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Summary: A Beatufil Movie of the Human Spirit
Review: Even though I find this film a darker and more ominous version of either E.T. or Pinnochio, I still find it the most beautiful movie I have ever seen. I don't know why it didn't do so well in the theatres but this is a film that should be remembered for years to come. Spielberg has created a dark world of the future but to those who have good eyes can see the light (David). Now if you think about it real hard you know that David doesn't precisely know the difference between love and hate but never the less Osment's perforance is very heatwarming.
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Summary: This movie is terribly over-rated
Review: I watched this film on the big screen with a group of new friends while taking a college summer course. We were all excited to see Spielberg's newest masterpiece. Sadly, we were all disappointed as we watched a movie with very cold characters. There was little or no love here.In addition to the coldness of the whole movie, the lack of a believable, or interesting, plot was too much to bear. The entire movie was a series of anti-climaxes. Just when you thought something interesting and exciting was about to happen, the scene was over.Just not a good movie.... 1 star? No stars in my book. A thumb to the ground.
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Summary: Issues
Review: As a guy came to Japan as a government scholar, the scene where the 'mom' left David, it started. I started to question myself -- What is the reason for living alone apart from my family which loves me to the possible extend -- especially my dear mom. The movie went on..... Tears really came over when David started to beg the blue fairy to change him into a real boy -- to be really loved. I was in a flood of tears when aliens were surfing and everything where destroyed. I realized our life in this universe is short and we should be making our best efforts to make ourselves happy and be a light -- making others feel their best as well. The movie not only shows, but rolled down my own thinking and helped me to understand the reason for existing. Unlike David, I am already a human. David's dream day is possible without so much of pain. It is the greatest pleasure that I am loved by my mom so deeply. She will love me regardless of what ever I am or whatever I do. It does not mean that being loved and leaving my mom alone sadly is a wise idea. The real happiness is, being loved and loving in turn. I imagine myself as a star in the sky, who cannot shine without the others shine. I am thankful for that movie.
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Summary: Really special
Review: This move is full of answers for not yet formulated questions. Fifty percent of the story is explicitly told, the other half if revealed through the film's unique atmosphere. Watching A.I. you learn what R.I. (Real Intelligence) or "Intelligence" (after all) is... you end up loving "mecas" and by that mean you discover the full dimension of love. Be aware of strong emotions, including brut cruelty. If you don't like crying in front of others, watch this move along... but don't miss it.
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Summary: I see Kubrick but feel Spielberg
Review: I am a Kubrick fan but I do not think he could have done this without Spielberg. I choked up at the end which indicates to me that I felt the character, which never happens with Kubrick movies. If we take out the surplus of the movie we are left with a young boy who will always stay young and was made to love his mother until the end of time but cannot compete with her husband's love for their own son.
A very endearing beautiful story, a bit lengthy but beautiful nevertheless.
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Summary: Ultimately Terrible
Review: Starts okay but ultimately ghastly. The early scenes are the best. I loved the edgy atmosphere between roboboy David and his 'real life' brother. The robot gets jealous and starts trying to do his brother in. And one truly memorable scene, where David answers the phone, and transmits the message, live, through his own body. Eek! At that point, I thought it would turn out fine, and my female companion forecast lots of blubbing to come. Also I have to stick up for Frances O'Connor who I thought gave a commendable performance as the torn mother, and alone amongst the cast showed some restraint. However through bad editing we miss any rationale for why or how she bonds with the thing - one second she's icing him out, the next she's suddenly reading out the imprint code to make him permanent. Did I miss something? You know the moment, the very second it goes wrong, with a graunching, sickening lurch. David starts quoting the Pinnocchio fable as opposed to living and moving within it, the grand facade crumples in a heap, and never recovers. Maybe you should tattoo it on my forehead, just in case I didn't get it. After that it just goes from bad to worse. The Flesh Fair is on the verge of acid-bathing him, when the mong-like rent-an-extra audience do a miraculous 360 about turn and rise up to rescue him - hurling what appear to be small bean bags at the ringmaster. Ouch, ouch, he says - don't hit me. The worst crowd scene I have ever witnessed on film. Jude Law appears and disappears for no apparent reason. There is no interaction or journey of learning between the two escapees - they just string along together without insight or incident as the story limps from one place to another. And the pinnocchio allegory gets ever more irritating until you start to wonder whether it wouldn't actually be more fun to indulge in a little light woodwork. Finally - the multiple endings, each one worse than the last. Truly the whiff of desperate script conferences is in the air. Umm, what next. We're stuck. Okay - fast forward a coupla thousand years. Okay - the world turns to ice. Like it. And some aliens come. And they rescue him from the bottom of the sea. The end! No - let's do some more. Let's bring his mum back to life. The end! No let's kill her again. etc....... All accompanied by an astonshingly bad voiceover, in the worst English accent I've heard since Dick Van Dyke - presumably to lend some bogus air of poshness. They should have left him gawping up from the bottom of the sea. This would be a reasonable ending but Spielberg has to lever in a happy end. If Blade Runner was the Ben and Jerry's of dystopian sci-fi robots-who-yearn-to-be-real flicks, and Gattaca was the enjoyable own-label Sainsbury's version, then AI ranks as a 1973 Lyons Maid rectangular brick on a soggy wafer. On a brighter note I liked the teddy.
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Summary: Cut the last 30 and you get an extra star
Review: Basically, Spielberg is not the man and hasn't been for quite a while. Go back to doing E.T. like things. Or, go back to doing Jurassic Park or Jaws like things. This movie has part of those lineages, but also contains the overly melodramatic lineage of movies like Saving Private Ryan. Ugh. Stay with one line/vision for the film. By far, the best line throughout the movie is the Stanley Kubrik line. If you stop the movie when it comes to it's logical, yet depressing, ending, it's a good movie (deserving 4 stars). Haley Joel Osment is amazing. I think he might actually be a robot (or uebermarionette). No kid of his age should be able to act that well.
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Summary: A MOVIE OF THREE PARTS
Review: This is not like your normal Kubrick film or your usual Speilberg movie its somewhere between the two. Its slowly paced giving you more time to think over the moral implacations of having a robot child which is too human to be ignored and too robotic to be loved as a son. It is very much a film of three parts, the first section takes place mainly in Davids new home after he is adopted, the secound section takes place mainly in and around Rouge City where David seaches for the blue fairy. Sadly the third section of the film (which has a very difrent solarized look) isn't as good as the other two, after the cold drama of the last to sections this segment comes across as pure mush - it's not that bad, its just out of place. The movie's photography is amazingly good, as are Haley Joel Osment and Jude laws Performances. Jude Law oozes charm and karisma as Joe and the middle segment of the film in which he domanates is my favoret. I was glued to my seat for the whole running time. worth watching
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Summary: What the?
Review: I'm sorry, maybe it's just me but I can't helping stating that this has to be one of the wrost movies I've seen in my life!
Can you say boring? Can you say doesn't make sense at all? The first 30 minutes of the movie were O.K. But it went downhill after that. This movie is a prime example of a director attempting to make a deep movie with a meaningful lesson but failed on all levels. I don't recommend this movie unless you want to go to sleep or you don't have anything else to do.
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Summary: Could've been great with a major cut
Review: The way I always look at this movie is that its divided into 3 acts: 1) adjusting to the family 2) on his own with Gigolo Joe 3) the aliens. This movie would be WONDERFUL and deeply moving if it ended at the end of part 2 in the flooded Coney Island and just left out the whole Alien finale'. It would have been a proper ending, and profoundly powerful. Instead, when the audience is on the verge of tears, its time to reverse direction totally and create a totally different, ultra sappy ending. Dear, god it was horrible.
Up to then the movie was fine. I begrudgingly admit that Haley Joel acted wonderfully. Jude Law stole the movie, and Spielberg directs with wonderful artistic flair. Up to the end, it has the makings of a great film, but the ultrasap ending ruins the whole movie.
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