Metacritic reviews

Once this movie gets going, it works, and it works well. It has a slow buildup, but its final third manages to generate some eye-popping thrills.

It's a high-tech thriller that really works.

Less ambitious than "Blade Runner" but more coherent than "Artificial Intelligence: A.I.," which it vaguely resembles, I, Robot is best during homely moments when Smith shows his human side.

For its first two acts this flashy vehicle is an anodized titanium streamline baby. Then comes a robot rumble that brings the action to a crashing halt.

A routine Will Smith cop-on-the-hunt thriller at heart, I, Robot lacks imaginative excitement.

Proyas merely assembles a mess of spare parts from better movies.

Performances, plot and pacing are as mechanical as the hard-wired cast.

Impressive for Patrick Tatopoulos's production design but depressive for the juiceless story.

A humans vs. robots saga that feels machine-made, I, Robot looks to have been assembled from the spare parts of dozens of previous sci-fi pictures.

It walks and talks and moves very fast, but it never lives.