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Bicentennial Man (1999)

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Reviews Counted:93

Fresh:35

Rotten:58

Average Rating:4.8/10

Consensus: Bicentennial Man is ruined by a bad script and ends up being dull and mawkish.

Runtime: 2 hrs 11 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Bicentennial Man follows the life and times of the title character, an android (Robin Williams) who is purchased as a household robot programmed to perform menial tasks. The Martin family quickly... Bicentennial Man follows the life and times of the title character, an android (Robin Williams) who is purchased as a household robot programmed to perform menial tasks. The Martin family quickly learn that they don't have an ordinary robot when Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought. In a story that spans two centuries, Andrew learns the intricacies of humanity, life, and love. -- © 1999 Touchstone Pictures [More]

Starring: Robin Williams, Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill, Wendy Crewson

Starring: Robin Williams, Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill, Wendy Crewson, Oliver Platt, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Stephen Root, Lynne Thigpen, Bradley Whitford, Kiersten Warren, John Michael Higgins

Director: Chris Columbus

Director: Chris Columbus
Screenwriter: Nicholas Kazan
Story: Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg
Producer: Chris Columbus, Wolfgang Petersen, Michael Barnathan, Gail Katz, Neal Miller, Laurence Mark, Mark Radcliffe
Composer: James Horner

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06/24/06
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The film swiftly settles into an unevenly paced, episodic structure, unsure whether it's a family saga, a sci-fi drama or a children's comedy.

Full Review Source: Sight and Sound | comment Comment
12/02/02
Mike Higgins
Mike Higgins
Sight and Sound

The worst kind of movie -- one with no direction, no identity, and above all no heart.

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04/17/01
Ben Falk
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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09/08/09
P. Ignatieff
P. Ignatieff
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12/06/05
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04/09/05
Robin Clifford
Robin Clifford
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...aspires to an almost adult level of seriousness.

Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment Comment
01/02/05
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Bicentennial Man is sometimes sweet, but it's also a phenomenal waste of talent, and a continuation of a Williams' trip down the wrong road.

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10/23/03
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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05/20/03
Leonard Schwarz
Leonard Schwarz
Palo Alto Weekly

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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
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12/08/02
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Columbus lays on the sentimentality thickly, sometimes letting it get in the way of the storytelling. The longer the movie continues, the more overt he becomes in his emotional pandering.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
11/06/02
Jeff Strickler
Jeff Strickler
Minneapolis Star Tribune

Virtually every emotion, motivation, idea, character and plot point in the movie is flat and perfunctory -- except for those that carry the invisible subtitle, 'Cry, dammit!'

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10/15/02
Margaret A. McGurk
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09/18/02
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

You long for [Williams] to break the metal mold, if only for a minute, to remind you that you are watching the best improvisational comedian of this millennium.

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06/05/02
Mike Kerrigan
Mike Kerrigan
Boxoffice Magazine

Becomes a somber, sentimental and rather profound romantic fantasy that is more true to the spirit of the Golden Age of science-fiction writing than possibly any other movie of the '90s.

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04/03/02
William Arnold
William Arnold
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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03/24/02
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