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| A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) |
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  (4/10)
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Runtime: 146 |
| Public Rating: 8.04 (50 votes) |
Director: Steven Spielberg |
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| Genre: Sci-Fi |
Year: 2001 |
| Writer(s): Steven Spielberg |
| Distributor: 1 |
| Reviewed by: Tonya Goodnow |
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A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) is a dark sci-fi fairy tale revolving around a new generation of android... one that can actually love. The set-up involves a husband and wife who, having lost their own son, become test parents for the prototype, a young boy named David (Haley Joel Osment). Everything goes along fine until an unexpected turn of events forces David's "parents" to make a hard choice, from which a question emerges: can humans really love an artificial person?
There's a lot of great stuff in this film, both visually (very Blade Runner-esque) and with the story (not original, but interesting enough). Steven Spielberg, however, manages to ruin it all by the end of this meandering, contrived, repetitive and ultimately boring 2 1/2 hour fiasco. Through the first hour, A.I. seems headed for modest greatness. But it goes downhill from there and just keeps digging. The entire character base changes, thin sub-plots emerge and loose ends get left all over the place. And probably my biggest complaint: almost every scene is way too long. The pace of the film is just unbelievably slow. About 2/3 of the way through this movie, almost everyone in the theater (including myself) was shifting and fidgeting, which is a pretty good indication you've lost your audience. To top it off, A.I. never even answers it's own question, nor does it leave it open-ended enough for the audience to ponder.
What this movie needs is some major re-editing. If cut right, it could actually be good. I mean there's certainly potential there--good acting, many great individual scenes and lots of emotional set-up. As is, though, it's a runaway train that takes too freakin' long to wreck... And once the aliens show up (oh yes, there are aliens!), you know they're grasping for how the heck to end this thing. It might as well have been raining frogs (anyone see Magnolia?)
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