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I, Robot
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I, Robot is a 2004 science fiction thriller directed by Alex Proyas (The Crow). Set in the year 2035, the film stars Will Smith as Del Spooner, a technophobic detective with the Chicago Police Department who is assigned a murder case that involves the grisly death of his friend, who was an inventor at U.S. Robotics, a corporation that has made anthropomorphic robots the norm in society. Though named after the book I, Robot published in 1950 by science fiction author Isaac Asimov, the source material is actually a collection of nine short stories loosely related around a central concept of robots and how they relate to human beings, as told in a frame story by Dr. Susan Calvin, chief robopsychologist at U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men (which was changed to U.S. Robotics for the film, which is a the name of a real company, although the real company primarily manufacturers computer modems). Several movies have been made from some of the short stories, but a film of the entire book (and its different elements) has never been made. While sharing the same title, this film is only very loosely based on the book, but does feature the famous Three Laws of Robotics.
The following weapons were used in the film I, Robot:
WARNING! THIS PAGE CONTAINS SPOILERS!
Handguns
Detective Spooner's Pistol (Dressed-up Taurus Model 85)
Detective Del Spooner (Will Smith) carries a futuristic custom pistol that is supposed to be a semi-automatic 9mm. It is built from a two-part plastic shell, including parts molded from a Walther P99, that has a real Taurus Model 85 .38 Special revolver hidden inside. Lieutenant Bergin (Chi McBride) and all the other Chicago PD officers appear to also use the sidearm. It is seen in the film next to loaded 9mm magazines, and is holstered with like magazines in adjoining mag pouches, indicating the weapon is meant to be a mag-fed automatic. The same prop was later used in Stargate SG-1 in Season 9, Episode 4. Some more detailed images of the gun's interior can be found here.
Detective Spooner's Backup Pistol (Dressed-up Walther PPK)
Detective Spooner also carries a back-up piece on his ankle that is a dressed up/clamshelled Walther PPK. He uses this when the robot Sonny (Alan Tudyk) takes his main pistol, and jumps through the window. In a continuity error the pistol becomes a second full size handgun instead of a subcompact when Spooner and Calvin exit the USR Building.
Beretta 92FS
A SWAT officer is seen firing some sort of heavily modified pistol. It looks like a Beretta 92FS with an elongated barrel and M16 style birdcage flash hider attached.
Shotguns
Franchi SPAS-12
A Franchi SPAS-12 is picked up and used by Lieutenant Bergin (Chi McBride) when the USR robots storm the police station, using it to take down several attackers before being disarmed. His SPAS is heavily modified with a futuristic looking top heat shield and an extended front end. There are also a few of these shotguns used by the SWAT officers during the factory shootout, but they are mostly made of rubber.
Rubber Shotguns
The security and police tactical units carry these futuristic shotguns. Many of the background guns are rubber molds of the modified SPAS-12 shotgun seen fired by Lt. Bergin (Chi McBride).
Mossberg 500 Bullpup
One of the police officers that confronts the NS-5 robot patrol is armed with a Mossberg 500 Bullpup. The officer can be seen to the right of Farber (Shia LaBeouf)
Submachine Guns
FN P90 TR
The SWAT officers in the interrogation room all carry FN P90 TRs with Aimpoint sights and suppressors.
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Heckler & Koch MP5K
The SWAT team that appears to apprehend Sonny cariies a variety of weapons. We see the same futuristically-modified SPAS-12 that Lt. Bergin uses, as well as the Spooner's pistol. One of the obvious weapons is the Heckler & Koch MP5K with Aimpoint sight. It can also be seen, with no attachments, held in the hands of officers on the street during the robot uprising.
MAC-11
A MAC-11 is carried by a member of the street gang. It can be seen very clearly in the scene right before the gang charges the robot patrol.
Ruger MP9
Some of the SWAT officers carry Ruger MP9s, among the Heckler & Koch MP5Ks, the futuristic shotguns used by everyone, and the unknown futuristic pistol.
SITES Spectre M4 (Modified)
Carried and fired by Spooner and also by Susan Calvin, the futuristic submachine gun is a Spectre M4 enclosed in a custom plastic shell to mask its true identity. It is also seen being held in the hands of a SWAT officer in the police VTOL when Sonny escapes the factory. In one of the close-up screenshots we can see the rear sight, selector switch and safety. In the movie, the trigger guard is removed, a finger grooved grip covers the original M4 grip and there is a PSG-1 style palm pad attached to the base of the pistol grip.
Rifles
Unknown Futuristic Rifle
US Army soldiers carry an unusual rifle that looks like part paintball gun and part carbine. It appears on screen very briefly, near the end of the film.
