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Summary: AI= Awe Inspiring AI= Alienates Idiots
Review: I'd love to take the high road and bash this film to pieces, but I can't. AI: Artificial Intelligence is a very well crafted film that succeeds on many levels. The film's plot is intriguing and captivates the viewer for almost the entire running time of the film (well over 2hrs 30mins). Based on the premise of families who cannot conceive or have lost children to tragedy, a MECCA child named DAVID is born. He is taken in and programmed to love only one person FOREVER. David's journey is long and frightening but rewarding. Haley Joel Osment, child or not, is one of the finest living actors. AI will cement his status in hollywood as a top notch child actor and even (eventually)leading man. NO other child actor could have even come close to pulling the empathy out of the audience that Osment does. He is simply incredible. Jude Law's role is very overplayed and less essential to the overall plot than I had originally perceived. Nonetheless, he does a fine job as Gigolo Joe, a suave ladies man who hooks up with David by mere chance. AI contains some of the most breathtaking computer animation ever seen on the screen, especially in the city and in the underwater sequences. Many people seem content to bash AI simply because it is not Kubrick's COMPLETE vision. To those people I say, who better than Steven Spielberg to finish Kubrick's vision. I am a hardcore Kubrick devotee but I loved the ending of AI (one of the few). The contrasting directorial styles of Kubrick(dark) and Spielberg(light) meld into a perfect nightmare of a fairy tale. Many people have said that Spielberg's ending is too happy. Personally, I found the ending unsettling and eerie even more so than Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" or "Full Metal Jacket." Overall, AI: Artificial Intelligence will go down in history as one of the greatest film achievements of all-time. I wholeheartedly endorse this film for purchase.
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Summary: I liked it!
Review: Before watching this film, I read a lot of the reviews posted on this site. I quickly came to the conclusion that people either loved this movie or hated it.
So, I took a chance and ended up liking the movie. The subject matter was facinating, the special effects were wonderful, and darn it, I want a Teddy!
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Summary: A movie that you actually think about afterwards!
Review: This movie is great! It is truly a science fiction movie and is done fantastically with every bit of technology at Spielburg's fingertips. Many people are searching life for things they can never have, if only they could search a little longer. David, played by Haley Joel Osment, is searching too. Only since he is mechanical "mecha" instead of "orga" organic, he can search and wait a lot, lot longer to find what he wants. The emotions that this movie evokes make you feel great. It really has a wonderful ending that makes you feel good! This movie shows what folly people are capable of in their search for love and how they mistakingly pass this on to creatures with "Artificial Intelligence". Bravo!
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Summary: When Woody dies maybe Oliver Stone can complete his film
Review: A truely horrible attempt. These two directors have nothing in common, and I have no doubt that Kubric is spinning in his grave over this one. Some of the special effects were SO cheesy - like the wolf-head motorcycles and the baloon shaped like the moon. Nice cinematography, beautifully shot, but a rambling, incoherent, overly-sentimental piece of dogy doo. One of the few movies to cause me to audibly groan in a movie theatre. ("And then...2000 years passed"...argh!) To the reviewer who compared those who didn't like this movie to their parents who didn't like "2001"...huh? 100's of years from now 2001 will still be a classic while AI will be collecting dust along side Ishtar and Howard the Duck. Again, to review, a very bad film.
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Summary: DRIBBLE
Review: This movie is terrible. I hope that I can save one person from seeing this movie with this review. The plot makes no sense. The movie drags on forever. Everytime you think the pain will end, it continues. I do not want to give anything away, but the ending is one of the stupdiest endings of all time. Please save yourself the money and skip this one. E.T. and 2001 were never supposed to be morphed into one film.
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Summary: A remarkable movie
Review: I watched this movie expecting disappointment. I had read the marginal reviews and, coupled with a fact that this was a movie that paralleled Pinnochio, was really expecting something very hoaky that was geared for mass market appeal. In addition, I am skeptical of any movie with a child actor lead ... which all to frequently translates into a precocious kid being given adult lines with the idea being that the audience will find it cute. I was wrong on all accounts. This is an amazing movie. I was mesmerized by it. Those that speak negatively of this film are doing it a severe disservice. I can say that it is not a movie for everyone, and that I understand why many people would not be captiveatd by it. But more importantly, I can say that many will decide that this is one of their all time favorite pictures. To unilaterally label it as a marginal movie is totally inappropriate. It was excellent. On this one, you have to view it and make your own call.
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Summary: SPOOKY
Review: THIS MOVIE IS VERY SPOOKY. IT IS A VISUAL TREAT. IT IS ENTERTAINING AND DISTURBING ALL AT THE SAME TIME. MY WIFE CRIED BUCKETS OF TEARS. IT IS VERY SPOOKY. THE CHRIS ROCK MECHA AT THE FLESH FAIR WAS HILLARIOUS. THE IMAGE OF HIS SMILING FACE SMASHING INTO THE CAGE WAS PRICELESS. ONE THING THAT WASN'T REALLY EXPLAINED WAS WHY SOME PEOPLE HATED THE MECHA'S AND THE OTHERS THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE THE BEST THING SINCE SLICED BREAD.JUDE LAW ABSOLUTELY STEALS THE SHOW AS GIGGALO JOE!!! "HEY JOE WADDA YA KNOW???" AND THIS MOVIE IS THOUSANDS OF TIMES BETTER THAN BICENTENIAL MAN, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE SIMILAR. I HAD HEARD BAD REVIEWS ON THIS MOVIE AND I CAN SEE WHY SOME PEOPLE DON'T LIKE IT, BUT YOU REALLY HAVE TO LOOK DEEPER AND FIND ALL THE NUANCES THAT THE FILM OFFERS. NOT A KID'S FILM AT ALL. VERY SPOOKY, VERY ENTERTAINING , AND VERY DISTURBING.
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Summary: A.I. is remarkable filmmaking
Review: First, Haley: Following his work in "The Sixth Sense" and "Pay It Forward," Haley Joel Osment's convincing "A.I." portrayal of a robot child who gradually becomes more human completes a trio of outstanding performances. We may well be witnessing the accomplishments of the finest boy actor in the history of American cinema. (Ask yourself, "If not Haley, then who?" and start working back from present day. Pretty soon you're all the way back past Dean Stockwell and Freddie Bartholomew, and still no rival has emerged. Haley is left standing above them all.) Second, the heart of the film: "A.I." explores the allegorical territory of two questions: What does it mean to be human? and What are the responsibilities of creators to their sentient creations? Its answers are not flattering to humanity. In "A.I." the behavior of the robots is almost always more admirable than that of the humans. Young David (Haley's character) yearns to become human. In one telling moment in the second act, without realizing it, he does. Contrary to his programming, he files into a rage and murders another David, the robotic equivalent of his younger brother, Cain slaying Abel. The filmmakers' true genius is revealed in what happens next: William Hirt's character, the creator and father-equivalent of both Davids, enters the room and registers no shock, disappointment, or even acknowledgment of what has just happened. It is the worst possible response, because it underscores the unimportance of the creation to the creator. The indictment of the human race is complete, the failure in its obligations to its technological children is total. Finally, the third act: Some critics have attacked it, but I think it appropriate. David learns, as all humans do, that there is no love that does not end in loss. To make artificial beings who can love, and to make no provision for them to deal with loss, is ethically reprehensible. The inevitability of loss can be temporarily skirted, though not averted, only by something approaching the scale of divine intervention. In this film, that is the arrival of empathic alien robot archaeologists. If the reason why David's human mother could be recreated for only a single day feels a bit contrived, the alternative proves less appealing upon examination. Had she lived longer, she would have begun to miss her husband, her biological son, and her life beyond her relationship with David. That would have made him unhappy, and, in the end, he would have lost her anyway. "A.I." is a heart-wrenching, thought-provoking film, one of the best ever made. I have two thumbs; they are both up.
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Summary: The essence of Kubrick and Speilberg
Review: Haley Joel Osment and Jude Law are amazing in Stanley Kubrick's swansong. A world veiw this misanthropic could have only come from Kubrick. Unfortunately, Spielberg's heavy hand, usually in the form of a fist, is always crashing in with bombast. The computer generated ending sells the audience short, as it denies the pleasure of using one's own imagination to complete the movie going experience.
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Summary: Magical Movie!!
Review: This has to be one of the greatest stories I have ever seen on the screen!! I have never witnessed a movie with such magic. The boy that plays David should have won an award for his magnificent role. How can somebody get attatched to a robot in a movie and actually feel as if you love this robot? Well, I did!! Women, make sure you have a box of kleenex with you because you will need it. Maybe even most men! lol.
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