Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics are used as the philosophically interesting starting point of what you might hope is a Kubrikesque meditation on sentience, but Will Smith's Detective Spooner, investigating what might be murder committed by a robot, is a wise-cracking action hero of a distinctly Schwarzenegger type ("Control, Alt, Delete, A.I. mofo," he doesn't say but very well could as he sends a bullet through yet another metallic skull); although the flimsily plotted action garnered an Academy Award nomination for its special effects, it is hard to work out exactly what is happening in many of the cgi-heavy scenes.
★★☆☆☆
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