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.
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11/06/02
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Bicentennial Man (1999)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:6
Rotten:15
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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Reviews for Bicentennial Man
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Top CriticIt's one thing to ask an audience to love a mechanical man, but quite another to love a mechanical performance.
03/19/02
Top CriticMr. Williams latches onto every cheap laugh he can find.
01/01/00
Top CriticBicentennial Man's heart may be synthetic, but it beats strongly, nonetheless.
01/01/00
Top CriticSo coldly calculated it could give you frostbite.
01/01/00
Top CriticA likable movie.
01/01/00
Top CriticBy relegating the story to a disappointing level of superficiality and never attempting to venture more than skin-deep into some intriguing themes, Bicentennial Man comes across like recycled, diluted Star Trek.
01/01/00
Top CriticA male fantasy with artificial intelligence.
01/01/00
Top CriticAn underfunded inventor makes enough snide asides about 'relentlessly unfashionable android technology' that you half expect Williams to start speechifying about the merits of cloning.
01/01/00
Top CriticYou wish that the film unfolded on a more modest scale and in the real world.
01/01/00
Top CriticBicentennial Man has heart, but lacks bite.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's frequently witless and entirely lacks conviction.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's a bit strange, and strained.
01/01/00
Top CriticA cornball drone of greeting-card sentiment.
01/01/00
Top Critic[Robin William's] most grandiose holiday greeting yet.
01/01/00
Top CriticThis tin man has a heart, but his movie needs a pulse.
01/01/00
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An ambitious tale handled in a dawdling, sentimental way.
01/01/00
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