How have I never seen Bicentennial Man before? I don't know, but I am glad that I have finally watched it. I will tell you this; Bicentennial Man is my new favorite movie of 1999, and it is my favorite movie that I have watched in 2011. I know, its only been a month, but I have a feeling this movie will hold that title for awhile. Predictably so, I am rating this movie 5 stars.
Wow, well let me start by saying there were only 3 things in the entire movie that I did not think were perfect. That is a lot to say for a movie that is over 2 hours long, and made 12 years ago. Wow again, 12 years?
When Robin Williams' character Andrew Martin gets a "skin" upgrade half way through the movie, I was not fully keen on the results. Nothing was changed on the inside, yet he no longer made the hydraulic noise and his posture became "human". Perhaps the fake skin could muffle the robot noises to an extent, but silence all but his eyelid noise I am not fully inclined to believe. Closer to the end of the film I also was not fully sure how his blood transfusion made his fake skin and hair age. How does fake skin and hair age, and how did they made a robot function on human blood?
The last remaining thing that was not absolutely perfect in the film goes with something that made the film. Music. The soundtrack for the film was absolutely incredible. Fun happy songs during appropriate segments, and heartfelt powerful full of emotion songs perfectly placed throughout. The part of the music I was not as happy with was the song choices in the film. For example when we first meet Galatea, she is listening to classic rock? This scene takes place in 2050 or 2060 perhaps, I was not happy with the choice. This had little effect on the background music however, which I must emphasize again I was completely impressed with.
I was also impressed with how young and handsome they made Robin look. I can honestly say I have not ever seen a movie and just thought he was handsome. There were a few times during Bicentennial Man that I was truly surprised by it however. Robin pulled off an amazing transition from full robot, to half robot human, and finally being full human when we see him at the end.
I was enamored by many of the cast's performance. Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill, Oliver Platt, Hallie Kate Eisenberg and Steven Root. I am very surprised that a few of these names are not larger today because of this film, but perhaps one may argue they are as large as they are due to the film. I do not have a single complaint about the acting, in whole it was truly breathtaking.
One thing that I thought Bicentennial Man did a stunning job with was the prediction and creation of the future. I have blogged about a few movies that deal with the future, and some of those reviews were not very nice. The concept of invention on a timeline was realistic, the idea of clothing and new technology was not unbelievable and architecture was very conceivable.
What I was most impressed with about the entire package was the script. Every single thing was perfect. Small bits of humor mixed in at perfect intervals, surprising character developments and interactions developed throughout and the evolution and creation of the first ever human robot was impeccable. The family drama and development was believable. You also had your generic needs of a script such as this met in having love, and a few villainous characters.
I would suggest that if you are looking for a movie to immerse yourself into for a night, be amazed and awed, laugh and cry then you need to see Bicentennial Man. I am categorizing it as a 5 star must see if you haven't already (and if you have, but its been awhile see it again). As always please leave comments, click above to follow my blog and share to your favorite social networking site below. Ciao for now and see you for the next review
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