Beautiful, moving film.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Ingenious? Meh. Hilarious? Not really. Moving? Definitely not. Not sure what I...wait, there's more descriptions for this on the back cover? Brilliant, touching and captivating? Funny, thoughtful and smart? Where was I...oh yeah, not sure what I watched but it certainly wasn't any of the above. A retired cat burglar who suffers from memory lapses has two grown children who are concerned that he cannot live by himself. So they purchase a robot programmed to improve his health, however he uses it to get back into completing heists. Ok look, it's a nice film, perfectly watchable and hosts a fantastic central performance from Frank Langella. I was onboard with the subtle futuristic tropes in a modern world that is based on our current reality. Humanoid robots, modern phones and televisions and even the architectural designs of certain buildings. The attention to digitalisation assisting humanity through processes of deterioration was rather refreshing. Our main character resents change but slowly starts to embrace it, ironically this is the same with any new piece of technology. Schreier's directing style was clean and enhanced the contemporary indie feel that the film was aiming for. All the ingredients for a quirky memorable indie drama are there, so why was I immediately disengaged with the story? I mean I really didn't care for the plot at all. It's far too glossy and overly quirky to a point where the characters themselves existed just because the plot required them. Susan Sarandon's character is in the film simply as a means for a twist at the end, which was implausible anyway. Liv Tyler still cannot act. The subtle humour was so subtle, that I didn't actually laugh or smile once. I'm just not sure where I sit with this one. The concept and ideas were great, technical execution was sublime and the production design was suitably modern. The story and script were rather lacklustre and for that, I didn't care for it. Shame really.

I enjoyed it because of the legend that is Frank Langella... but I'm not sure what it amounts to, beyond the familiar story of a hostile relationship gradually turning sympathetic.There are opportunities for the film to make some great points about the nature of memory and consciousness, but instead it chooses to mostly forgo that in favour of its chintzy "Entrapment"-style old timer's heist plot... The small moments of humanity made it worthwhile, but the plot was too mechanical for my liking.

In the near future, an aging thief with memory problems (Frank Langella) gets a robot assistant.Nice little movie, reminds me a little of the interaction between the man and the robot in "Moon".The robot's design is a bit distracting at first since it's pretty obvious that it's a (wo)man in a suit, which makes it pretty hard to suspend the disbelief. Still, it's a OK movie.Excellent score by Francis and the Lights. Good performance by Langella. Good voice acting by Peter Sarsgaard.The script could have been more interesting.

In the near future, robots are affordable as domestic help and it is one of these that aging Frank finds himself with when his son Hunter decides he needs more permanent caring for. Although his memory is fading and he occasionally loses himself, Frank remembers who he used to be – which was a burglar. With Robot keen to set schedules and activities for Frank, Frank helps by suggesting lock-picking, casing potential places for robbery and so on, thus drawing the automation into his unlikely world of crime.This is a nice but very light film throughout, and it is an odd one because I both enjoyed it for what it did while also wishing it had put a bit more work in to make itself something even better. There is a nice sense of aging (a process Hollywood films are rarely comfortable with) and it is connected to a charming if unconvincing story of minor robberies and companionship; it all works well for 90 minutes and I enjoyed the interplay between the two title characters as they go. Ultimately the messages and characters are quite touching but it is all a bit too tidy and safe in many ways – it is good to have the themes there, but it could have done with a bit more rough edges, a bit more heart and improvements in the general material.The cast certainly deserved it. Langella gets the best of the material and he works very well in his character, bringing an air of pathos to it which I enjoyed and also giving out grumpy charm with ease. Sarsgaard's voice works well as there is enough character to suggest personality but not so much that you forget it is a robot. Marsden, Tyler, Sarandon and Sisto all provide solid support but with no clear reason why so many famous names and faces signed up for this specific film – they do feel a bit distracting by virtue of who they all are.Overall it is still a pleasing and entertaining film with a bit of heart in there too; it is just a bit too slight at the end of the day and I would have liked it to have mixed the charm and humor with something a bit rougher around the edges and with more of a challenge to the viewer than the gentle accepting nod that we arrived at.