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Summary: A review that will make sense of it for everyone
Review: You're reading this for two reasons. Either you haven't seen it and are trying to decide if you should, or you have seen it and want to see what other people think about it.If you haven't seen it, I'd say, "Do." While this film did have some weaker points, it is overall a very noble effort. This movie is not entirely a happy-go-lucky movie. There were parts that quite literally left me with a chilled feeling. But suffice it to say that you will not leave the theater feeling empty and depressed. I won't say you'll like it; I won't say you won't. But if you're seeking advice, then I say go see it. If you like Haley Joel Osment, as I do, then *definitely* go see it. I think that Haley Joel Osment is one of the better actors around right now, and in this movie, he does an excellent job of being a human portraying a robot who's trying to act human. He is one of a very short list of famous people I would thoroughly enjoy meeting in real life. [Ergo, if you can arrange it, I would be eternally grateful For those who have seen the movie, here's what I think. *SPOILER ALERT BELOW* [Sorry,but I can't review the movie if I'm not allowed to talk about it! I *did* warn people.] Overall, the movie was a success. As I said earlier, though, it did have its weak points. For instance, the tension between Monica and David might have been much better, and more realistic, if it was stronger. There were only a few brief incidents, and then suddenly Monica decides she is tired of David and gets rid of him. Not realistic. Also, I thought that the ending was rather odd. I can't personally think of a better way to end it, but everything after Manhattan had a somewhat surrealistic feel to it, to me. Not to say I disapprove of the way it was ended. In fact, I particularly enjoyed that chilled feeling I got as I watched David sit at the bottom of the sea, entombed by the Ferris wheel, as the voice explained how he would sit there for 2000 years. I enjoyed the chilled feeling, but I'm very glad the movie didn't end right there. However, these are only the movie's shortcomings. The rest of the movie was, in my opinion, extremely well done and enjoyable. The technical aspects were all correct; the emotions were, overall, well portrayed; and the plot was enjoyable and somewhat unpredictable--a welcome change. David's interactions with the other boys, including Martin, were very real. Overall, I liked this movie, and wouldn't mind seeing it a second time.
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Summary: Spielberg owes me.. -- AI is a bad movie.
Review: All I can figure is that the first five reviewers have not actually seen this film. AI is a bad movie. People started walking out of the theater after about an hour. I stayed thinking it would have to get better. I was wrong. AI starts with an interesting premise but quickly devolves to where it becomes laughable. Going into a movie made by Kubrick and Spielberg I had very high hopes. The first chip in those hopes unfortunately came in the first few seconds of the movie where a narrator explains what terrible thing we humans did to the world (AI seems to take place in the near future, perhaps 2300). None of the characters are likable or even interesting, although Gigolo Joe did provide some nice comic relief. The mom who decides it's a good idea to drop off her "son" in the forest to fend for himself. Come on! The gratuitous wrestle-mania meets Robo-wars violence was disgraceful. The hokey Ewok-inspired sidekick teddybear made me go "pfffttt" whenever he came on the screen. The Close Encounters-inspired, all-knowing, benevolent heros at the end were like a 12-year old's school story, "and then I woke up from a dream...". The Star Wars-inspired "stay on target" scene was just a blatant [copy cat]and I can't imagine why they bothered. There's more characters to hate but these ones jump out from my memory. Add to this the fact that the story is so weak and incongruous that they repeatedly have to introduce Obi-Wan like characters to explain why yet another unbelievable situation is actually plausible. Uh, that could happen. Really. No Really! Even all of this would be forgivable if the actual message of the movie wasn't so awful. "Just keep hoping all your problems will go away and they will." No need to actually do anything to work toward your goals, overcome any obstacles showing your strong character, or even be subject to those silly rules rational people call the physical laws of the universe -- like gravity. Just sit down and keep repeating, "There's no place like home." I hate to even reference a wonderful movie like The Wizard of Oz. AI is no Wizard of Oz. This is a bad movie. Stephen Spielberg should be ashamed of himself. At least if it were a Kubrick movie it wouldn't have a silly, cuddly, completely ridiculous ending. I blew [money] on tickets and for a babysitter, but that isn't nearly as bad as the three wasted hours of my life for this incredibly disappointing movie. Go buy DVDs of ET and 2001 and have a nice evening at home.
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Summary: Just Plain Weird
Review: Story of a little boy who isn't. "Pinocchio" is the book he relates to best. Odd imagery some of it based on famous paintings. The usual fascinating Spielberg lighting. Direction of Jude Law and HJ as un-humans very unique. Story line bizarro, hard to relate to unless you have an armageddon type spirituality. Some of the hackneyed Spielberg images keep wandering in - in another director's picture you would call them kudos or refs, but how does a director give a nod to himself? Worth seeing for the acting and curiosity but a disappointment. Not because it is not "typical Spielberg" (whatever that means whenyou have ET at one end and Holocaust at the other) but because the entertainment value is purely visual. Tries to tweak the emotions but fails because it is manipulative rather than essential.
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Summary: IN A DISTANT FUTURE.....
Review: Before you read on this review will probably contain spoilers, you've been warned. But if you are reading this you are probably like me, you just got out of the theater and you are not exactly sure what to think. As you probably know the story takes place in the distant future and the main chacter, David, is the first robot child built to love. The movie chronicles his journey, a journey based on the fairy tale Pinnochio. The movie is told in three parts, somewhat like Kubricks masterpiece 2001, the first "act" is an introduction to David as we watch him grow as we watch him love,we are also introduced to the best furry sidekick ever(better that Star Wars Chewbacca) Teddy, David's stuffed bear, and like David an intelligent robot. David although is dropped and left in the forest with Teddy, David believes that if he becomes a real boy his mother will want him back. Thus he begins his search for the Blue Fairy. Act two follows the classic style of a three act piece and becomes dark and scary, we are taken away from the pleasent home life shown earlier, and dropped into a setting similar to Blade Runers Los Angeles. We are also introduced to Jude Law's Gigolo Joe, as well as a large cross sampling of amazing robots. Law is incredable as Joe, who is not just a simple love machine, he is passionate, caring, and intelligent. Joe travels with David as he searches for the Blue Fairy to make him a real boy so he can return home. This leads them to the sunken Man-hatten (to understand that you have to see the movie) where he finds his creator Will Hurt who tells him that he is "as real a boy as I have ever made." But discovering he is not unique he leaves and travels underwater with Teddy, where in sunken Coney Island he finds the blue fairy-a statue. Where he stays praying for years and years and years-2000 to be exact. In act three, like in 2001, all that we know goes out the window. And I will not describe it because you have to see it. But it was one of the only scenes in a movie ever that has made me tear up. Many reviews I have read have said that the humans are unfeeling and empty, but I believed it worked because it was amazing that the robot was more human than the humans, full of hopes, dreams, and ambitions. Haley Joel Osment is wonderful. The film is filled with amazing scenes, many of which you can tell were Kubric inspired, the most gripping of which is definatly the Flesh Fair, a circus where robots are destroyed in painful ways as entertainment, have I mentioned that the robots feel pain. The robots in this scene are techniocally amazing, and the preceeding scene where this group of rag tag bots are fixing themselves with scrap pieces is technically astonishing. And while scenes like that probably came from Kubricks origional vision there are also some scenes that are very Speilberg. Many of which have to do with David's interactions with his mother. All of this comes together as a masterpiece, the music by John Williams is great, the special effects ffrom ILM are top notch, the acting is superb, and the story is emotional and though provoking. PS: The Jeannie Salla mystery continues...
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Summary: A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Review: PINOCHIO 2001. SPEILBURG MUST HAVE SAWDUST FOR BRAINS ON THIS ONE! NOT UP TO PAR WITH HIS OTHER WORKS. THE ONLY GOOD PART WAS TEDDY SEWING HIS SELF BACK TOGETHER ALL THE TIME. SAVE YOUR MONEY AND SEE SOMETHING ELSE
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Summary: Very Disappointing!
Review: This movie was just a notch above "Howard the Duck". Critics will probably love this movie because of the directors involved but the movie did not cut it for me. There are some good individual performances by Law and Osment but do not believe the hype!! It will be viewed as great because it finished #1 at the box office but that does not make it a good movie. The story line is all over the place. I give Spielberg credit for being true to Stanley Kubrick's work but it is not Spielberg!
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Summary: Should I say Perfect?
Review: Nothing is perfect, but A.I. is probably as close as we can get to perfection. There was something like a quest: a quest to know, a quest to understand, and a quest waiting for the impossibles to be possible.... It was imagination, and the limitation of it. Steven Spielberg understands movie, and has that gift of fantasy. It was this mastery combination that made me constantly craving for more during those two or so hours. Great satisfaction came when the surprises were reavealed, and amazement was the only thing that was driving my blood. Ah, what enjoyment and enlightenment, if only priceless is the right word.... The greatest human character is to love.... Thank you.
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Summary: A.I.... An disappointing movie
Review: Tonight I went to see the Movie A.I. Before I see it, I have a very high expection of this movie, epsecially the topic it is going to touch. However, I feel very disappointed when I walked out the theater. To be frankly, this movie [is bad]. An important issue, which was stated in the very first beginning of the movie about whether a human will love a robot that programmed to love them, were not touched deep enough in this movie. Although the first part of the movie did try to show the audience the reaction human will have when facing a machine that has passion, and love, the second part of the movie is totally a failure. A robot looked for blue fair for his wish? What is that? In the future, the world of large existance of A.I. are inevitable, how to deal with the relationship between human being the these A.I. are very important, especially these machines are not just a rational machines but a creature that has feeling. They are REAL. The only part of movie I can give credit is the music, when comparing to the rest of the movie. Seeing this movie for entertainment is ok, want to know something about the issue regarding A.I.? You better go somewhere else.
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Summary: Don't your time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: My husband and I saw this movie today and regret it completely. We left feeling "Ripped Off". Not only did we waste the ticket price but felt we'd wasted 2 1/2 hours of our time! I felt the movie went no-where and in the end didn't care about the boy AT ALL! I heard other people in the audience whispering: "This is STUPID!" We will tell everyone we know not to see this loser. It doesn't deserve a star but I had to enter a rating!
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Summary: No Signs of Intelligent Life Artificial or Otherwise
Review: This film was a dreadful disappointment, a mindless pastiche of everything from The Wizard of Oz to Clockwork Orange to Blade Runner, with no real point of view and no narrative drive. It begins with promise and has some wonderfully creepy moments when you start to understand how tricky life might become with a child robot who is capable of genuine emotion, but instead of staying with this idea and teasing out its implications, the movie stumbles into an episodic sequence in which the music has to keep signalling us that something emotionally significant is happening and each new turn of events feels less related to anything that has come before; the last third of the film is interminable and full of talky explanations that feel contrived and implausible, and an intrusive voice-over only makes matters worse. A dispiriting waste of the considerable talents of Haley Joel Osment and Jude Law. I couldn't wait to be released.
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