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My Review: A. I.
Jul. 15th, 2001 07:11 amSo we (my mom, Josh and I) went to see A.I. last night. My mom really wanted to see it and I agree I wanted to see it too as it is WAS directed by Steven Speilberg.
I found this movie to be a big disappointment. The plot was TERRIBLE! In it, the ice caps have melted, burying the coast line cities under water. The people left are lacking in resources so built machines, mecca, to do things. For reasons I still don't understand, they create a little boy machine who loves. They give him to the family of one of the employees. The story follows his trials and tribulations trying to find love from a family that knows he is a mere robot. The point of the movie, I guess, was "If you force something to love you, what moral obligations do you have to it". I don't feel the point was made strongly. Instead, the movie spent ALOT of time being in some sort of Pinnochio/Find the Blue Fairy and make me a real boy sort of deal. The ending was very weak and though it probably SHOULD have brought tears to my eyes (it brought tears to my mom's) It was overly long, in my opinion, and SHOULD have been cut out.
I still don't understand the purpose of some of the scenes that were in the movie...
My only guess for why this movie was so bad was that, perhaps in the future, Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielburg should NEVER work together again as they brought together something so much less than both of their usual stuff.
In conclusion, despite the fact that many people out there loved this film.. I have to give it 2 stars out of 5. It made some interesting points, hade a few good moment but was otherwise too pretentious and UNHuman (Millenial Man was alot better in this regard - It was a HUMAN story about a robot who wanted to be a man. This was not) to make me care.
Feel free to post your rants and raves and such about my review.
I found this movie to be a big disappointment. The plot was TERRIBLE! In it, the ice caps have melted, burying the coast line cities under water. The people left are lacking in resources so built machines, mecca, to do things. For reasons I still don't understand, they create a little boy machine who loves. They give him to the family of one of the employees. The story follows his trials and tribulations trying to find love from a family that knows he is a mere robot. The point of the movie, I guess, was "If you force something to love you, what moral obligations do you have to it". I don't feel the point was made strongly. Instead, the movie spent ALOT of time being in some sort of Pinnochio/Find the Blue Fairy and make me a real boy sort of deal. The ending was very weak and though it probably SHOULD have brought tears to my eyes (it brought tears to my mom's) It was overly long, in my opinion, and SHOULD have been cut out.
I still don't understand the purpose of some of the scenes that were in the movie...
My only guess for why this movie was so bad was that, perhaps in the future, Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielburg should NEVER work together again as they brought together something so much less than both of their usual stuff.
In conclusion, despite the fact that many people out there loved this film.. I have to give it 2 stars out of 5. It made some interesting points, hade a few good moment but was otherwise too pretentious and UNHuman (Millenial Man was alot better in this regard - It was a HUMAN story about a robot who wanted to be a man. This was not) to make me care.
Feel free to post your rants and raves and such about my review.
