The worst kind of movie -- one with no direction, no identity, and above all no heart.
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04/17/01
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... [More]
Starring: Robin Williams, Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill, Wendy Crewson
Director: Chris Columbus
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Top CriticThe 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.
12/02/02
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01/01/00
Tries to win our hearts without doing much for our brains or our funny bones, and it just doesn't work.
01/01/00
...aspires to an almost adult level of seriousness.
01/02/05
This tin man has a heart, but his movie needs a pulse.
01/01/00
More a meditation on the nature of life itself than anything else, and a welcome respite from Robin Williams, the emotion sponge.
01/01/00
A male fantasy with artificial intelligence.
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03/24/02
Top CriticYou 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.
06/05/02
But I'll be darned if, by the end, my heart didn't reach out a bit to Andrew as he tried to understand the workings of his own.
01/01/00
A cornball drone of greeting-card sentiment.
01/01/00
Top CriticBicentennial Man has heart, but lacks bite.
01/01/00
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!'
10/15/02
...nothing but a sappy, shameless, and morbid production that wastes talent and time in a script designed to line the bottom of a bird cage.
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