I Robot
Reviews
Collected by Dawn Arnold, Colette Audette and Ann Orr

There's the suave and evil anything-for-a-buck corporate smoothie (played by the terrific Canadian actor Bruce Greenwood).
John Podhoretz, National Review 7/16/04

What is US Robotics boss Lawrence Robertson (the brilliantly slimy Bruce Greenwood) hiding?
New Zealand Sunday Star News 7/18/04

Greenwood, a good actor, is underutilized...
Mike LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle 7/16/04

Bruce Greenwood fulfills his part as Cold-Hearted Corporate Villain well.
Star-Ledger 7/16/04

But the action sequences come willy-nilly, and Bruce Greenwood is too familiar as the CEO villain.
Everett Herald 7/16/04

The lack of a singular villain doesn't help. Sonny can't quite cut it,and neither do Bruce Greenwood or James Cromwell, both of whom make cameo attempts.
Rick Groen, Globe & Mail 7/16/04

Notable performances by Bruce Greenwood as the USR CEO, James Cromwell as the dead inventor,and especially Alan Tudyk in an unusual but prominent role flesh out a sound supporting cast.
Mike Disen, Daily Texan 7/16/04

Greenwood is a standard-issue villain/boss.
Bruce Kirkland, Toronto Sun 7/16/04

Greenwood knows he's playing a one-dimensional villain, so he pulls out all the stops, glowering and gritting his teeth to punctuate every line of dialogue.
Louis B. Hobson, London Free Press 7/16/04

The considerable talents of actors Bruce Greenwood (here playing the CEO of U.S. Robotics) and James Cromwell (the reclusive scientist who developed the robots) are wasted. They emerge as mere caricatures.
Claudia Puig, USA Today 7/15/04

And we sneer too - even though we're well aware that the CEO, since he's being played by the talented but hardly bankable Canadian actor Bruce Greenwood, is not one squillionth as rich as Smith.
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star 7/16/04

Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood and James Cromwell offer strong support as the resident geniuses at U.S. Robotics, while Chi McBride is Spooner's demanding police supervisor.
Jack Garner, News-Leader 7/16/04

So, Lt. Spooner, an old-fashioned guy with a weakness for wisecracks and his grandma's sweet-potato pie, risks his careerand bodily harm by accusing Lawrence Robertson (a slick Bruce Greenwood), CEO of United States Robotics, the richest, most powerful man in the world, of foul play.
Hap Erstein, Palm Beach Post 7/16/04

To complete the parade of uninteresting caricatures, Bruce Greenwood plays the powerful head of the robot-manufacturing company who intimidates the cops with his really big office.
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic 7/16/04

As for Smith's co-stars, Cromwell's Lanning is a throwaway character used mainly for effect, Moynahan is timid and sometimes robot-like but it is a sturdy performance and Greenwood is menacing and a good match to face off against the rebellious Smith.
Dean Kish, TheCelebrityCafe.com 7/16/04

Will Smith deploys all his raging charm as hard-bitten homicide cop Del Spooner who, in 2035 Chicago, investigates the death of Alfred Lanning (James Cromwell), co-founder of giant U.S. Robots Corp., whose filthy-rich boss, Lawrence Robertson (sinister Bruce Greenwood) reluctantly introduces him to robot psychologist Susan Calvin (ice-queenly Bridget Moynahan).
Jeannette Catsoulis, Las Vegas Mercury 7/15/04

She works for Lawrence Robertson (Bruce Greenwood), the richest man in the world, the founder of the USR company. They are preparing for the biggest robot distribution in history, with one robot for every five people about to be delivered as an "upgrade." It is important to Robertson that nothing interfere with the public's acceptance of his robots.
  Robertson dismisses the idea of a rogue robot as impossible because it would undermine his business...
Movie Mom's Review 7/16/04

Also mixed in are lots of insight from brilliant and comely researcher Calvin; hindrance from the company's quietly hostile CEO Lawrence Robertson (Bruce Greenwood); and shivery moments from those hundreds of NS-5s, controlled by the ultimate in artificial intelligence, central brain V.I.K.I. (voiced and modeled by Fiona Hogan).
Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune 7/15/04