BICENTENNIAL MAN (1999)

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""A movie with much potential that slowly drags on and on and destroys the greatness of the movie in the first half""

This movie to me seemed at first interesting and weird. I accidentally came upon it, watching it through Encore. The movie is based on a robotic android named "andrew" that is unique and unlike other regular futuristic robots. Andrew is a robot with a personality and uniqueness and learns more about humans by the help of the family that bought him. The movie contained Robin Williams, which i am not a huge fan of because he is sometimes just annoying and pretends to be the funniest man alive. But, some of his movie i have enjoyed, and well in this movie, only his voiced was used, in the first half of the film. Also, the movie had Sam Neil (Jurassic Park), so i decided to watch the movie.

The film started off kind of weird, and creative. It shows how the robot Andrew begins learning about humans and jokes and emotions, which was interesting because those are HUMAN characteristics, something robots cannot possibly have. Then, as years past, technology evolved, and Andrew was searching for other robots like him, others who had personality and differed from the average "household item". The movie centers on Andrew becoming more and more human with more advanced technology, but the movie just seemed to drag on and on and at some points the film just should have ended a while back ago.

What was ridiculous was the way that the robot was basically a human already! It's as if humans can create advanced intellectuals such as robots and disguise them as one of us! I didnt like the idea of the movie, and i guess i could be a little biased.

So, in general the movie was too long, the acting was pretty good, the visuals were actually interesting, but the fact that they kept on with the movie, and showed 200 years of house this one special robot's search for human life was dull and too much of a fantasy world. The movie would have been more enjoyable if it centered of Andrew growing up in a world of today and discovering the human characteristics like how it did in the first have of the film, and then he learned all he wanted to learn and basically just shut down.

But, no, they had to make the movie seem so fake, and dull... that i just suddenly lost interest and right when the movie was about to finish in 10 minutes, I just could not bare that wait of the movie ending.

Overall Score:

2.5 out of 5

5 out of 10.