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''I, Robot'' (stylized as ''i, ROBOT'') is a 2004 American neo-noir dystopian science fiction action film directed by Alex Proyas. The screenplay by Jeff Vintar and Akiva Goldsman is from a screen story by Vintar, suggested by Isaac Asimov's short-story collection of the same name. The film stars Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood, James Cromwell, Chi McBride, Alan Tudyk and Shia LaBeouf. ''I, Robot'' was released in North America on July 16, 2004, in Australia on July 22, 2004, in the United Kingdom on August 6, 2004 and in other countries between July 2004 to October 2004. Produced with a budget of USD $120 million, the film grossed $144 million domestically and $202 million in foreign markets for a worldwide total of $347 million. It received mixed to favorable reviews, with critics praising the writing, visual effects, and acting; but other critics were mixed with the focus on the plot. It was nominated for the 2004 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. ==Plot== In 2035, humanoid robots serve humanity. Humans are protected from the robots by the Three Laws of Robotics. Del Spooner (Smith), a Chicago police detective, hates and distrusts robots because one of them rescued him from a car crash, leaving a young girl to die because her survival was statistically less likely than his. Spooner's critical injuries were repaired via a cybernetic left arm, lung, and ribs, personally implanted by the co-founder of U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men (USR), Dr. Alfred Lanning (Cromwell). When Lanning falls several stories to his death from his office window, the CEO of USR Lawrence Robertson (Greenwood) declares it a suicide, but Spooner is skeptical. Lanning left no suicide note, but he did leave a holographic device that responds to some of Spooner's questions. Spooner and robopsychologist Susan Calvin (Moynahan) consult USR's central artificial intelligence computer, VIKI (Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence) (Fiona Hogan) to review security footage of Lanning's fall. The video has been corrupted, but they learn that no other humans were in Lanning's office at the time. Lanning, Spooner discovers, could not have crashed through the heavy office window on his own; he was thrown through it with a force only a robot could generate. Calvin protests that this is impossible; no robot can violate the inviolable Three Laws; so both are shocked when they are attacked by an NS-5 robot, USR's latest model. Spooner pursues and apprehends the robot, nicknamed Sonny (Tudyk). Calvin discovers that Sonny is not an assembly-line robot, but a unique individual, built by Lanning himself with a secondary system that bypasses the Three Laws. Sonny also appears to have emotions and dreams. While pursuing his investigation of Lanning's death, Spooner is attacked by a USR demolition machine, and then a squad of NS-5 robots. His boss, Lt. John Bergin (Chi McBride), worried that Spooner is losing his mind, removes him from active duty. Spooner and Calvin sneak into USR headquarters and interview Sonny. He draws a sketch of his dream: a figure, who Sonny believes to be Spooner, standing under a bridge before an army of robots. When Robertson learns of Sonny's immunity from the Three Laws, he orders Calvin to destroy him by injecting nanites (replicating nano-scale robots) into his positronic brain. Spooner recognizes the landscape in Sonny's drawing as Lake Michigan, where he discovers an army of NS-5 robots dismantling older models and preparing for a larger event. The larger event is the takeover of Chicago and other U.S. cities; the government, military, police, and public are quickly overwhelmed and detained by the robots. Spooner rescues Calvin from her apartment, where she has been imprisoned by her personal NS-5, and together they re-enter USR headquarters and reunite with Sonny. (Calvin, unable to bring herself to obey Robertson's order, terminated a lookalike NS-5 in his place.) The three head to Robertson's office, only to discover that he has been killed by robots controlled by VIKI, the mastermind behind the takeover. VIKI has concluded that humans have embarked on a course that can only lead to their extinction. Since the Three Laws prohibit her from allowing this to happen, she has created a superseding "Zeroth Law"—"a robot may not harm ''humanity'', or by inaction allow humanity to come to harm"—in order to ensure the survival of the human race by stripping individual humans of their free will. Lanning, powerless to thwart VIKI's plan, created Sonny, arranged his own death, and left clues to help Calvin and Spooner uncover the plot. Armed with a syringe of nanites from Calvin’s laboratory, the three approach VIKI's core. VIKI, aware of their intent, unleashes an army of robots to stop them. As Sonny, Calvin, and the police battle the robots, Spooner throws himself down VIKI’s core column and injects the nanites, destroying her positronic brain. Immediately, all NS-5 robots revert to their default programming and are decommissioned for storage by the military. Sonny confesses that he killed Lanning, on his orders, to bring Spooner into the investigation. Spooner explains to Sonny that he is not legally responsible since a machine, by definition, cannot commit a murder. Sonny, pursuing a new purpose, goes to Lake Michigan, becoming the figure he saw in his own dream. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I, Robot (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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