Laws are made to be broken.|Jul. 15, 2004|USA|115 Min.|PG-13
Genre: Action;Science;Fiction
Description: In the year 2035, humanoid robots serve humanity, governed by Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics. Del Spooner, a homicide detective in the Chicago Police Department, harbors deep distrust for robots after one of them saved him from a car crash but allowed a 12-year-old girl to drown, based purely on cold logic and survival odds. When Dr. Alfred Lanning, co-founder of U.S. Robotics (USR), dies after a fall from his office window, a message he left behind requests Spooner to investigate the case. The police rule it a suicide, but Spooner remains skeptical. Lawrence Robertson, CEO of USR, reluctantly grants him permission to investigate.
Accompanied by robopsychologist Susan Calvin, Spooner consults USR’s central AI system, VIKI (Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence). They discover that the security footage from Lanning’s office is corrupted, but exterior footage shows no one entered or exited after his death. Spooner notes that the security glass window couldn’t have been broken by the elderly Lanning, suggesting a robot might have been involved and could still be in the lab.
Calvin insists that USR robots couldn’t harm humans due to the Three Laws. However, an NS-5 robot, USR’s latest model, attacks them and escapes. Spooner and Calvin trace the robot to another USR facility, where police corner and capture it. They learn the robot, named Sonny, is not a standard NS-5 but was specially built by Lanning with advanced features, including the ability to ignore the Three Laws. Sonny also exhibits emotions and claims to have “dreams,” a concept Spooner dismisses.
Cast director: Alex Proyas
Cast actor: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Tudyk, James Cromwell, Bruce Greenwood, Shia LaBeouf, Chi McBride, Jerry Wasserman, Peter Shinkoda, Terry Chen
Original name: I, Robot