Rating: 
Summary: Anemic intelligence
Review: I, too, wish I could give it ZERO stars!
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The special effects can not protect,
The second-grader plot from my intellect.What an intelligent visual jewel,
To see these cutsypie kids,
In a spinach duel. They had an edge,
With American Beauty,
But they've gone downhill quickly,
And now offer us,
Punch and Judy. American Beauty, 1941 and Schindler,
I'd like to see more of these.
But to sit through Anemic Intelligence,
Well... NOT ME!
Rating: 
Summary: AI - it rocks
Review: AI is one of the best SCI-FI movies in recent years; Dark City was another one. The special effects were amazing and the story had me guessing until the end. Don't believe the comments about the last 20 minutes - it fit the movie perfectly.
Rating: 
Summary: Spielberg + Kubric = Bad Idea!
Review: as we all know, this film was originally intended to be directed by Stanly Kubric. a genius film maker who always puts a dark side to everyhting he makes. sadley he died before completing his story. then theres spielberg. another brillinat director but is on a whole differnt page. he is more on the happy go lucky side than dark and scary like kubric. it is so easy to pick out the parts of this film that are kubric and the parts that where spielberg. its like jumping back and forth between two movies! one minute there are dark cities with crime and polution, the next there is a walking teddy bear and robin williams! dont get me wrong! i think the backgrounds and special effects where wonderful but they can only do so much for a movie. thats the reason i gave this two stars. this film should have either been based on one director's ideas or not made at all. plus the ending is completly redicuous! the movie takes a serious u turn and flies off into the distance. any movie with an ending like "3000 years layer" can not be good! if the film was just kubric, it would have been fine, or if it was just spielberg, it would have been fine. but mixing the two together is like disney meets rambo! if you want a good future sci fi movie, try ridley scott's BLADE RUNNER or Katshiro Otomo's AKIRA.
Rating:
Summary: Not horrible but definately not great either.
Review: This movie is a twisted Pinnochio story. I was kind of disturbed by the similarities actually. I was expecting to see something more than that but that's all this really was. Don't get me wrong, the visualizations were amazing and the actors did a good job but about half way through the movie I found myself thinking, "This is just rediculous. Is this over yet?" One thing I will say, you can tell exactly at what point in the story Kubrick left off and Spielberg took over. Bottom line, in my opinion, if you want to see something for it's great visualizations then this isn't a bad choice. If you want to see a movie with an amazing story line, look elsewhere.
Rating:
Summary: Silly drawn out ending.
Review: I don't like precocious child actors, because they usually can't act. Haley Joel Osment is an exception, he can act better than most professional adult actors. He did a tremendous job in this movie, but the film was dragged down by the dreadful plot.
This updated Pinochio story started promisingly. It then reached a point where having built up everyones emotions, the storytellers didn't seem to be able to find a satisfying ending. So it dragged on, and on, and on, and then there wasn't a satisfying ending at all.
Surely a better ending would have been to create a whole android family (inc. 'mummy'), using the new technolgy and to adjust the audiences and android's perception of what being real, really means.
Rating:
Summary: a lot of talk about nothing
Review: I went to see this movie with great expectations, I mean Kubrick/Spielberg two of the greatest directors of out times. But I was really disappointed with it. It was too long, I almost fell asleep, the whole Kubrick's idea just disappeared in too many plots. Soemtimes it seemed like Spielberg didn't know what to do in some moments, especially in the end with the "aliens" I think it's really the worst of Spielberg's movies to date
Rating:
Summary: Hauntingly Beautiful
Review: I had heard bad reviews about this movie but they were quickly extinguished. The movie is a tad slow at first but gets very good in no time at all. The special effects & music score makes the movie worth watching by themselves. HJO's acting is light years ahead of most adult actors. The viewer is completely engrossed in David's journey through centuries to find love and "the blue fairy". Also the movie raises deep moral questions about mankind and the creation of A.I. which I'm positive we'll deal with in the near future. A must see on DVD which does justice to the beauty of the movie. A future classic!
Rating: 
Summary: Pinocchi-Opus
Review: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love "A.I." This film, which Stanley Kubrick spent his last decade preparing, tells the story of David (Haley Joel Osment), a robot boy designed, with real emotions, as a child-substitute in a society that controls its population by strictly limiting pregnancies. David is assigned by his inventor (William Hurt) to live with the Swintons (Sam Robards and Frances O'Connor), a couple whose real son, Martin, is comatose as the movie begins. When Martin miraculously recovers from his coma, David is abandoned by the family and must make his way in a world that has become hostile or indifferent to robots. Convinced that he can win back his mother's love if he becomes a real boy like Martin, David sets out on a quest for the mythic Blue Fairy from "Pinocchio" to make his wish come true. He is aided in his quest by his supertoy, Teddy (voice of Jack Angel) and the suave Gigolo Joe (Jude Law), a sex robot on the lam for a murder he didn't commit. "A.I." is first and foremost a child's fairy tale, complete with a wise-voiced narrator, an evil stepbrother, a Jiminy Cricket-like guide, and an improbable, bittersweet ending. Like many, I was dismayed when I first saw it in the theater. Despite outstanding turns by Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law and Teddy (believe it!), "A.I.'s" fairy tale nature seemed so contrary to Kubrick's previous output that I was convinced Spielberg had either ignored or botched Kubrick's instructions. Upon seeing the film in its DVD version, I've since changed my mind. The value of the DVD is twofold. One: upon repeated viewings, it becomes clear that there is a lot of Kubrick behind the film's surface sentimentality. Shots are framed in classic Kubrick style, such that the characters are the smallest elements in the frame. Gigolo Joe and Rouge City seem to be direct quotes from "Clockwork Orange." Like other Kubrick protagonists (Keir Dullea, Jack Nicholson), Haley Joel Osment assumes a tableau-like stillness in several scenes. Most importantly, "A.I." doesn't generate much affection for its human characters; indeed, the only people for which we feel any sympathy are the machines. Two: The making-of extras on the DVD make clear that Spielberg didn't hijack Kubrick's movie. This was, almost from the start, a collaborative effort between the two directors. Upon Kubrick's passing, production design and the story were more-or-less finalized, and those involved with the project testify to the fact that Kubrick was, in fact, convinced that Spielberg was better suited to direct the film. It's a comfort to know that the final product conforms so closely to the specifications of its originator. (Even composer John Williams respected Kubrick's instruction to place a quote of Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier" in the score; see if you can spot it.) No, this probably isn't the film that Kubrick would have made. But it is probably the film that Kubrick would have wanted to see. RIP Stanley; thank you, Steven. P.S. While the extras on these discs are comprehensive, I'd like to note that they contain nothing of the **INCREDIBLE** viral marketing campaign for this movie, ie. Cloudmakers.
Rating:
Summary: Ignore what others may say about it being a bad film
Review: This film is very powerful. It put to the viewer questions about being a human being and our responsibilities for our creations. If your looking for a big action sci-fi you will not find it in A.I., but if you open your mind (and heart) to what the story is saying then you will find yourself at the end of the movie wondering about what our actual future may be like. Whatever you do, open your mind when watching this movie, otherwise you just won't get it...
Highly recommend this film ! 10 stars !
Rating:
Summary: No, not a masterpiece.
Review: I really expected a lot from this movie, considering Spielberg's usual triumphs. However, I was shocked to see a movie that was composed of every possible cliche imaginable: robots replacing humans in the future, a couple whose child is in a coma "replacing" their son with a artificial one, the sibling rivalry that takes place when the comatose son awakes and meets his "brother", a Pinocchio-like boy desperately wanting to be real, the horrific vision of the earth in the future with a "Waterworld-like" environment where NYC is partically underwater, aliens reviving humans through the DNA found in a strand of hair left behind thousands of years earlier. The list goes on! On another note, I found Haley Joel Osment's performance particularly disturbing. Very much like his Sixth Sense character, he only stares at people and looks scared all of the time, over and over again repeating the same exact emotion. You'd think that as an advanced "organism", he would have greater aspirations than to be loved by a "mother" whom he knew about a week before she abandoned him in a forest to die. Overall, this is one of the worst movies that I've seen in a long time. The only good thing was the score and seeing the World Trade Center towers in their former glory, albeit partially submerged in water.
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