoot gets job back, is hero once again. Gets girl. 200 million dollars at boxoffice. #1 first weekend, #7 next. DVD after 6 months. Huge first weekend DVD rentals and buys. Downhill with the rest of the cop thrillers. Becomes somebody's "best.movie.ever." Wins MTV movie award for Best Generic Action Scene.