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Summary: Boring, boring, boring....
Review: What's wrong with this movie ?? I find it difficult to explain, but there's really nothing appealling in it ... I really had a hard time watching it ... It is also disappointing because it is very different from the other Spielberg movies, which are often very bright. I don't know how I managed not to drop before the end (probably because I was still and again hoping for something pleasant to happen). I really find the whole story exhales a huge sadness. It's very cold too. I just hope to never, never get into such a world.
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Summary: Flawed but worth watching
Review: After finishing AI, I felt both moved by the story and sick of Spielberg shoving emotions down my throat. I found the ending brilliant, despite taking way too long to get there. It would have been moving enough without being drenched with gushing sentimentality. Still, give Stephen credit for doing something different, and give credit to the cast for delivering terrific performances.
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Summary: Pinocchio meets the future
Review: The Story: Haley Joel Osment plays David, a "mecha" or robot or Artificial Intelligence, who is the first child-mecha programmed to be able to love. David is placed with a couple whose only son is in a coma and not expected to recover. At the time of the story, the greenhouse effect has melted the polar caps and much of the Earth is flooded. After starting to settle in and to develop a bond with his "mother", the couple's bio-son, Martin, unexpectedly recovers. Martin is not thrilled to have been replaced, and artfully deposes David from the family. David is finally abandoned in the woods, and the film becomes much more surreal. David encounters another mecha, Gigolo Joe, who is on the run after being peripherally involved in a human murder. The two are captured by mecha-hating human religious fanatics, but escaped before being melted by acid or launched into propeller blades in the anti-mecha carnival of destruction. David goes on a quest to find the blue fairy of the Pinocchio story (his mother had read it to him), so that he can become a real boy and regain his mother's love. The journey takes him, and the viewer, much further than expected.Haley Joel Osment shines again, and shows us that "The Sixth Sense" was not a fluke. He captures David's bewilderment and passion and determination to reach his dream. Frances O'Connor is wonderful as the bereaved mother who desperately wants to accept David as real but cannot fully do so without betraying her biological son. Jude Law plays Gigolo Joe with skillful abandon and ease. John Hurt plays David's visionary creator who never quite grasps how well he has done in creating David. The first third of the story - detailing David's integration into the family - is what I expected from this movie. The last two-thirds took me to a surreal dreamworld of a future and went in directions I had not expected. Even as the story blended classic Pinocchio with futuristic A.I. technology, it also blended Stanley Kubrick's long-planned project with Steven Spielberg's eternal optimism. The ending is perfect and perfectly bittersweet.
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Summary: A Kubrick-Spielberg Gem Worth Owngin
Review: The quality of the picture and the sound on the DVD is high. The movie itself is destined to become a Sci Fi classic. In my opinion, the musical score is John Williams' best work, except for Star Wars. Stanley Kubrick, who had started work on this project many years earlier only to realize that computer animation at the time hadn't yet caught up to his vision of the film, resurrected it in the late 1990s with the intention of producing the movie and having Steven Spielberg direct. Shortly after the two men began their collaberation, Kubrick died. Spielgerg's final product has the feel of a Kubrick film, with a few Spielberg touches. I think Stanley would have been very happy with it.
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Summary: A Heart-breaking Fairy Tale
Review: Once in a while a movie comes along that connects with the longings in your soul. A.I. is such a movie. Like some other reviewers here, I was sworn off this movie by friends who had seen it before me and hated it. That aroused my curiosity enough to see it for myself.
It blew me away. It succeeded in pleasing me on so many levels: the story of a boy's longing to be loved, his epic adventures, the questions about life - real and artificial, the casting and excellent acting, and the thrilling special effects.
I can't believe the vindictiveness against Steven Spielberg I have seen among these reviews. What's your problem, people?! He truly is a master storyteller of the visual medium. So many of his films have become beloved classics, even when the Academy snobs have ignored his work, as with the magnificent Amistad.
At the time of A.I.'s release, professional film critics seemed to dwell on the collaboration between Spielberg and Kubrick in the making of this movie, as though that defined the film. They said Spielberg's optimism and lighter tone was tempered by Kubrick's cynicism, or the other way around. Granted, I imagine Spielberg honored the late Kubrick's vision, but he himself has not shied away from presenting the world in its ugliness, as with the heart-wrenching Schindler's List.
Other than musings about Kubrick and Spielberg's genius, and the long-time sci-fi love affair with robots that think and feel, A.I. offers us other lessons to consider: the treatment of children as possessions to adore or discard as we see fit (the robot David represents all unwanted children); and the longing all of us have to be whole and to be loved.
William Hurt's character brings up the question of God at the beginning of the film. He responds to a question about the ethics of creating robots that feel emotion by recalling Genesis: "Why did God create Adam?" he asks. Answering his own question, he says, "To love him," meaning the love God expected from Adam, and by extension the rationale for creating robots that love us. That's only half-true. God also created Adam because God wanted to love Adam. As selfish humans, David's creator and David's sometime mother failed to return the love they expected from David.
Don't look for a typical sappy happy ending here. This film is more Grimm's Fairy Tales than Disney. It's closer to the original Hans Christian Anderson Little Mermaid than the Disney version. It expresses longings that we know will not be fulfilled in this life.
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Summary: Horrible movie
Review: The original idea of the movie is actually good but the movie [is not good], its not just depressing but looong and nothing intresting happens,, i really dont recomend watching it.
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Summary: Brilliant, Beautiful, Tragic, and Deeply Moving.
Review: People who see this movie seem to fall into two categories: those who absolutely hate it, and those who love it because they see it for what it really is. I'm part of the latter group. This is one of the best movies ever made, sci-fi or otherwise. The events of this movie are so unexpected, the emotions so intense, the sheer scale staggering, and the issues so deep, that I cannot help but admire its beauty. When his innocent and loving motives lead him to extremely dangerous actions, his parents cannot keep him - but they love him too much to let him be destroyed. He is left feeling alienated and confused, incapable of understanding why he has been abandoned. His single drive to be reunited with his parents is beautifully idealistic, but at the same time ultimately doomed. His quest leads him through a nightmarish world with just enough of a glimmer of hope to keep him going. The Flesh Fair's motto, "A Celebration of Life," takes on a whole new meaning after an otherwise destruction-hungry crowd stands up for David's right to live, neither knowing nor caring that he isn't human. As the movie comes closer to what would seem like a dead end, David's discovery of his true nature - that he is not really unique - leads to one of the most powerful scenes in science fiction history: that of him falling off a tall building into the ocean, no longer caring whether he lives or dies. When he first meets with what he believes to be the "Blue Fairy," he touches her, and she shatters like glass in front of him. The ending is not guaranteed to satisfy everyone, but is not too depressing either, and it perfectly sums up what the movie is about. I could not imagine a more fitting end for a movie like this. Through it all, the sheer visuals are outstanding. I'm not just referring to the special effects; I'm referring to the camera angles, the lighting, the set design, everything. Even the puddle of water in front of the church serves a purpose. Watch this movie. I can't guarantee that you'll like it. If you hate it, then you will have lost nothing but two hours. If you love it, you will have gained something much, much more important.
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Summary: Best Spielberg Sci-Fi Film since Close Encounters
Review: AI creates a futuristic fantasy that examines the very foundation of the human experience. The story is about being the object of one's true selfless love. As usual, John Williams musical score helps the audience connect to myriad emotional elements. In fact, as with many films, Williams deserves as much credit as Spielberg.
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Summary: Extraordinary film!
Review: This movie is one of the best science fiction films. It combines between the mind and emotion of the mankind. Excellent pictures, story, technology,..... Highly recommended for Science ficiton fans.
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Summary: Unfairly Treated
Review: I don't understand why this movie was so unfairly treated by the critics. Sure, at first I was turned off by the names Kubrick and Osment. But after finally watching this film, it definitely is one of the best I have ever seen. Great performances, great effects, great score. No, there isn't a happy fairy-tale ending here, but the ending, I think, is perfect for the film. I believe that in the future this one will be considered a classic.
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