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Summary: Brilliant
Review: This movie is truly amazing. A astonishing sight to look at, a wonderful story told. This is a challenging film. Most people who like straight forward films fed to them, without any thinking probably won't care for this one. A lot of people thought it went on too long, and the first time I saw it I felt the same. But after viewing it again, I realized it was done the right way. I mean, COME ON, it's a film from STEVEN SPIELBERG from a project orginally started by STANLEY KUBRICK. That alone makes it worth the price of admission. If you surrender your self to the cinematic beauty of this underrated film, then you'll find something truly wonderous.
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Summary: The Greatest Film of 2001
Review: Next to Memento, A.I. is the greatest film I saw at all last year. This is a great DVD with several fantastic special features that enhance the viewing experience the second, third, even tenth time around. This film, however, is not for weak movie-goers. Only true fans of film for the art will be able to understand the testing and outgoing attempt this film made. Don't listen to the people who told you it was no good. These are the people who think a film's realistic qualities should be dumbed down to please the less risky crowd. A.I. must be seen with an open mind and understanding for real human nature.
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Summary: AI Are we ready for this??? I think not
Review: I believe the message that this movie is trying to get accross is that we are headed for a disposeable society which will include people. Also do not mess with GOD'S work as we will only make our life worse. The movie it self is good and Haley is an excellent actor in this movie. Really you must watch this and see what we are doing to ourselves slowly but surely.
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Summary: It has its moments
Review: When Spielberg isn't rewriting World War II, he seems to be trying to resurrect the insight, heart, and imagination he brought to his early, wonderful movies like ET. But when it's gone, it's gone. AI is watchable only for the remarkable Haley Joel Osment (who isn't seeing dead people in this movie, but he might as well have been) and the always splendid Jude Law. Hey, even the Teddy (as in mechanical teddy bear with functional intelligence) was good. The first half of the movie isn't terrible; the second half sinks like a stone. No amount of acting talent could rescue this turgid, overlong melodrama. Not even the return of those onion-headed, big-hearted stick people (from Close Encounters. Remember them?) could rescue this story. It's worth seeing for the special effects, and for Haley Joel and Jude Law. It has few other redeeming features. The Pinnochio theme gets worked to death; the adults are all dolts and so are most of the kids. Only the mechanical people have hearts. Duh.
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Summary: Dream
Review: Sentimental mawkish trite-the same old story of innocence fighting against all the odds.None of this seems to matter to me because in a world that has become as unbearably unemotional and selfish as the futuristic one portrayed here,a movie that makes you cry is a valuable commodity.Artificial Intelligence has the cold clinical detached atmosphere of Kubrick's 2001 or A Clockwork Orange with human characters trapped in a suppressive manmade hell.But now the only human left is a manufactured robot.In lesser hands,this film would be an overbearing mess.But just like E.T. or Close Encounters,Spielberg radiates childlike wonder instead of obvious cloying mechanics.Kubrick would have made a beautiful film but could not capture the element of innocence.Because Kubrick never fully believed that concept could exist-perhaps as a fleeting dream in the eyes of the disillusioned.Reality only holds lost souls.The reason people go to the movies is to escape their lives,to regain their senses,and have the ability to feel.And this is why this film makes every other movie made last year look shallow and empty.Because film has become product instead of poetry.And some people think poetry is mawkish and trite but it is never as expendable as a dollar bill.
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Summary: We should have listened
Review: My wife and I had heard, from friends and family, that this movie wasn't very good but decided to rent it and see for ourselves. As the title of this review states, we should have listened. The only reason for 1 star is the great acting of Haley Osment, although I must admit that I kept waiting for him to say, "I see dead people". The movie is extremely slow (In fact, halfway through the movie my wife went to bed while I toughed it out through the end) and was basically Pinochio meets Terminator II........except Pleasure Island wasn't kids being turned into donkeys. My wife and I kept looking at each other wondering when the movie was really going to start.Do not waste your time (2.5 hours) nor your money on this movie, it is definitely not worth it.
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Summary: Worst movie ever!!!
Review: I saw this in the theater. Now I'll admit, I'm normally a pretty easilly entertained audience member, but this was terrible. I get angry just thinking about how bad it is. The plot dragged on forever and there was barely even a climax. I would have walked out, but I kept hoping it might change and suddenly be good. That time never came. I wish I could tell you there was one good part, but that would be lying! The whole thing [was terrible].
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Summary: Neils Rhyming Review
Review: A.I was a film that Spielberg never meant to make
But the fact that he did is not a mistake
It was the film Stanley Kubrick had running in his veins
(Kubrick made 2001 and in his Shining Jack Nicholson went insane)
But Kubrick died before realizing his vision
Of the android boy with a seemingly real emotion
Let me just say, this film is impressive
In scope, in vision, Spielberg is not submissive
To the aspects of this story that run beyond his realm
And could have been excised with this man at the helm
But this film is made with integrity and wonder
And an appetite of the imagination that never comes asunder. The boy is a construct in a future where the oceans have risen
Populations must be limited, one must be approved to have children
Androids are functional, filling gaps for the lonely and rich
They can look like humans or a teddy bear that knows how to stitch
But they are only as real as the programming within
Until David is built and so an incredible journey begins
The story comments on this future, it questions its morality
And explores the human fear if this were a reality
The look of the film is dark and possible
Rich with both colorless and colorful
The effects are sweeping, an achievement of our day
But not overwhelming to disenchant or dismay
They are elements of the story but not pillars of it
And provide the real sense of one future unfit. Haley Joel Osment is no less than outstanding
Such talent so young, it is rich and rewarding
This film relies on the character being more than assembled parts
But less than real, making us question the instinct of our hearts
It as a pleasure to witness and experience his portrayal
Of a machine searching for answers to a cruel betrayal
That asked him to be real and punished him for failing
And we are witness to the quest of the boy, assailing
A path both fantastical and beyond imagination
Helped by friends of earlier creation. It must be said that this movie is truly bold
Spielberg is faithful to the way Kubrick would have told
This surprising tale of something as innocent as love
But becomes a story, skillfully rising above
Clichés and clumsy tokens of tired stories
Mired in character shells and general inability's
To be original, sharp and honest with intent
To be just a story with greatness inherent
A.I marches beyond most movies in the last ten years
And when they come, they are most definitely real tears. ***** out of *****
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Summary: Good special effect..bad plot..
Review: Yes, just like my reviews title. The storyline for this movie ..is almost interesting.. (just almost). The scene was set in the future and the story is about a cute robotic boy who was trying to be a real humam.. He believed if he's a real boy, his mommy (actually was a person he was programmed to love ) would love him in return.. So he's searching for a blue fairy who he believed can make his dream come true.. At the very end, the hero turned out to be a group of high-tech futured creatures... Well, the story can't really make you feel anything and now and then, it made you wonder why it didn't come to an end yet... Anyway, good special effect though..specially the nanny robot and Jude Law's robotic play boy.. So if you really want to see this movie, rent it.. only if you're Spielberg fanatic, then you can buy it..
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Summary: Curiously unaffecting
Review: I'm a big fan of "failed" Speilberg movies. I thought "Empire of the Sun" was brilliant. That "Always" was a great romance film. That "1941" was hilarious. So mixed reviews of AI didn't put me off. Nonetheless, this film left me cold. The biggest problem for me was that the main character was a robot, and no matter how Speilberg tried to frame the audience's sympathies, I couldn't emotionally connect. To me, Osment's character had more in common with a mixmaster than with a human. Speilberg's homages to Kubrick also got in the way more than once. Particularly in the last third of the film where the music, structure and direction were clearly meant to invoke the final 20 minutes of 2001: A Space Oddysey. Two more off-putting elements: Robin William's completely dissonant cartoon/Einstein voicing of "Dr. Know" attempting to add comedy to a scene which should have been played much straighter. And a third act that is, well, out of this world. (I won't say more so as not to spoil it for you. Suffice it to say the plot twist belongs to an entirely different genre of sci-fi.) That being said, Osment's performance is remarkable. (He never blinks in the entire film.) And the special effects, particularly the "Super Toy" teddy bear, are eye-popping. "AI" is Speilberg's "Pinocchio", but you'd be better served by his "Peter Pan" ("Hook") if your in the mood for a fairy tale. Or "1941" if you want to see a Ferris wheel collapse.
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