Lacks urgency.
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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... [More]
Starring: Robin Williams, Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill, Wendy Crewson
Director: Chris Columbus
Reviews for Bicentennial Man
A male fantasy with artificial intelligence.
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Bicentennial Man too mushy, heavy-handed.
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An underfunded inventor makes enough snide asides about 'relentlessly unfashionable android technology' that you half expect Williams to start speechifying about the merits of cloning.
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We have a decent little film trying desperately to escape from the vicious grasp of a hokey Hollywood formula. As a result, we get a pretty average film.
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The film should please those looking for a somewhat sentimental and clearly different sort of story.
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Essentially The Adventures of Pinocchio with a lot of bells and whistles, except that Kazan and Columbus neglect to give Pinocchio any adventures -- or, worse yet, any flaws to grow out of.
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A nice try, but overall, no dice.
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It's a step in the right direction for both its star and maker.
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One of the greatest features of the film is the realistic aging of its characters.
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It's the Tin Man without much brain.
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This is one tin man with neither heart nor brains.
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You wish that the film unfolded on a more modest scale and in the real world.
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Top CriticBut 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.
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An impuissant and confused movie.
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More a meditation on the nature of life itself than anything else, and a welcome respite from Robin Williams, the emotion sponge.
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Bicentennial Man is crusty, dusty, and musty. Metal or flesh-and-bone, Robin's rusty.
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Without a doubt, a manipulative picture. But director Chris Columbus, schmaltzmeister that he is, makes no bones about it.
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