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Summary: A True Lesson Of Cinema
Review: Last Friday "AI: Artificial Intelligence" was premiered in my country, Spain. The movie, as it happened in the States, has lead to some controversy here, people went out of the theaters yawning and complaining about the end of the movie. As for critics, they worship the movie as the masterpiece of its creator, Spielberg. As far as I am concerned, this is the only movie I've gone to see twice to the theater. That sums up everything, but anyway I will put forward some reasons why I remained bewildered and deeply touched during the course of the film.This is a work you cannot watch and forget, this is a movie to think over a lot of existencial, philosophical and sentimental issues...I will not write about my own thoughts. However, there is an infinite number of details not to lose sight of. For instance, that scene where Monica (Frances O'Connor) prepares some coffee and David (Haley Joel Osment, not a great child actor, but an overwhelming mature actor) observes her amazed showing this way his deep interest in knowing and discovering everything that sorrounds him. But we cannot forget this is a highly crude movie, but disguised. Apparently, it is an enjoyable fairy tale inspired in Carlo Collodi's Pinochio. But this story is harsh, devastating at times (see the scene in which Monica abandons David in the forest, the crudest moment in a film in a very long time) but above all deeply moving. It is at this point where we notice the influence of Kubrick, where the movie gets obscure, almost nightmarish. I felt inside David's mechanical soul from the moment he starts his search for the blue fairy, an unachievable aim, an impossible dream that showed me what sadness really is. The odyssey of David is fascinating, astonishing, Spielberg demonstrates here that he is a real dream maker, that every crazy idea that goes around his head is possible inside his movies. Jude Law makes an excellent and coreographic performance, he is indeed one of the best new actors landed in Holywood. Needless to say that John Williams' score to the movie is his best compendium of musical dreams to date. This movie would not be the masterpiece it is without the hand of this master. All these ingredients as well as the twisted but emotional end, probably the most controversial part of the film due to the wild approach conceived by both Spielberg and Kubrick's minds, makes this movie one of the most unforgettable cinematographical works of all times. Wether you liked the movie or not, I am sure that it will not make you think: "it makes no difference to me". And this is, in fact, the greatest of lessons in the world of cinema.
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Summary: Controversy
Review: No recent film seems to divide the moviegoers such as this one. Is it an interlectual movie? Yes, it is. And the ending is Kubrick, indefinitely. But it is great! Nevertheless there will be thousands who can't find anything in that movie, except for the cute Teddybear.
This movie is one of the most "phantastic" (literally) movies of the last years.
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Summary: Kubrick Spirit mixed with Spilberg's magic
Review: I'm really impresionated with the magic glow that surround all the movie, i saw a perfect mix between the deep of a story from Stanley kubrick with all the illusion and the magic that only Spilberg can delivery. I was greatly impressionated by the movie.
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Summary: So long and empty...almost put me to sleep.
Review: Yikes, what a disappointment! A.I. Artificial Intelligence, one of the most hyped movies of 2001, has finally come out and what did I think of it? Not much really. This movie, frankly, sucked. The movie starts out very well, and I was intrigued. However, as soon as Haley's character David is dumped in the forest by his parents I started to lose respect for the film. From then on the movie just was a feast of over-done visuals, unoriginal plot twists and extremely cheesy lines, even for robots. There were some things I appreciated about the movie. Haley Joel Osment was just stunning. He almost bests his stunner in The Sixth Sense in this lead role as the robot David who just wants to be a real boy (yes, it is as bad as it sounds). Frances O'Connor was also brilliant, and one of the best supporting females in any movie I've seen this year. The visuals are good for the robots, but for Rogue City, they are pretty ridiculous. And I have to mention how much I loved that teddy bear! He kicked some ass and was the coolest, most respectable character in the film. But at the end of the day this is just a mess. The story is really horrible, the characters empty and the whole feel of the movie isn't there like I thought it would be. And I have to mention the Flesh Fair. What utter silliness! I was sitting in my seat disgusted at the thought of Steven Speilberg writing this trash at that point of the film. A.I. Artificial Intelligence will be liked by many audiences but to me it was boring, over-long, repetitive and seemingly endless trash. A big disappointment.
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Summary: "A.I." is a filmmaking triumph
Review: I saw "A.I. Artificial Inteligence" in June when it first came out and I walked out of the theatre thinking that I had just seen a masterpiece of modern day cinema. I also thought it was going to take a lot to beat this film for best of the year in my opinion, and now it is almost the end of September and I have not seen a single film so far this year that has been better. I have seen the film twice and I actually got more out of it the second time I saw it. This is definitely a film you have to see more than once just so you can fully realize the scope of the film and all the ideas that it brings up about our future and our society. I felt so mnany emotions while watching this film that it is hard to list them all. I felt sadened, exhilarated, touched and frustrated all at once. The film is very unsettling to watch and it is a film that can not be easily forgotten. That is what I admired most about"A.I.". It makes you feel real emotions for the characters, especailly David, played to perfection by Haley Joel Osment, and Gigalo Joe, played by Jude Law who really is remarkable and perfectly cast as this character and it isn't afraid to make you feel disturbed because it is supposed to. It is supposed to put an imprint in your mind so you don't forget. I strongly admired Steven Spielberg's direction on this film. He is one of the best, if not the best, directors in the business today and he really made it seem as if Stanley Kuybrick was with him the whole time he shot this because I would say about ninety percent of this film seems like it was done by Stanley himself. The look and feel of the film are very dark for a usual Spielberg film, but it wasn't supposed to be a regular Spielberg film, it was supposed to a Stanley Kubrick/Steven Spielberg film and that is exactly what it turned out to be and it is pure brilliance. I think "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" is, so far, the year's best film and quite possibly one of the best I have ever seen and I would strongly recommend it to anyone who enjoys great filmmaking.
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Summary: Bimillennial Boy
Review: The combined talents of the late cinematic genius Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg, the wizard of emotions, have spawned a movie that presents us with some of the best mainstream sci-fi that Hollywood has to offer. Flawless acting, pioneering special effects and a better-than-ever John Williams score all serve to enhance a plot that, by all means, needs no enhancing. For Kubrick has been chiselling it to perfection since the 1980s with the same obsession that is apparent in the master's other works. But in the light that Kubrick himself has bemoaned that his characters fail to reach out to the viewers and capture their hearts, his bequeathing the project to Spielberg is suddenly not merely an understandable move, but a wholly obvious one. And indeed, the latter taps _A.I._ with a trademark magic wand that deepens its dark, dystopian setting with an additional dimension: paradoxically, in a movie about robots, we are finally subjected to human emotion. _A.I._'s premise raises a question that has been explored often before: what if a robot could truly love? What sets this examination of the subject apart from preceding ones is that it does so from the point of view of the robot itself. While human characters drift in and out of his life, the film's real protagonist is and remains the childlike mechanoid David. Throughout, one is awarded with a disclosing view into a psyche that, to make the movie's point, seems unintelligible from that of a regular child. David is prone to the same maternal attachment, but also to the same tantrums, desperate acts, and bouts of panic and hysteria as is any other boy his "age". As is said by one of the characters in _Bicentennial Man_, it is our imperfections that render us unique. Much like that movie, _A.I._ reminds us that being human necessitates being flawed. However, while _Bicentennial Man_ interprets these flaws as superficial (on his journey towards achieving human form, Andrew ends up toting the hook-nosed face of Robin Williams, but his character remains saintful), _A.I._ goes a step further by depicting David as intrinsically good, yet occasionally bearing the tendency to fall victim to the same moments of selfishness and anger as do all of us. On the film's surface, its Spielbergian sugar-coatedness is not always compatible with Kubrick's harsher worldview, and at times, it appears that _A.I._ has difficulty deciding at what age audience it is aimed. The horrific and by now infamous Flesh Fair scenes seem to be taken from a completely different movie than, for instance, the final act, made all the schmaltzier by the entrance of Teddy just before the fade to black. Yet it would be misguided to assume that this atmospherical inconsistency is merely due to sloppiness (or disrespect for Kubrick's vision) on Spielberg's part. Rather, a more careful examination of the pseudo-happy ending will reveal it as in fact a carefully-contrived hoax, no more real than David himself. It was when I realized this, upon my second viewing, that _A.I._'s actual depth suddenly became revealed to me. It is a shame that such a formulaic approach has been taken with the film's script, since this has buried its serious subject matter as irretrievably as David's amphibicopter beneath the teratons of frozen ocean.
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Summary: Poor
Review: I have recently seen AI in the UK and I think that it is pretty poor, given the cost to produce and the cast. The film drags on and on after a promising start. The middle of the film is dull and the end just does not follow the rest of the film. I did wonder whether I'd fallen asleep during the film. Having said that, I wish I had. AI is a subject that I have studied since graduation and therefore I was interested in what Speilberg though of it in the future. Irregardless of the possibility or not of the technology, the film failed to deliver. Haley's acting as usual was, however, a pleasure to watch.
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Summary: An Epic Masterpiece
Review: Spielburg does not flinch when telling Kubrick's tale of a robot that wants to become human. It tests the notion that human love transcends all boundaries and all conditions. A person watching this movie is being subtly tested: how far reaching and encompassing is your love? Do you love yourself? Do you love your children? Your neighbor? Fellow countryman? Pets? Any human? Are you capable of loving anything, given time and circumstance? And are human love and compassion and mercy truly the only things that set us apart from the other animals in the animal kingdom? If it is, then doesn't the extent of that love measure the degree to which we are truly human? And in the end, is love sufficient unto itself? Is it a sufficient accomplishment of a lifetime to love and be loved? How you feel about the movie will say more about yourself than about the movie itself.
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Summary: i loved it
Review: i thought AI was a truly great film. After reading/hearing awful reviews I was skeptical to say the least.
However, the only complaints that I actually heard from people were that the film was "boring" and "too long". Kind of sh**ty complaints, eh? The movie is totally captivating. Haley Joel Osment and Jude Law act amazingly, especially Haley. He manages to show off his brilliant acting skills throughout the duration of the movie- he is a robot who cannot comprehend why his "mother" doesn't love him... he cannot cry, he cannot stop loving. The ending of the movie is bizarre, but it's also really good too.
How people can say this is a family film I don't know... it's too heavy going for children (and apparently most stupid popcorn guzzling gun-toting Americans too) Give the film a chance. If you don't like it, then fine. If you DO, then you will feel the same as I do. Don't just pass this one by.
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Summary: One too many producer
Review: Is it a Kubrick movie? Is it a Spielberg movie? Both my 14 year old son and I were looking forward to going. My 14 year old fell asleep halfway through as the plot and dialogue was so bad that he could not even stay interested in the special effects. I was bored throughout. Do something more productive with your time than watch this movie!
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