I, Robot

I, Robot (2004)

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Corrected entry: In the scene where Del Spooner and Calvin are shooting the NS5s at the high platform, with the gangways. Spooner loses his automatic machine gun, and the camera focuses on the gun falling, but apparently the strap attached to the machine gun can wrap around a thick wire, resulting in the gun hanging there. Seconds later Spooner is able to pick up the gun without detaching or cutting the strap. (01:37:35 - 01:38:10)

Correction: The strap of the gun just caught on its own handle. If you look closely you can see that the strap is just on the bottom of the gun's handle and would be easily pulled away by just moving the gun.

Corrected entry: In the beginning of one scene Spooner tells all the robots not to move, but when he is against the floor and Sonny leaves, a lot of the robots come towards him asking if they can help him. the point is that what they did conflicted with the Second Law, and what they did was not the First Law so why did they do it? (00:24:30)

Correction: The robots simply saw the possiblity that Spooner needed help - whether he really did or not. The first law "A robot cannot harm a human or, through inactivity, allow a human to be harmed," is so strongly programmed into the robots that the mere possibility eliminates any orders gave them under the Second Law. Therefore, they moved.

Zwn Annwn

Corrected entry: When Spooner, Sonny and Calvin come to the stairway in the USR building, it's stated they have to climb around 208 floors to reach the top floor. While Sonny, being a robot, would have no trouble with this surely Spooner and Calvin would be utterly exhausted by the time they got to the top yet they don't even appear to be winded.

Correction: Because time elapses in between when Spooner, Calvin, and Sonny are getting from the bottom of the building to the top, they could have taken multiple breaks to avoid being winded.

Corrected entry: In the beginning of the Ovaltine Cafe scene, the TV on the wall shows the d.o.b and d.o.d of Lanning. It says 1921-2015, but at the beginning of the film the year is shown as 2035. According to the TV Lanning would have been 94 years old when he died, but he was said to be 114 years old.

Correction: It reads "1921-2035".

Bishop73

Correction: There are no hover cars in this future. Just regular cars with wheels (spherical wheels, as we see in the later chase, enabling the cars to move in multiple directions). No mistake here.

Brad

Corrected entry: When Spooner comes to save his young friend from the rioting robots, he tells the girl to step off the motorcycle and wait. He then drives away at high speed for about 15 seconds. However, she manages to catch up just in time to shoot the robot attacking him. Not only would it have been impossible for her to get there so quickly on foot, but she is not even out of breath.

Correction: He drives up and out of the tunnel and then makes a U-Turn to the right, following the boy. It's completely possible for her to climb out on foot and find them if he made a trip around.

Corrected entry: When Del is walking through the robot storage area by the place where Lake Michigan used to be and he's looking at the retired robots, Alfred Lanning's voice is talking about how "robots who are in the dark will gather at the light" and that "robots who are together in storage will gather together rather than stay apart." However, quite a while back while Del is looking at the video where this quote came from, Lanning says nothing about the robots gathering towards light, he just immediately says the bit about them staying in groups. It seems as if a shot was taken out while the doctor was talking and no one bothered to catch up with the sound. Either that or the other sentence was added later to better fit the shots of the stored robots.

Correction: When Spooner asks Dr. Calvin about the "ghosts in the machine," she makes it clear that this principle was of utmost importance to Dr. Lanning. It is likely that he spoke on this topic on several occasions, and may have varied the content from time to time.

Corrected entry: Unless future forensic science goes terribly wrong, the scientists should not have let Del touch that hologram without proper protective gloves.

Correction: Actually if future forensic science has progressed enough, it should only take about 5 minutes to extract every possible piece of evidence from such a small item, meaning that letting someone touch it without protective gloves (especially a detective) wouldn't be a problem.

Gary O'Reilly

Corrected entry: In the scene where Spooner goes to Dr. Lanning's house far shots of his Audi shows it is hovering a few inches above the ground yet the shot from Spooner's side shows it's on the ground. The shot then cuts back again to the far shot & the car is hovering again.

Correction: A correction to a previous, similar entry established the cars in the movie use spherical tires and do not levitate.

Corrected entry: When Spooner is telling the scientist about the accident, there is a flashback of it. Spooner tells the robot to save the girl. The robot doesn't listen to him which violates the one of the three laws.

Correction: The Three Laws are ranked according to priority, with higher Laws overruling the lower. Thus, protecting the life of a human is more important than following that human's orders.

Phoenix

Corrected entry: Sonny resists the force field without having protection by special alloying. Sonny's brains were transfered into another body by Susan Calvin in order to save his "life". But this other body does not have the special alloying. This was described as being unique to original Sonny like his brains (Dr. Lanning wanted him probably to access the nano bots). So why could he resist to the force field containing the nano bots which were finally able to kill V.I.K.I.? Note: the robot falling against that field during the fight with Sonny had half of his face missing due to the force field.

Correction: Dr. Calvin didn't switch out Sonny's brain, she switched out his entire body with one of the spares that was also in the room sometime between setting up Sonny ("Will it hurt?") and talking to the head designer through the camera. Sonny is still intact.

Phoenix

Corrected entry: In the scene when Will Smith realizes that V.I.K.I is the real mastermind of the whole uprising, Sonny uses Doctor Calvin as a hostage and Will points his gun at Sonny. When Will shoots the gun, the slide of the gun should either have moved back and forth (to give way to the ejecting bullet shells), or it should have been firmly set in place, however the slide moves slightly sideways repeatedly while being fired. You then see the other side of the gun but no shells are being ejected.

Correction: It's new technology, it's supposed to work like that.

Corrected entry: Sonny disobeys direct orders, attacks a police officer and tries to flee from the SWAT team at the robotics plant. Yet everyone absolutely refuses to believe he could have killed Dr. Lanning even though he has shown disregard for at least one of the three laws.

Correction: He never harmed anyone. So they all think its a malfunction with a higher purpose.

Kirill Ostapenko

Corrected entry: In the scene where Spooner is telling the girl scientist about his car crash in the river, he had lost his left arm in the accident. Yet he was able to knock on the window with his left hand to tell the robot to go after the girl next to him.

Correction: I don't remember him knocking on the window, only screaming at the robot to save the girl. Besides, his arm could have been lost during this rescue rather than during the accident itself. He says he had been pinned inside the car, so that presumes the robot would have had to pull him very hard to save him, thus damaging his arm and ribs.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: Robots cannot, through inaction, allow a human to come to harm. Alcohol is technically harmful. Yet when detective Spooner is talking to his boss in the bar, a robot is calmly serving them beer.

Correction: As a bartender, the robot would be programmed to serve alcohol within a certain limit so as to be unharmful.

Xofer

Corrected entry: The bridge that used to cross Lake Michigan would not be able to stand like that in real life. The road section should be collapsed, since the suspension cables are not reaching the other tower to the bridge. A suspension bridge works by having the giant cables between the towers having the smaller cables suspend the roads and relies on the presence of a second tower. With the second tower missing, even if the road section did not completely collapse, the cables would be taut under the weight of the bridge, not still in their curved configuration as seen in the film. Any futuristic material used in the construction is irrelevant - this is simply how the suspension bridge design functions.

Correction: You cannot dismiss any futuristic material as "irrelevant", especially in a world where thinking robots are as common as cars. We do not know if the bridge was set up that way on purpose or if it was adjusted with future tech before collapsing.

Corrected entry: When Del Spooner jumps down from the control panel level of VIKI to get to her brain and inject the nano-robots, he tries to slow his fall by holding onto the glowing pipes. He lets go rather far from the platform above. Considering that he is already falling very fast, he should have landed very hard and cringed from the impact, but he merely landed and absorbed the impact by bending his knees. That would not be possible.

Correction: That's not what happens at all. He already slowed his decent significantly so when he dropped down, he wasn't going "very fast". Nor could you classify his drop as being from "rather far". But he does more than just bend his knees, he rolls, which significantly reduces the shock.

Bishop73

Corrected entry: When Dr Calvin terminates the empty shell NS5 instead of Sonny, why didn't VIKI notice and take action, even to notify the watching Robertson of the fact?

Correction: Given VIKI's ultimate goal, she simply wanted Sonny to remain active to use him like she was using the other robots. She also knew of his uniqueness and probably thought he'd help evolve the other robots (voluntarily or not).

Bishop73

Corrected entry: After narrowly escaping the NS5s as they destroy the older robots, Spooner races back to the city through a tunnel on his motorcycle. During this scene, there are many low-angle shots that reveal that the cars are driving on normal tires, not the spherical tires that are suggested by the wheel bulges on all cars.

Correction: The bulges on the wheel arches are there so when the car turns the front wheels have room to move.

Corrected entry: After Sonny is taken in to custody, John and Del are standing talking outside the interrogation room and you can see Sonny through the glass door. You can also see images from the CCTV along the top of the glass door. After Del winks at John and he goes inside the interrogation room, it shows a shot from behind Sonny just as the door is closing. You can see that the door is no longer glass, it has changed to a solid gray door.

Correction: What you're describing is two different parts of the door. The first, where it's glass, is from outside the room. The second, solid gray, is from inside the room. This is nothing more than advanced technology mimicking a one-way mirror in an interrogation room, where inside the room it's a reflective mirror and on the outside it's see-through glass.

Bishop73

Revealing mistake: Just before entering Robertson's office after climbing the stairs, Spooner is behind Sonny with a flashlight. The light shines on Sonny's back and the door, but Sonny does not cast a shadow.

Kristal

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Trivia: The very futuristic single bladed fan we see in Spooner's apartment is actually a ceiling fan of today. It's called "The Enigma" and is manufactured by Fanimation Inc.

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Question: If Lanning really had leaped from that distance, wouldn't he be unrecognizable upon impact and not with only a little bit of blood coming from his mouth?

Answer: He'd certainly have a lot of internal injuries that aren't visible, would probably have more injuries showing than that trickle of blood, but wouldn't necessarily be "unrecognizable."

Phixius

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