Bicentennial Man

Director : Chris Columbus
Writer : Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, Nicholas Kazan
Robin Williams - Andrew Martin
Embeth Davidtz - Little Miss / Portia
Sam Neill - Sir

In one off Isaac Asimov’s three autobiographies, “I, Asimov”, he states that the second best story he ever wrote was “Bicentennial Man”. I am a big Asimov fan and have read every novel he has ever written, but “Bicentennial Man” was one of his short stories and not being a fan of the genre, I never got around to reading it. When I first heard that a “Bicentennial Man” movie was being made, I was excited by the prospect and put it high on my list of movies to view.

Then the reviews came out.

“Bicentennial Man” was panned by just about every reviewer and fans in the Asimov news group seemed to universally hate it. Suddenly, it wasn’t a “must see”, and I postponed viewing it until this weekend, when it finally on appeared on cable.
So is it as bad as everyone said it was?

Well, not really but I think the director made three big mistakes that turned this movie in to something less than what it could have
been. I’ll discuss those mistakes shortly, but first a summary of the story.

“Bicentennial Man” is the story about …

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