HUGE SPOILER AHEAD
LOOK AWAY NOW
PLEASE
ONLY FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE ALREADY SEEN THIS
I really loved the adaptation, with those little details, the extra characters, the black dude, I loved it all. But all the while, I was watching it, something kept on bothering me and at the end I realized it: They basically BOTCHED the ending. Because in the original story, it is stressed much more THROUGHOUT the story/film that there is a specific TRIGGER sentence which will set off the bomb. They forgot to mention this in the film. This is the entire crux of the plot. The basic premisse in the story is that the robot DOES NOT REALIZE he IS a robot, so that he will be extra motivated to escape the police ... until he (and we) finds out he IS a robot, he acknowledges this AND THEREBY speaks the fatal sentence "but if this Olmert then I must be ... " !
I did love the the double twist with his wife, though, that was good, but a little more stress on that trigger phrase would have made the ending so much better. The whole story was set up for that! It was like reading Nightfall without the thing about the stars and the suns.
7/10 The Melancholic Alcoholic.
===================================================================== "Remember that you're UNIQUE. Just like everyone else."
LOOK AWAY NOW
PLEASE
ONLY FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE ALREADY SEEN THIS
I really loved the adaptation, with those little details, the extra characters, the black dude, I loved it all. But all the while, I was watching it, something kept on bothering me and at the end I realized it: They basically BOTCHED the ending. Because in the original story, it is stressed much more THROUGHOUT the story/film that there is a specific TRIGGER sentence which will set off the bomb. They forgot to mention this in the film. This is the entire crux of the plot. The basic premisse in the story is that the robot DOES NOT REALIZE he IS a robot, so that he will be extra motivated to escape the police ... until he (and we) finds out he IS a robot, he acknowledges this AND THEREBY speaks the fatal sentence "but if this Olmert then I must be ... " !
I did love the the double twist with his wife, though, that was good, but a little more stress on that trigger phrase would have made the ending so much better. The whole story was set up for that! It was like reading Nightfall without the thing about the stars and the suns.
7/10 The Melancholic Alcoholic.
===================================================================== "Remember that you're UNIQUE. Just like everyone else."