Pretty Good

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Possibly one of the five WORST movies ever. This unholy mesalliance of Pinocchio and Blade Runner suffers lazy, dismal scripting that relies solely on emotional manipulation. The production design can be politely described as 'generic', the characters (possibly excepting Jude Law's Slightly Good Samaritan) hewn from styrofoam, and there is a total lack of purpose to the whole enterprise save a gruelling lecture on whether machines can experience 'real' emotions, or hope to be 'real' people. Urgh. Oh yes: the pay-off for Haley Joel Osment's tiresome cyber-brat at the end makes you want to beat your head against the nearest wall. To quote another, better-accredited man-made man, "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..." Well, ya won't believe THIS. Also my first 0/10 review -I'm feeling generous.

Monica and Henry Swinton decide to adopt an 'AI' boy called David as they both fear that their son will never recover from his tragic accident. Although the Swintons initially struggle to adjust to David and his slightly unorthodox ways they gradually start to accept him as their own. However, when their own son Martin makes a recovery a rivalry ensues which forces Monica to abandon David which forces him to pursue his dream of becoming a real boy and being reunited with his 'mother'...The start of the film is intriguing in the sense that you're left wondering how an AI who is as close to being human as possible will interact with a normal family (which is part of Cybertronics master experiment and indeed part of the plot). This sets the tone well and creates some paranoia and intrigue - we're never quite sure how David will react to the family and vice versa. However, it loses itself slightly after a promising start...Once the Swinton's real son Martin is back with the family (he's seemingly cured from whatever happened to him with no real explanation) the film then becomes a pathetic point-scoring exercise between Martin and David - in fact many elements of the first half of the film (particularly between Martin and David) play out like Problem Child on Prozac which hardly makes for a particularly informative, interesting or engaging portion of the film.In the second half, it switches tone slightly in that David is now making it his quest to find the Blue Fairy as he believes that it is the Blue Fairy that can turn him from being a machine into a boy. In the second half we also get introduced to Joe (a camp-as-Christmas Don Juan who is a male gigolo). To be fair, Jude Law's excellent performance and his ridiculous character are the highlights of this film and what a shame it was that it was nearly an hour into the film before he showed up - he was great in every single scene in this film and made sure his screen time was memorable.The final third of the film is quite heart-wrenching and even a cold cynic like me found it quite moving (I won't say anymore than that, but those who have seen the film will know what I mean). It embosses the whole meaning of the film and what it was about and worked for me - although the cynic in me still thinks that Spielberg did manipulate the audience a bit as the script didn't really do enough to really do justice to the final act.Still pound for pound this worked for me and despite being a bit superficial, inconsistent in tone and generally all over the place the film did just about enough to win me over. It's not a great film by any means and certainly not as good as has been touted, but it's worth a look.

I don't know who came up with the idea to make this movie—okay, I do: Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick—but if I could choose one movie that should never have been made, it just might be A.I. Artificial Intelligence. It is one of the saddest films I've ever seen, and when my family went enthusiastically to see it in the theaters upon its release, we all ended up in a gigantic puddle of tears. Please, even if you live off of science fiction films, stay away from this one.Haley Joel Osment, one of the most talented child actors in existence, stars as a robotic child. Set in a futuristic world in which several major cities have been swallowed up by the aftermaths of global warming, robots are now readily available and blend in pretty well with the rest of society. Frances O'Connor and Sam Robards adopt Haley because their human son is on the brink of death. While he falls in love with his family, they don't feel the same way, especially when their real son recovers from his illness and rejoins the family. As a robot, Haley feels real emotions, but sometimes doesn't understand the reason behind them. In one scene, he overhears Sam telling Frances she smells good, so Haley drenches himself in an entire bottle of her perfume in order to gain Sam's love. In another, he's sitting at the table during dinner—which he can't partake of because he's a robot—and he tries to eat so he doesn't feel so isolated from the family. Those are only two of countless heartbreaking scenes in the film.I can't imagine any mother making it through this movie in one piece, and if you were thinking of letting your children watch it, think again. Frances ends up dropping Haley off in the middle of the woods and abandoning him with nothing but his mechanical teddy bear for comfort. Even now, sixteen years later, that scene is vivid in my mind, and I wish as fervently as I did then that I'd never seen this movie.There is only one good element in the movie: Jude Law. He plays a male prostitute robot, and his performance is excellent. Haley Joel Osment is wonderful as well, and it's mind-boggling to see such talent at a young age, but it's also frustrating to watch—his parents allowed him to act in such an upsetting film, and that takes some of the joy out of watching his talent. But back to Jude Law: if you've never seen him before, you might think that he wasn't a real actor. He's so convincing in his movements, expressions, and delivery that it seems like he's a computer-generated character. If the movie wasn't so horrendously disturbing, it might be worth watching for his performance.Kiddy warning: Obviously, you have control over your own children. However, due to extremely upsetting scenes involving children, I wouldn't let my kids watch it.

Please Make me REAL... please make me real....Really the first movie that I've see a REAL one, and with a lots of Emotions..obviously it's from Steven Speilbrg.In firs scenes the movie showed its reality and you won't believe it is made in 1999 and released in 2001 with unbelievable VFX and #d models. Every character has their own emotions attached with this film. and that Taddy was really not for fun but it was a serious matter how A.I. can work..Can you Imagine the things that will have been discovered by coming in 20 years? Today what we know about everything that could be a google assistant or siri or anything they are A.I. experiments ... but a man who imagined that in 1999! Before 17 years and really that was to the point! We are in that progress of that but we have made only assistants and just some of the games with A.I. but this movie has really controlled my mind and it is #Mindshift.We have made now the robots from Hanson Robotics which is now in the news and fully A.I. controlled machine looked real. And that had been imagined 17 years ago ... Really (I'm repeating my feelings) i loved it.Some long climax but really it makes us Emotional in those scenes when David met his mother....And They have just added every feelings in this movie. So I'm gonna watch it over and over again.... Because its a mirror of future.