A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Pros: Acting, Visuals, thought-provoking, expansive plot
Cons: Treads a fine line between Mind-Blowing and Confusing

I've wanted to see this movie since I saw the first commercial for it. In fact, I think the first time I saw that commercial, tears welled up in my deep blue eyes. I'm that much of a baby.

It may be that when I was about 12-14 years old, I...

Pros: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Stephen Spielberg
Cons: William Hurt, John Williams, Chris Rock, Stanley Kubrick

Like Stanley Kubrick's last (or, depending on how you count, previous) film, "Eyes Wide Shut," there were great expectations for "A.I.," a film Kubrick had been thinking about for 20 years and allegedly had storyboarded. He is also supposed to have tried...

Pros: An emotionally moving, visually stunning and thought provoking film.
Cons: Absolutely none.

To me, a truly moving and captivating story, or in this case, movie, is one that makes you forget that you're even watching a movie. That is, you don't think about who made the film, nor do you think about the actors who play the characters. You just ...

Pros: The best cure for insomnia on the market
Cons: The best cure for insomnia on the market

Looking at the trailers for this film, my worst fear was that it would be like “Bladerunner for kids”. Silly me. Even though that fear was realised, I should have realised that there was a far worse fear: That of falling asleep in the cinema ...

Pros: makes you think, Teddy the supertoy is cool!
Cons: dark, gloomy, sad, overly long

If you want to see a dark film starring a little kid, then by all means, rush out to AI. If you're a fan of science fiction and want to see a film which feels a lot like a two and a half hour episode of "The Outer Limits", then run, don't...

Pros: Osment typecast, Jude Law: superstar
Cons: Spielberg is badly outmatched by this material

William Butler Yeats wrote a poem once about a human child stolen away by faeries into a Sylvan Wye. It was for an 1889 collection of poetry called Crossways, and it’s called “The Stolen Child,” here’s the chorus:

Come away, O human...

Pros: The product of two great directors and some wonderful acting is worth seeing
Cons: A little show in places

Wull, I'm back agin. I wanna tell ya, I wuz sum kinda mad when I figgered out wot this moovie wuz about. Ya see, Mike.Holmes and me have a 13 year old nefyoo that's ben askin'all kinds a querstions about sex. His name is Elmo and he's almost as...

Pros: Jude Law. Teddy. Osment. The Wizard behind the curtain.
Cons: You can't get behind the curtain.

The basic problem is that Steven Spielberg simply is not very cerebral. You hate to say things like that, but there it is. He's quite good at what he does, which is mostly to make movies with lots of flash and glitter, and lots of syrupy emotion. This...

Pros: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, fine storytelling
Cons: Did not end quickly enough

If Stanley Kubrick had lived to make "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence," he certainly would taken it in a different direction than the man who completed the film, Steven Spielberg. Spielberg acknowledges the weaknesses of the human condition, but creates a...

Pros: First act; Haley Joel Osment's brilliant performance; production design; Jude Law; some spectacular stuff
Cons: May be too sentimental, certainly too unbelievable; Silas Marner, is that you?

It's been three years since Saving Private Ryan, which was Steven Spielberg's last film, and the one that netted him his second Best Director Academy Award. His latest is called A.I. Artificial Intelligence, and it is, amazingly enough, the...

Pros: Intelligent? Yes.
Cons: Artificial? Unfortunately so.

Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence might just be the best value for your dollar at this summer’s cineplex. For the price of one admission, you get three movies, each of them odd and perplexing and downright beautiful. A.I. is...

Pros: Osment, Law and O'Connor. (Plus it's a movie that will make you THINK.)
Cons: The third act suffers from schizophrenia and narcolepsy.

So here's A.I. The dust has settled and this mega-anticipated mixture of Spielbergian heart and Kubrickian style has now been unleashed on the public. Spielberg fanatics may balk at some of the sad and bleak visions, while Kubrick purists may...

Pros: Haley's haunting performance, intriguing concept
Cons: deeply disconcerting

From the moment I heard of A.I., I wanted to see it. Science fiction – about a robot, no less. I used to spend hours dreaming of building my own robot, and I even tried to start the project a few times before realizing that this was something...

Pros: Jude Law and Haley Joel Osment are great together
Cons: Some parts are really silly

A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) is the film Stanley Kubrick would have made if he had not died immediately after finishing Eyes Wide Shut. He had collaborated with Spielberg before making the movie, and Spielberg more or less took over and completed the...

Pros: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Good story and characters
Cons: The last half-hour

Although I enjoyed Artificial Intelligence, it wasn’t quite what I was expecting. It was somewhat darker than the commercials led me to believe, and the overall story was somewhat different from that image as well.

Let me set the movie...