On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 56% based on 225 reviews, with an average rating of 6.07/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Bearing only the slightest resemblance to Isaac Asimov's short stories, "I, Robot" is still a summer blockbuster that manages to make viewers think -- if only for a little." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 59 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale.