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Disliked this film because ...


... of the lack of plot twists.
... of the way only one of the women even tries to fight back.
... of the way Keanu doesn't even bruise where the one woman we see fight back hit him with an enormous radio/cassette. I had big bruises earlier this year and I was only hit by a hand.
... of the totally obvious product placement. Subtle it wasn't.
... of the music that seems to be a variation on the Dragnet theme. That seemed to trivialise the whole thing.
... the way Joel just seemed to shrug off his severe health problems as if they did not exist. I prefer programmes like Monk, where the lead character triumphs despite severe problems.

The acting was mostly good (am not sure what to make of Keanu), ditto the special effects. But what a waste of fossil fuel, all that dramatic fire for such a lousy script!
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>>... of the totally obvious product placement. Subtle it wasn't.

You must have felt as if you were being subjected to torture if you happened to see I, Robot.

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What bugged me was the car chase - they had a helicopter and they couldn't follow a crippled car that was on fire? The cops were also really 'bumbling' - I didn't see a single one try to co-ordinate the pursuit by radio. They were chasing a car in the city and they couldn't prevent it's escape with all that man-power?

I know that you have to 'suspend disbelief', but this was hardly billed as a 'fantasy-action-adventure' flick...

...as it turned out, it was nothing more than a 'by-the-numbers' thriller with an ending that was telegraphed about a third of the way in.

4 / 10.

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I actually GET migraines worse than the character in this movie and believe me ignoring them is the only way to go..otherwise you go live in a nice dark cave for the rest of your life or blow your brains out. There is no meds currently on the market that even touch the pain I'm in (and presumably the character was in) and you can't let crap like that stop your life or you're useless.

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