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Summary: terrible film
Review: I expected the first time i saw this movie to see a film with great special effects,a great plot,and great characters.I got none.The special effects in this movie are not good they same like some cheesey 70's style special effects.Also the plot is horrible,it doesn't even make much sense,a family adopts a robot-boy then decide to get rid of him when their son comes out of a coma,terrible.Then he goes in search of a ferry.I mean that is pathetic.Also i hated the characters in this movie,like Jude Law who plays a robot gigolo,and that Haley Joel Osment is pathetic as a robot.This is definitely one of Spielberg's worst if not the worst.By the way i found the ending to be qiet gay.The only reason i am giving this movie 2 stars is because the dvd is loaded,but that doesn't mean buy it stay away from this.
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Summary: One of the most important movies
Review: If your favorite type of movie is Action, you won't like A.I. If you thought that 2001: A Space Odyssey was slow and boring, you won't like A.I. Buy widescreen edition
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Summary: A flawed work of art, A.I. is still one of the year's best.
Review: When watching A.I., one gets the feeling that this is not your everyday conventional movie, and it is definitely not anything like any of Spielberg's other pieces. While his touch is definite in this film, there is nonetheless a darker, more sadistic and cynical feel to this that smells strongly of Stanley Kubrick, of whom this was a pet project for. What is interesting to see in this film is that while Kubrick did not actually direct this film, Spielberg tried to do it Kubrick style -and ended up with a very unusual but unique film that was a mix of both talents. The first half is almost magical and enchanting, and reminded me strongly of another film I love extremely, Edward Scissorhands. In both, the movie flowed along like a fairy tale, but at the same time, you knew that the fairy tale would end. And that is where Edward Scissorhands and A.I. are both unusual. The happily ever after part really comes first, and the obstacles come after, which of course leaves you inevitably with no fairy tale ending as it has already happened. David's quest to find the Blue Fairy and become a real boy is reminiscent of Pinnochio, but is much more sad as we, the audience know that the Blue Fairy cannot exist...or can she?
In fact, David's world seems almost like a sci-fi fairy tale come true -at a first glance that is. Taking a closer look, you will see many wrongs in it, especially with the treatment of the robots at Flesh Fairs -the cruelty there far surpasses most of the cruelty in our [humans] history which is pretty darn bad. His world can seem like a dream come true at first, but can turn around 180 degrees and suddenly become the darkest nightmare you've ever known. All performances were brilliant, and all involved captured the mood of the movie. However, Osment was exceptional in an already ingenious cast, and I personally feel this is one of the most underrated performances of the year. The second half of the movie, on his quest to become a real boy so that his mother will love him, David encounters Gigolo Joe, who decides to help him on his quest. There are several times where the movie seems to end, but starts going again in this section. This second half is somewhat flawed, and while some would say the last thirty minutes ruined the movie, I wouldn't go that far. The introduction of some entirely new characters altogether at this point is startling, and while it was more negative for the movie than positive, it still provided for some interesting "food for thought". (SPOILER: Yes, I know they weren't aliens) The ending is very open to interpretation however. It is really up to each person to decide for themselves exactly what happened to David. For me however, the last ten minutes were some of the best moments in a movie from 2001, and enraptured me as the tale came to a close. Although fate may not have been kind on David, in that last bittersweet scene before the movie ends, you can almost see in David's eyes that he captured everything that happened that final day into a mosaic of memories imprinted in his mind forever.
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Summary: I think, therefor I slept
Review: Thank goodness Mr. Kubrick was spared the pain of having to view this stinker. If you value your sanity avoid this at all costs.
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Summary: This is a terrible film
Review: It should have ended approximately one hour sooner than it did. The story just dragged on and on, it was really painful.
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Summary: Spielburg Dog Paddles in the Deep End
Review: A.I. This film has been a major disappointment to the many that were hoping for either a Kubrick or a Spielburg film, but when you pour hot water over cold the result is simply luke warm.
First let me point out that in the first scene of the film William Hurt actually uses the phrase, "There's the rub", which is a hanging offense in 32 states and was as well in England until the repeal of the death penalty. Spielburg, the "writer" at fault, reminds us in this scene why his literary talents have mostly been directed towards ghost stories or potato mountains by throwing in big words like "conundrum" and declaring that " to create an artificial being has been the the dream of man since the birth of science," which is both daring and untrue. We also discover the first sign of many, that Spielburg is in far greater control of the film than he is of Kubrick's vision, when Hurts character asks a robot to undress and stops her before she exposes more than her neck.
What we don't know is that this is as good as the movie will get for another hour, where the Shakespearian blasphemy seems to have only been a foreshadowing of the deathlike slumber that I devoutly wished for the human characters in the movie. I realize that it must have been difficult for the actors to deliver their unusual and unbelievable lines, but they should have been able to hide the look of sickness and disgust that seems to plague them all ( save the mystically gifted Osment ) throughout the scenes at home. The best part about this segment of the film is that on DVD you can skip it, just go to chapter 14 and backtrack to about 52 minutes into the film.
Gigolo Joe is a lover robot who is played by Jude Law, whose charm and talent manage to dispel the distaste of the acting disaster duo, Frances O'Connor and Sam Robards. The next 48 minutes are interesting, beautiful, and save an absurd cameo by Chris Rock, enjoyable. In fact if you simply skip ahead to this part you create a little mystery story that might just make the ending worthwhile; however if you watch all of AI you will be greatly disappointed. If you like to play it safe, all you have to do is wait until Osment and Law are outside Professor Hobby's office and just skip ahead to the credits. At least you can miss the cr@p that happens in the office, which is proof to me that Kubrick didn't give Spielburg anything here to butcher, and Steven just tried to put in something to be "dramatic".
The double ending of AI has been of great concern to many people who would prefer a shorter movie with one ending, at any rate, I like neither. I personally would prefer the second one if it were not so badly overexposed; I guess Steven wanted to reward the audience with a migraine after lumbering through a film that would have been twice as good if he had just let somebody else write it.
Ultimately Spielburg lacks the ability to make a film like AI, and Kubrick is at fault for believing he could. While this film is actually better than I let on, against my better judgment I wish it had never been made. That probably doesn't make much sense, but then neither did the movie. **1/2 for two great performances by Osment and Law, cinematography, and s/fx
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Summary: boring, horrible story...
Review: the 1 star is only for the amazing special fx. the whole story is just awfully boring and pointless...
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Summary: About Artificial Intelligence:A.I
Review: The Reason I like this movie is because even though he may be playing a robot he is much like a child well yeah because he was programed like that. I thought he was very funny and sweet in this movie. but when monica decides to make david her son , he becomes loving and so... so real and he in some what ways acts like a boy. and all that kept him going was the thought of his mother. and at the end of the best movie ive ever seen he got what he wanted to be with his mother and he finally fell asleep. I truly think this is the best movie ive ever seen and I bet you I can get backup on that! I am proud to announce that Haley Joel is the star future!!! P.S and from the bottom of my heart I give my best wishes to Haley joel osment!!
By: Rebecca Fisher 12 years old
( haley if your there ... WHOOO YOU GO BOY YEAH YEAH YOU GO BOY YOU CAN DO IT YOU KNOW IT JUST DO YOUR BEST AND SHOW IT... Well you do already have the brains not to mention the totally hottness!! I,d say you have got it made!!!:)
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Summary: Simplistic portrayal of our transhuman future.
Review: In the movie, "Artificial Intelligence," the future of technology in the world is depicted, namely with man creating a thinking being. A woman's son died in childhood, so she had his body suspended in the cryonics lab, with the hope of reviving him to life when the technology was feasible. Meanwhile, scientists had been creating "mechas"-- robots that look and act like humans and are designed for some specific, sole reason-- some purpose to serve. David is the first of a kind of mechas, however. He looks exactly like a human, with real skin and hair and all outward appearances of a person. The main advance of David is that he has the capacity to love. He was programmed to love his mother, and the reason David was created was for him to love her, to kind of replace her lost son. Inside, David is mechanical and robotic. He has no internal organs, he does not eat, breathe, or sleep. But through the movie, ask yourself whether David really is human. The moral dillema is that although David will love his mother, will she, and other humans, love him? The humans in this society are violently opposed to the Mechas. They even hold a "Flesh Fest-- A Celebration of Life" where they violently demolish mechas. When David's turn comes, the crowd breaks out into riot to prevent him from being destroyed since he seems like a human to them. People think that it is not morally wrong to neglect or harm any robot or computer, no matter how sophisticated, because it cannot feel pain. While David can feel pain, even the earlier mechas could clearly feel emotional pain, such as rejection, although not physical pain. 2000 years later, the oceans had been frozen over and all humans have vanished. Some aliens explore the earth, amazed at finding and reviving David, simply because he once knew real humans. Neither the aliens themselves, nor David, they say, are living beings. It was living beings, they conclude, who are the greatest thing to exist in the universe. The aliens therefore seek to allow David happiness and through a hair sample, somewhat recreate David's "mom" which he so desperately had been seeking. They also created the illusion of the "blue fairy" which David had been seeking. He believed that this fairy could turn a mecha into a human, a "real boy." When he found a statue of the blue fairy under water, he got trapped there in his vessel for 2000 years and eventually frozen into place. After the aliens revived him, he embraced the statue, only for it to symbolically crumble. The statue stands for a greater power that people have a need to believe in, like God. Throughout the movie, David was teased and even hated by the humans for not being "real." He wanted so badly to be a real life human. But David is real. I think the humans envied him. The main differences between him and humans are that he doesn't need to eat, breathe, or sleep to "live" and he can never die in the way humans do. If I had the option of not needing to eat, breathe, or sleep, and being able to live indefinitely without suffering any aging, I would take it! Sure, David has been programmed, but haven't we all? We all are programmed by our genes, environment, upbringing, etc. I give this movie a mediocre rating because I think it is a simplistic portrayal of the future as affected by technology. If you want to delve deeper into the ideas that this movie attempted to explore, research the topic of Transhumanism, namely transhumanism.org. This movie is only about one aspect of transhumanism: the creation of AI. There's a lot more to it than that.
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Summary: Too Long to sit through...
Review: this movie was mostly boring except for a few moments in the middle where more AI's were included in the carnival scene. The AI child's 'pet' being left alone at the long drawn out ending is what made my 12 year old sad. She didn't care for the movie at all except for the kids teddy.
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