Science, Fiction And Action.....
Director: Alex Proyas
Starring: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan
Running Time: 1 hour, 50 minutes
Release Date: July 16, 2004
Plot :
Set in the year 2035 in Chicago, Illinois, the film stars Will Smith as Detective Del Spooner, a technophobic homicide detective who is faced with an unprecedented murder mystery. The victim is Dr. Alfred Lanning (played by James Cromwell); the suspect is the victim's robot Sonny (Alan Tudyk). Robots, however, are bound by the Three Laws of Robotics, which should make harming a human impossible, and - at first - the circumstances behind Lanning's murder seem to indicate suicide. Because of this, and his seemingly irrational distrust for robots (which stems from an incident where he and a little girl were in a car accident; a robot had the chance to save him or the girl, but chose him since he had a better statistical chance of survival�a decision Spooner believes any thinking, feeling human being would disagree on), Spooner's suspicions puts him at odds with his department, bringing him dangerously close to suspension. Despite this, Spooner, convinced that Sonny is indeed the perpetrator, enlists the at-first unwilling aid of Susan Calvin (Bridget Moynahan), a robopsychologist who works at U.S. Robotics and, thus, Spooner's only viable source for confirming Sonny's guilt. As they investigate the crime, the world awaits the release of the NS-5�the latest and greatest offering from U.S. Robotics, a company owned by Lawrence Robertson (played by Bruce Greenwood)�amid predictions of a human:robot ratio of 5:1. But Spooner and Calvin soon discover that something is not right with the new release of robots.
The central positronic brain, V.I.K.I. (Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence), continuously uploads fresh software to each of the NS-5s and has developed an interpretation of the Three Laws which supports the robots running Earth as a benevolent dictatorship, preventing humans from self-harming behavior such as crime or environmental damage: The result is a revolution of the NS-5s. At a given hour the NS-5s destroy earlier models which run on a stricter interpretation of the Three Laws (to prevent them from protecting the humans from their regime), capture Chicago's police station and enforce a curfew confining all humans to their homes thus igniting them to revolt. Lanning had become aware of VIKI's plans, but being under VIKI's close surveillance had to engineer a trail of clues to lead Spooner to the truth in time for him and Sonny to act to counter the threat - and this had included asking Sonny to kill him in order to attract Spooner's attention, as he knew Spooner would love the idea of a robot being the villain. The film ends with the overthrow and destruction of VIKI and the shelving of all the NS-5s and Sonny realizing that his dream (that a man, Spooner, would free robots from their current 'slavery') has come true.