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Summary: Unbelievable, and disappointing
Review: While the first 2/3rds of the movie blew me away, and kept my eyes glued to the screen, the ending was disappointing.However, the first 2/3rds were so amazing that I would definitely reccomend this to anyone with any viewpoint on social responsibilty. It explores several ideas, and avoids the technical stuff on how A.I. came to be. It is the type of movie that says 'What if?'. Unfortunately, the ending seems to say 'Nevermind'.
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Summary: What a joke
Review: I saw this movie and I had a hard time staying awake. After the show I was ready to demand my money back. The story had so much potential and the oh so acclaimed Steven Spielberg can't come up with more than a lame and boring mixture of "E.T." and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". I dare state that Stanley Kubrick would not have been pleased with this result.
All of Kubrick's (and Spielberg's, too) other productions are masterpieces compared to this horrible puppet show.
This film is boring, too long, and embarrassingly bad. If you want to keep your positive impression of Spielberg's and Kubrick's work, then skip this one.
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Summary: A Chance Lost
Review: Let me first suggest that this movie, although it stars Haley Joel Osment, is not for young children. PG-13 means just that. A child of 13 might be old enough not to be given nightmares by some of the more violent scenes. Secondly, I believe that the people who put this movie together lost a great opportunity to deal with many ethical issues surrounding the concept of creating artificial intelligence, ideas covered with grace and thoroughness by Isaac Asimov, for example. In some of the first scenes of the movie, we are told that humans have some sort of responsibility toward their creations, but the explanation of that responsibility seems to be inadequate or missing altogther. So what is this movie trying to be? I think it tries to be a dark fairy tale, a morality lesson, a comedy, a tragedy, a quest, and a science fiction movie. It has many incomplete subplots and a queer double ending, both of which are curiously pessimistic about mankind. In my opinion, the movie tries to do too many things and ultimately fails to produce a cohesive theme. On an up note, Haley Joel Osment gave a good performance. Comic relief is provided by the extremely lovable Teddy (who wouldn't want to have a real live teddy bear for a buddy?) and Joe the Giggolo, played masterfully by Jude Law. I'd say the movie is worth watching just for Jude Law's astonishing capabilities as a character actor. And last but not least, the movie is lovely to look at with absolutely smashing special effects. But I warn you. You might come away from the movie like I did, feeling like something is missing.
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Summary: Can a robot surpass all expectations and become a real boy?
Review: Much of the making of this movie has been shrouded in mystery, but this much I know: Imagine a world where much of Earth lies underwater. Humans co-exist with mechanical robots called Mechas. (There are housekeeping Mechas, joke-telling Mechas, even love Mechas.) In this strange new world, one family adopts a robot that looks just like an adorable 11-year-old boy, David (Haley Joel Osment) - he is the only child Mecha that has been created - in the hopes that it will help heal old family wounds (the couple lost their real son). More than a robot, but not a "real boy," David embarks on a journey with another Mecha (Jude Law) to find out just what he really is. Remember Pinocchio? A.I. sounds like a remake of this classic fable, but leave it to director Steven Spielberg (the mastermind behind E.T. and Jurassic Park) to inject lots of heart and astounding special effects to make this movie truly unique.
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Summary: A deeply thought provoking and unsettling film
Review: I must start this review by saying that I have a seven year old nephew, who is an incredibly sweet and loving child. It was impossible for me not to see him in Haley Joel Osmet's David, and so, perhaps, I empathized more than I was meant to. I spent a great deal of the movie in tears, the concept of this totally loving child, so utterly dependant on the parent who chooses him, broke my heart. And who would create a child who could love only ONE of his parents so completely? What does this do to his relationship with the other parent? David is programmed to love, completely and without any boundaries... like a real child, and the sight of anyone rejecting that kind of loving...well, it made me cry even harder. Jude Law, as Gigolo Joe, injects a little humour, thank goodness, and some much needed companionship for a little boy lost. David's ultimate quest is not so much one of humanity, but of the love he was created to provide and so desperately needs to have returned. As for the ending...if they had left things as it seemed they would be left, I would have walked out hating this movie. As it was, I walked out, you guess it, crying. Sobbed hysterically in my car for a few minutes, just to relieve the tension. And then I called my sister the next day so I could talk to my nephew. Haley Joel Osmet is a truly gifted actor, young or not, and I know AI was not a popular film, but his performance was Oscar worthy. His David haunts me to this day.
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Summary: Finally
Review: After almost 20 years of average movies, Spielberg has finally done a picture that goes right up there, and is one that he should be remembered by. Which, of course, is all in my personal opinion which is no doubt different than yours. In mine, this man's best picture remains Close Encounter of the 3rd Kind, followed by Raiders of the Lost Ark and then Jaws. I guess Schindler's List would be a distant 5th after this one here. For one thing- it is absolutely idiotic to go on and say that Kubrick would have done this better. Fact is he didn't- he left it to Spielberg, and that moment Kubrick lost any ounce of his input to Spielbergs mercy. So it is Spielberg's picture, not Kubrick's- so stop comparing it to 2001, but to everything else that Spielberg has done. The movie, for one thing, is perfectly acted. Eventhough I am greatly annoted with Haley Joel Osment, he pulled his character on the wrong note. Jude Law, as always, was amazing, as was Frances O'Connor. The rest of the cast is also quite stalwart. I won't mention either special effects or anything, besides John Williams' awesome music, the best stuff he wrote since Jurrasic Park and Schindler's List. Spielberg hits the right key with this one- there is a tender, romantic darkness to the movie, a subtle sadness. The darkness has nothing to do with Kubrick's satrical humor- Spielberg's darkness is a sad one, with no sense of comedy in it. The traditional "Spielberg Sappiness" therefore is present- yet in a quiet form, much like in Close Encounters, unlike in E.T. Yes, Spielberg is most succesful in his paintings of the main protoganist- espacially when he draws them back to their childhood, with simple passions. David is like the Dreyfuss character- they are both on the search. David is very simple to understand (search for love), which is perhaps a reason why people labeled this movie "corny". Yet perhaps, Spielberg asks a greater question beyond what is seen- why do we need love? Of course it also asks ethical questions on what humanity is, what is considered human and such, a question asked by many other movies (Blade Runner, only as one), yet it is David's obsession/passion/need that keeps us to the movie. In his previous "serious" movies, he showed us the horrors of the holocaust, slavery or the war, yet without ever having participated in any of these. Schindlers List hit closest to home from those, yet is it a filmmakers job to create truths? Espacially truths that he never was involved in personally? I personally am against it. Spielberg returns and just does one thing here- the potrayel of an emotion, love for that matter. He does almost go again to the truth thing with the mecha killings/destructions, yet he proceeds more on an emotional level than anything else. And that, that alone is the movie's main strong-point. He does it masterfully, and deserves congratulations. After the contrasting and average Saving Private Ryan and the shallow Amistad, this is like a cold shower that was overdue- ever since Raiders. You could consider this a daring movie for the filmmaker- the ending is not quite what we would expect from him, neither is the entire movie. It isn't a mistake, but a choice- trust me, wouldn't this man, who so well knows how to perfectly begin, continue and end a movie (in terms of pace and storytelling) know if his movie was flawed? Yes, Spielberg has lost fans with this one- the ones that either know him as the kiddie director of E.T and Hook and that of hard, cold (and in my opinion mostly pretentious) truths of Schindlers List and Amistad. Yet, in my opinion, he has returned to his glorious old days with this one, the days when he was young and daring and didn't play it safe all the time. It's the Pinnochio story. Done in a beautiful manner.
Good job Mr.Spielberg. You have my faith once again.
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Summary: ...
Review: It definitely had some potential, but the ending just was awful. There were 3 or 4 times when I seriously thought it was over, but it just kept going, and ending at any of those points would've been better than where it did end at. And it had so much potential.
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Summary: (...)
Review: This was a great movie! The issues being delt with in this movie can be linked with many historic events. Which makes it a pretty intense story line. And I would definatlly not recommend this to anyone under the age of 13! But for anyone older, it's a awesome movie! And afterwards it leaves you thinking... see it!
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Summary: This is either a movie that you hate or love
Review: This film tends to portray the darkness the can be inside humanity's heart. It is a story of Pinnochio trying to prove to society that he has a heart. And when Pinnochio finally finds his father, sadly the father proclaim he is a puppet rather that a live boy and so the search goes on for the boy to find the Blue Fairy. The cinematogray was exquisite, as well as Speilberg treatment of the story. This movie is so moving that at times you identify with the boy and because you can't help him, you cry. The ending was phenomenal, but have recently lost my mother before seeing this film, I would reccommend that if anyone is in that position wait until it comes out on DVD. The ending is very bitter sweet and you will weep.
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Summary: la la la loved it
Review: it made me laugh, it made me cry, it was wonderful.
see its about this robot boy who is set out on an amazing adventure to try to get his human mother to love him after she gits rid of him when her real son comes out of a coma.
he is looking for the blue fairy to make him a real boy. accompanying him on this journey are teddy a super toy and a pleasure bot jiggelo joe. the movie has a twist ending too so i give it 5 stars!
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