10 Movie Plots Made Possible By Ridiculous Convenience

While human augmentation has been the topic of many films and video games down the years, nothing really got the concept as wrong as I, Robot managed in 2004.

The year is 2035 and humans have humanoid robots to carry out just about every task imaginable. Artificial intelligence has reached a level wherein standard units can interact with humans and one notable example of robotics has developed the ability to dream - quite possibly of electric sheep.

At no point in the film do we see any passing humans with augmented body parts despite these obvious robotic advances. But of course, the protagonist has to have a secret, super-powerful robotic arm that comes to light at a moment when you would need such a thing.

Annoying explanation later, you realise that the sheer convenience of Will Smith's bionic arm is just plain irksome as he has no way of deactivating the villainous supercomputer without grinding his way down the protected mainframe with his augmented limb...

It's as though the screenwriters thought to themselves 'hmm, how can we make this character better without making it obvious until we need to?'.

Hateful.