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Summary: WONDERFUL
Review: THIS IS BY FAR THE BEST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN AND I'VE SEEN ALMOST EVERY MOVIE
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Summary: A Speilberg Movie
Review: If you haven't seen this movie I can't recommend it enough, that being said you may not like it, at least at first. But it will stick with you and sometimes even haunt you. I only saw it once and could tell you what happened scene by scene now six months later. It should also be noted for those of you that worship the late mister Kubrick, that this is a Speilberg film. There is no denying that. He gave it to Steven for a reason. There is a depth of emotion and a knowledge of innocence in this movie that Kubrick could have never captured. So, some of you really have to get of your "Kubrick would have done this better" high horse (you know who you are). I'll leave it at that, no need to preach. Just see this movie and let it fester in your mind for a while. You'll get something out of it I promise.
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Summary: A dark film... that feels like..home.
Review: This film is a Masterpiece. I have been a Kubrick fan since I first saw the Old Dave Bowman point to the Monolith and then turn into the StarChild. I get goose bumps when I watch A Clockwork Orange, and I shuttered when I saw Eyes Wide Shut, but not in a good way. So it was with mixed emotions I entered the theater to see this film. The room darkened and the movie started. I sat enthralled for 2 and a half hours. Here was a Vision I didn't think possible, and a film that restored my faith in Kubrick, and gave me new respect for Spielburg ((hey I liked Hook sue me)) The casting in this film is right on, and you identify with David ((Haley Joel Osmant)) from the first frame he enters the screen.
I have to say the defining moment of the Movie is the last half hour-45 minutes. It is such a shift that people started to get up to leave, and even I thought the film was over. But then the real message of the film comes across. ((Sorry to say guys the creatured at the end of the film are machines. David's Great great great... grandchildren... figuratively speaking))
This film gave me goose bumps. It restored my faith in two great film makers, that had made some, ((in my opinion)) clinkers. Open your mind, and be ready for the possibility. This is a true Science Fiction film. It asks questions and leaves some of them for you to answer. It was wonderful, it was horrific, it was full of messy human emotions trying to be understood by a boy who didn't have any of his own. Everyone should see this film, if nothing else then to appriciate all the feelings we can feel.
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Summary: A potentially serious film trivalised
Review: Haley Joel Osment stars as the robotic replacement for the terminally ill and comatose son of a privileged American family in a not-so-distant future. The artificial boy is infinitely cuter yet so docile and obedient that he allows his "owner" to dress and undress him. Always loving he seems in every way the perfect child until the recovery of the son not only makes him redundant, but sparks off a rivalry which plays on the fears and anxieties of the "real" boy's parents. The robot child is abandoned and from here on the tight, sensitive claustrophobia of the film gives way to the epic scope and sentimentality of an "E.T." or a "Jurassic Park" -- Kubrick in other words metamorphosises into Spielberg. From a beginning which suggests a cutting edge exploration into technology and exploitation, into the corruptibility of love itself (unlike the robot boy's love, "human" love is too evidently perishable, too evidently morally suspect and morally suspicious), the film becomes another high-action spectacle drumming up the already much-trodden and oh-so-familiar spectacle of a "beautiful" protagonist triumphal not only over his "ugly" society, but over the logic of Space and Time itself: robot boy gets reunited with human mum a thousand years into the future by aliens. On the way of course, we get all the obvious moralising of a Spielberg direction complete with a "Flesh Fair" where these unwanted robots are systematically rounded up to be exterminated. From the disturbing vision of the death of individuality, where perfect little boys and little girls may be mass produced, we get essentially a story from the eyes of a Pinnochio searching for a means to become a real boy. The ending -- which I will not describe -- is so ludicruously illogical, so inflated with a hogwash of sentimentality that I felt terribly cheated. An apparently "Full Metal Jacket" has been turned into something which would do Walt Disney proud.
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Summary: My favorite movie of all time
Review: If you're a fan of Haley then you'll love this movie.
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Summary: AMAZING HEARTBREAK STORY
Review: i recomend to see this movie to everyone.just open your heart.that's all! try to understand the message! its not some kind of stupid action movie.its a story about little robot-boy who's trying to understand human's nature,human's mind.its shows bad & good size of it.i'm very sentimental person,so its makes me cry while watching this movie.if you want to see something more emotional & intelligent.this one is must.one of the best movies i ever saw!
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Summary: If You Let It, A.I. will KNOCK YOU OUT
Review: I agree that this is one of Spielberg and Kubrick's more original and thought provoking films. Both directors are genius when it comes to etching memorable one-of-a-kind characters who represent the audience's psyches at one and the same time. The robotic boy here is chillingly played by Osment, who is brilliant in a role far more complex and varied than his Oscar nominated turn in "The Sixth Sense." In Haley Joel, the director finds his muse, and allows the film's bizarre triangle narrative take its course. We see the film in part through the child's eye, one of Speilberg's specialities, and like "Empire of the Sun" (one of the director's true masterpieces) we are enveloped in his cravings. Osment makes the character even more human than his truly human counterpart, and his scenes with his mother are gripping. They can haunt even the hardest soul among us but only because Osment is at the top of his game here. Any other young actor might have given into the temptation to camp this part up, but like Christian Bale in "Empire" Osment uses his eerie man-child gaze and facial affectations to convey all the tenderness and unmitigated desire that makes a child's energy so special. There are harrowing moments in AI where I had to look away (most likely Kubrick's main plot) but these too add to the plot and move the story along. Perhaps even more chilling than Osment's singular standout performance is the film's final vision, of an underwater New York City, post-September 11th, but also intact, swallowed by an ocean. The whole film is a testament to the power of the medium - it rises up and grabs us, forces us to contemplate real recurring themes (here - lost innocence, freedom, and the obvious mother-son dynamic) and never lets go. To be sure, at times, the movie plods and pokes along - a minstrel show of horrors that are painful to witness but essential to the vision. Give AI a rent at least and let yourself go with it....it will NOT relax you, but instead transport you somewhere far far away. See it for Osment, who deserves Oscar notice, but is unlikely to get it (a shame, for he's stunning here!)
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Summary: Perplexing
Review: I don't really know what to make of this film. It looked fantastic, it kept me interested, but it was also very strange. There was indeed a certain feeling of "the ghost of Kubrick" co-directing, it reminded me of 2001 in a few respects, but at the same time it had the emotional feel of a Spielberg film steering most of the way....George Lucas might want to pay attention for the upcoming Star Wars episodes.
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Summary: The Most Entertaining Film of 2001
Review: For all of you whiners who worship films that have a plot the size of a Wyoming suburb, QUIT COMPLAINING! This Steven Speilberg film is for the light-hearted and/or intellectual ONLY! It surprises me people were so dissapointed in this movie. Whats to not like in this film? You have a talking teddy bear, a robot gigolo, a great look at New York a million years from now, a sick bratty kid, and his mean mommy. Where now, we look at a movie like Pearl Harbor, where all of the characters are not exotic or complex. Lets face it, most of the good films that came out last year were mostly adaptations of novels. Not this one, however. I mean sure, it was a vision of Stanley Kubricks, but the idea is completly original. I can not wait till it comes out on DVD. So my advice to you haters out there, is start scraping the dust off of your Book of Urantia and get educated, and most importantly watch this film!
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Summary: Emotional Journey
Review: This was one of the most memorable movies I have seen in a long time. I had never been a particularly big Kubrick fan, but I felt that this was an excellent production. And I think Spielberg added just the right amount of "warm fuzziness" to the film to make it not entirely disheartening. ...The ending was beautiful...And though it ended on a more positive note than the rest of the film, it was sad in a big way as well. To me, it is very reflective of how many things in life are...bittersweet. I would highly recommend this movie to anyone, but you need to understand that this does not fit a typical storyline (Main character is introduced, main character has conflict, main character deals with conflict, story winds down to conclusion). It has all the same aspects, but it is not a ladder-like structure. The elements are rather mixed in altogether, and don't necessarily come out in order.
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