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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Widescreen Special Edition)Rating:
Release Date: 01 June, 2003 Retail Price: $12.99 OUR Price: $9.99 You SAVE: $3.00! Cast: Complete Cast (12 total) |
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Didn't trust its own intelligence
It is possible to pinpoint the precise moment that AI loses its mind. Like its main character--a robot boy abandoned in the woods--this film with great promise is left to wander aimlessly.
AI starts off as a compelling tale of a grief-stricken family whose young son is in an apparently irreversible coma. While medical science seems incapable of helping him, robotic science comes to the rescue. Hoping to pull his wife Monica out of her grief, husband Henry brings home one of his company's creations - a "mecha" or robotic boy (the ever-wonderful Haley Joel Osment) built to love its owner. But a robot is not a boy, and soon things get out of control as the mecha expresses emotions like clinginess and jealousy.
This whole first hour of the movie is gripping and real. It's less of a question of "Can a robot express love" than of "Can human beings love a machine, knowing that it is just a machine?" The dramatic possibilities were endless. How *real* do the parents want their new son to be? Will they love him? Treat him as a pet? Include him in family pictures? Or just stand him in the corner when it's convenient?
But let us recall that there is another semi-human influence at work: Steven Spielberg.
As soon as the movie gets almost unbearably interesting, it pops its clutch. Suddenly parallels to the Pinocchio story abound and the film becomes a monstrosity in its own right. There are sex-mechas and helicopter chases and a garish amusement park and frozen oceans and advanced robots from the future--an entire top drawer of colorful, useless junk and half-witted ideas strewn across the screen. The entire premise of human-robot interaction is completely dropped in favor of high-tech lachrymosity. It's as if someone spliced an hour of a magnificent Merchant-Ivory drama with the back end of Mad Max movie and overlaid all with a maudlin soundtrack.
If you love visuals, this movie has them in spades. Robot faces split apart and come together; mechas attracted to a pile of junk replace their own worn parts; a "super-toy" bear walks around quite realistically; coastal cities are inundated or buried in ice. But if you're looking for a film that takes ideas seriously, you've come to the wrong place.
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This film was a disappointment to me!
A I. Artificial Intelligence is the story of a robot boy named David who loves his human mother so much that he wants to be turned into a human boy like Pinocchio. Both Haley Joel Osment (David) and Jude Law (Gigolo Joe) gave excellent performances. It's not their fault that the story was not worth the work that they put into their roles. The other character that I should mention was "Teddy" a robot bear who seemed smarter and more compassionate than the humans in the story. I thought that the so called "humans" were a miserable group who had lost their humanity.
This movie was like a bad nightmare and I can hardly believe that Spielberg made this film.
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