I put off watching I, Robot for a long time because it didn't strike me as being at all faithful to Isaac Asimov's classic stories. It seemed to me that instead of the carefully nuanced, thoughtful stories of robots making sense of their clear-cut programmed morality in a world full of gray areas, the movie was just going to be a high-octane, no holds barred us vs. the evil killer robots shoot-'em-up with bullets flying everywhere.
My mind was somewhat put at ease when I saw that the film begins with a statement of the three Laws of Robotics, which form the core of the morality programmed into robots in Asimov's vision. Look here in two weeks for my detailed critique of the film.
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