Artificial Intelligence: AI 2001   PG-13, 145 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
aka: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards, Jake Thomas, Brendan Gleeson, William Hurt, Jack Angel, Ben Kingsley, Keith Campbell, April Grace, Ken Leung, Clark Gregg, Kevin Sussman
After Stanley Kubrick's death, Steven Spielberg inherited this story about a mid-21st century android, David (Haley Joel Osment), who has been programmed to love. Eleven-year-old David comes to the Swinton home as a replacement for the family's son, Martin (Jake Thomas), who is ill. But when Martin returns to his family, the Swinton's abandon David. He is set adrift in the world–dreaming of becoming a real boy and being loved by the Swintons. 1 User Review
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| | Ultimately, this film fails, but it is worth watching. | 1fatts 03/14/2007 | The story about the almost-collaboration of Spielberg and Kubrick is well known by now; and you can't help but see the seams throughout the film: the ethereal quality of Kubrick does not quite fit the moral fables of Spielberg. The movie is too long, too episodic, and, finally, too pat.
But there are ideas and images running through this film that should not be easily dismissed or discounted. Haley Joel Osment really is so good it hurts, but, more importantly, there is an attempt here at scope, at vision which is worth our attention even if it doesn't quite work. Spielberg tries to explain too much; Kubrick would have let it remain unresolved imaage. But you can forgive ambition a lot more easily than insufficiency.
I'm sorry it's not a better film. I'm glad someone serious tried. |
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