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His first day back on the job, Spooner receives a call from the scene of what appears to be an open-and-shut suicide case; the victim had been holding a holographic transmitter programmed to call Spooner in the event of his death. The victim is Dr. Alfred Lanning, pioneer of the robotics industry and the man who wrote the [["Three Laws"-Compliant|Three Laws Of Robotics]]. Convinced that there is more to the case than meets the eye, Spooner investigates further, and finds a robot in the room Lanning fell from. Only there's something strange about this robot. It threatens his life. It disobeys orders. In short, it has free will, is unrestricted by the Three Laws, and Spooner becomes convinced that this robot "Sonny" is the key to the mystery behind Lanning's death.
As mentioned above, the plot bears almost no connection at all to that of the book, though it deals with themes similar to those presented by the book and much of Asimov's work in general. It should be noted that ''I, Robot'' began life as a script called ''Hardwired''
Apparently, there is going to be [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1083849/ a sequel]; it was originally scheduled for release in 2015, but is now in [[Development Hell]].
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Has nothing to do with the arcade game ''[[I Robot (video game)|I, Robot]]''.
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* [[Abnormal Limb Rotation Range]]: NS-5s, especially their waists.
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* [[Hot Scientist]]: Calvin, as opposed to the stories.
** Depending on your ideals for beauty, this could be a case of [[Hollywood Homely]] and/or [[Hollywood Nerd]] instead.
* [[Humans Are
* [[Ink Suit Actor]]: Alan Tudyk as Sonny, as it's said the effect team used the same process that was used with Andy Serkis when he played Gollum from ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]''.
* [[In Name Only]]: The movie has several passing similarities to the namesake series (it does prominently feature robots being [["Three Laws"-Compliant]]), but the actual storyline is nothing like the original. However, that book was an anthology of ''nine'' separate stories in a common universe, mostly revolving around the central character Susan Calvin. The film features many of the concepts of that universe. The conceit of the film is that it's a loose prequel to those stories, a new tale in the overall series of stories whose blanket title is ''I, Robot''.
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* [[Never Suicide]]: Everyone is convinced that Dr. Lanning's death was just a suicide; everyone except Spooner, of course. {{spoiler|Subverted: it really was suicide, sort of. [[Meaningful Echo|"He made me swear."]]}}
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Several scenes double as references to Asimov's short stories, such as the scene where Spooner and Calvin need to find Sonny in a room filled with identical robots.
** In that scene, there's also the resulting exchange between Calvin and Spooner. She suggests that they interview each robot and cross-reference their responses for anomalies, which will take about six weeks. Spooner rolls his eyes and goes off to do his [[Cowboy Cop]]
* [[Nanomachines]]: Essentially the guillotine for AIs.
* [[Noble Bigot with a Badge]]: Spooner is kind of a [[Fantastic Racism|robot-centered]] version, complete with {{spoiler|eventually befriending a trustworthy robot}}.
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