So we went to see I, Robot yesterday, much to the chagrin of my friend Sharon (who slugged me a total of four times yesterday). Like I mentioned a couple of posts ago, I'm going to run the movie experience through my list of questions to determine if I thought it was a good movie. Here we go:

1. Yes, I was entertained.
2. I didn't have a single moment where I got bored or thought "let's get on with it" for the entire two hours of the film. During the 10 minutes of credits, however...
3. Yes, I was able to maintain my suspension of disbelief, and on two levels. The first being reality, and the second being the reality of the robotic world that Isaac Asimov brought into being.
4. Yes, I was able to tune out the surroundings for most of the movie. Unfortunately, this particular screening had a huge obstacle, in that a couple brought in two kids in a stroller built for two. Only twice during the film did they scream out and momentarily distract me, but they distracted everyone in the theater when they did.
5. The story kept me guessing through most of the film as well as stimulated. In fact, it was a much better plot line than I thought there would be.
6. For the most part, yes, I was interested in the characters. They certainly weren't fully developed (this is an action movie, after all), but they weren't the cardboard cutouts I expected (this is an action movie, after all).
7. I thought the photography was superb and the use of special effects (again, ignoring the closing credits, all 10 minutes of them) was in line with the movie direction.

That being said, I thought this was a good movie overall. Certainly not the best film I've ever seen, but I went to be entertained, and I was more entertained than I expected to be. I call that a success in any language.

Gotta check and see what we're catching next weekend. Tonight is yet another trip to the Ballpark to see the Rangers whip up on their poor opponents. To say I'm in baseball heaven this season is the understatement of understatements!