A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

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A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.

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Directed By: Steven Spielberg

Written By: Steven Spielberg, Brian Aldiss, Ian Watson

Starring: Ben Kingsley, Robin Williams, Meryl Streep, Chris Rock, William Hurt, Brendan Gleeson, Jude Law, Haley Joel Osment, Sam Robards, Frances O'Connor, Kathryn Morris, Ashley Scott

Genres: Drama, Sci-fi, Fantasy, Adventure

Country: UK, USA

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Stars	User	Rating
10	djross	60 _62nd
Re-watched June 2018: a picaresque that journeys through childhood, the world of adult sexuality and violence, and death, with varying amounts of thoughtfulness, but what makes this seem a little better than I remember it is the understanding that the question of "real AI" is not whether it can have "feelings", but whether it is capable of dreaming new dreams of what has never existed. Some of the narrative mechanics are a little clunky, but it also develops some poetic and affective power.
8	BeeDub	88 _75th
A flawed yet consistently engaging minor masterpiece from Spielberg and Kubrick. Its blending of classic literary sci-fi themes with fantastic visuals and exceptional performances creates a beautifully haunting experience. The much-debated final sequence is far darker and more profound than most people realize.
6	Filligan	85 _60th
The best thing about Spielberg is he'll always make you forget you're watching a movie; he'll always engross you with storytelling and filmmaking that looks so effortless. But what probably keeps A.I.'s head consistently above water is Haley Joel Osment's performance. It's the best of his I've ever seen, he just embodies David so remarkably. The film has its flaws to be sure, and maybe the last half hour stretches the suspension of disbelief even in the sci-fi setting, but I wouldn't change it.
6	pilgermann	90 _94th
An underrated film. I think it'll be appreciated more as time passes.
6	Alex Watkins	5 _91st
One of the most unjustly chastised films in Spielberg's ouevre. "Sentimental" ending aside (a charge both highly contentious and equally reductive), this is a magnificent fairy tale, wedding influences such as Pinocchio and The Wizard of Oz to the philosophical and humanist inquiries of Solaris and Blade Runner. It boldly wears its emotions on its sleeve, but the tone always suits the material. The final sequence runs a bit too long, but the rest is wonderful. Spielberg's best.
6	Stain	100 _95th
Beautiful. I bawled like a little boy when I saw it. I just about died of embarrassment, for I saw it on the big screen and was wearing my _Evil Dead_ T-shirt at the time
6	Spunkie	65 _76th
Though flawed, attempts to ask one of the true questions of scifi as literature. Child as the protagonist in a movie is not a new idea, but still explored. When that child is a simulacra himself, we are on the new ground. Spielberg just had the guts to make some suggestions, never with a full sentence and in the foggy realm of fairy tales. Multiple endings arise from the sentencelessness dillema. It would have well been over 40 minutes earlier.
6	antitype	81 _75th
My score for this one might have been somewhat inflated by Jonathan Rosenbaum's insightful review, which brought me to think of this film as a flawed yet poetically resounding work; a particularly oedipal Pinocchio-meets-2001: A Space Odyssey. Still, how sad that Kubrick didn't live (until 2001, perhaps, which would have been something...) to direct this himself, maybe with Spielberg on board as a sentimental navigator. Something about it just feels like it failed to meet its full potential.
5	fuxoft	55 _30th
This film really has no idea what it's supposed to be and where it wants to go.
5	Pickpocket	1 _12th
This movie refuses to end. The narration is corny and Jude Law is uncomfortably bad to watch. Spielberg's commitment to the Pinnochio thing becomes jarring I wish he would've abandoned it cause it does not work at all. You are a robot dumbass, you can't be real...isn't he supposed to be intelligent? If I hear Haley Joel Osment say mommy ever again I'm going to kill myself.
5	JLFM	100 _99th
Maybe the best directed film of Spielberg's career - which is not something I say lightly! An astonishingly ambitious work that plunges headfirst into the darkest depths of existentialism, whilst co-starring an anthropomorphic teddy bear and a love-bot played by Jude Law.
4	sushiwriter	96 _95th
This movie holds special interest to me as it explores many philosophical concepts of intelligence, what it takes to be human, and what it means to be 'alive.' It's one of the most underrated movies ever.
4	hellsditch	62 _7th
End. End. Just end. Fucking End already! Movie. Stop NOW. Yeah yeah yeah, Pinnocchio references, I get it already. Please just be over.
4	recklessmess	71 _51st
I've never seen such devotion in a droid before. Well, once. But that was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.
4	Corleone	90 _97th
Grossly underrated. As years go by and AI advances this movie may get even more relevant but it's not all technology. It's also an unorthodox view of the childhood itself - the clash between the call for adventure and the need for security shown through the eyes of a child of the technological age. You can clearly distinguish Kubrick's and Spielberg's parts but I would argue this separation is more of an enhancement to the overall experience than an obstacle.
4	lex	95 _91st
Kubrick in its pacing and awe, Spielberg in its intimate emotional punch and lighthearted fantasy. The combination create a singular motion picture experience: it goes beyond what any other movie has, into the personally profound where, if you view it properly, it will both disturb and touch you; amaze, crawl under your skin and make you think. A shockingly relevant and criminally underrated masterpiece.
4	Nepeta	85 _80th
My favourite Spielberg. I find the ideas it explores fascinating (and very relevant) and the manner in which it explores them to be both highly compelling and incredibly affecting. It's a film that is not without flaws but personally I find so much rewarding about the film that the flaws can't really stop me from respecting and loving it. I adore the ending which is deceptively sentimental and remarkably dark, leaving David in the same situation Monica was in at the beginning.
3	MartinTeller	74 _50th
Starts out pretty good: David is an unsettling presence and the dynamics of how he relates to his "family" is intriguing. Things go wrong in the second act, which is mostly adventure story and CGI jizz-fest. The third act seems promising, but it ends too quickly and takes us to the most contentious section: the epilogue. Spielberg milks it for sentimentality, reducing it to a simple theme. In the end, it's a movie that raises a few interesting ideas but squanders a lot of its potential.
3	Christophilm	100 _96th
Best Steven Spielberg film.
3	krmr	84 _64th
Probably the easiest to watch 2 and a half hour long movie there is. Jude Law steals the show in my eyes, he owns that character. Also, Teddy has to be one of the best characters in any movie, I want my TV series based around him.
3	Egregius	82 _47th
A good Kubrick movie ruined by Spielberg who had to tack on a false ending. Take my advice, and stop the movie when the kids is staring at the sign under water, and pretend the rest afterwards doesn't exist.
3	empiremag	5 _93rd
"This is not about the shadow of Stanley Kubrick but the bright, burning light of Spielberg's filmmaking genius. Difficult and challenging, it is also profound, extraordinary and visually astounding. Tally it up and you've got a very unusual masterpiece."
3	jward	10 _1st
Possibly the worst piece of science fiction I have ever seen. A mild form of torture.
3	jeff_v	90 _98th
More Kubrickian than most gave it credit for. The ending, which I initially misread, is actually perfect, and challenges our conception of humanity.
3	EbelC	70 _72nd
Repeat with me: this movie is only 116min long. Keep saying it, so hard, you just push the stop button in that moment when watching it. Don't ask. Trust me.
3	goremeat	70 _58th
Confused, the film like a little robot boy stumbles around in awe of the ideas it wants to chase and explore, yet never quite able to grasp any of them. Whispers of Bladerunner, of maternal horror, of world-building in a post-human world. In the end AI seems mostly unsure of its mission but a spectacle with enough going for it to warrant a watch.
3	Paxton	17 _1st
A lot of times people will say, oh, you didn't get it. Correct. I did not get it. What I did get, is that it ends twice, and the half hour before the second ending is pretty useless. Spoiler alert: he's a robot.
2	syzygy	23 _15th
Incredibly boring, and also the worst ending to a movie ever.
2	Magb	70 _39th
There was much potential here, but Spielberg couldn't quite bring it all out. Would Kubrick have been able to do so? Yes, I think he would.
2	zolo	97 _96th
Very nice
2	jpdoumeyrou	50 _21st
Disappointed: good idea, some fantastic moments, but boring and verbose...
2	CatScandal	66 _56th
I don't think Spielberg was up to the potential of this story. It's interesting, but would have been better in the hands of a director with a vision as dark as that of the writer's. The third act is just dreadful.
2	Tobia	60 _40th
Pity it couldn't have been entirely Kubrick's.
2	Kojiless	34 _35th
This movie would have been better if they had rewritten all of Osmet's lines to "I can see dead people."
2	hojo	80 _55th
This movie would've gotten like a 95 if Steven Spielberg didn't shit it up 3/4 the way through. Fucking hack.
2	Nathan S	2 _21st
There are a bevy of interesting ideas and visuals here, but the execution leaves something to be desired. It's nauseatingly sentimental, with a lot of cheesy dialogue delivered in sappy whispers. There's also something awkward in its pacing, which feels too stilted to support such an epic scope.
2	martryn	72 _57th
The creepy and awesome teddy bear was the high point in this movie. It's like no one knew how to end it, so they just made shit up.
2	frederic_g54	6 _35th
(2nd viewing) Resolves itself nicely after an incredible contrived and increasingly tedious first half and the Kubrick inspired aesthetics are often breathtaking. A mixed bag.
2	Biedronski	68 _41st
A cool visually appealling movie about the future. The robot rally thing was an awesome way to portray rednecks in the future. The teddy bear was absolutely horrifying. Jude Law was absolutely perfect. But the whole story has just been done before, and I kind of thought the ending was just stupid.
2	Vandelay1	74 _84th
good movie
2	somnivore	80 _37th
Overblown, much too long.
2	Ocelot	75 _81st
Perhaps I'm in the minority here, but I really liked the last twenty minutes. Such an abstract turn isn't too far-fetched for me in a film that's ultimately about humanity itself. The biggest issue is that each act of the film feels like its own distinct movie, with the Flesh Fair sequence being ultimately blunt and stupid. A film about Gigolo Joe could be fascinating, but here his inclusion seems to stem from Kubrick's liner notes. There is a masterpiece within this concept, but not here.
2	omgfridge	8 _80th
Has aged well. I can see it getting more recognition in later years. Main issue is scenes tend to drag longer than they should. Heart wrenching tale.
2	ABUNCHOFCATS	53 _12th
This had all the makings of either a great movie, or just a good movie for the year, but everything completely falls apart and nothing comes together.
2	spleen	79 _65th
In a weird, not-so-past future, George Orwell (played by Stanley Kubrick) and Pinocchio (Steven Spielberg) parent a child named Haley. Morality and theology aside, at least the future has robot hookers.
2	fibonacci	90 _82nd
I think I was the only person that enjoyed this.
2	mrandersen10	70 _42nd
Wasted potential.
2	Pman	0 _1st
Snnnooooooze....A.I., AGONIZINGLY INANE!
2	GrindhouseX3	2 _9th
So many special-effects, so little fun. Skip it.
2	Rufam	70 _57th
Steven Spielberg's futuristic film is an improvement on "Minority Report" and also entertaining, clever, touching and well-acted, featuring some great performances by Haley Joel Osment as well as Jude Law.
2	Matthew Parkinson (CineMarter)	60 _62nd
A.I. starts off well, and continues to be a very good film for most of its runtime. It has a perfect moment when it should have ended, but didn't, instead continuing when it shouldn't, taking a direction that it likely should have forgotten about. The lead actor didn't make me believe, but the side actors made up for that. The visuals are great, and the world created is awe-inspiring. It just doesn't hold together when you look at the way it ends.
2	hellboy76	68 _65th
While it is a tad overlong and the ending(s) turn some people off, I for one have no issues with Spielberg's modern day Pinnochio take. Also, who better to pull it off than the mainstream master of childhood wonder?
2	stevekimes	90 _88th
Although it has a confusing mix of tones, still this film is brilliant and thoughtful. I loved it. What does one do when the purpose of his life rejects him?
2	NothingsGood	0 _1st
This is the worst movie ever made. I'm still waiting for it to end.
2	mattorama12	63 _43rd
More ambitious than successful. It reaches to be a sci-fi masterpiece and the definitive film on defining humanity. While it doesn't succeed, it's still one of the better explorations of the blurred line separating humans and machines. Also, let's all just agree that the film ended in the ocean and ignore the rest.
2	brandons	65 _44th
A curious, not always seamless, amalgamation of Kubrick's chilly bleakness and Spielberg's warm-hearted optimism, A.I. is, in a word, fascinating.
2	Jasongirl67	30 _18th
One of the most confusing movies I've seen in a while I think the main issue is it has too many different ideas going on at one time Yet despite my complaining there is something oddly touching about a robot who wants to be a real boy At the end of the day not very good
1	redmachined	80 _66th
Great film until the end.
1	Mikul	75 _38th
If Kubrick/Spielberg had ended this weeper where he should instead of dragging it out for another twenty or thirty minutes,it would rate hugher.
1	abbynormal	70 _22nd
Spielberg ruined this movie. It should've ended with the little boy sitting at the bottom of the sea, wistfully talking to the statue he thought was his mother.
1	Tadeas	75 _66th
Great plot, bit too sweet (Spilbergs work?) Entertaining and good philosophy and basic values presentation. And its not pathethic, silly or teaching.
1	andrej	80 _40th
It would get 90% if Spielberg cut out the meaningless violence scenes at robot rodeo (?)... The end of the movie is great.
1	StarSiren	70 _45th
It has it's moments but I really really disliked the end.
1	ASyD	70 _35th
horrible ending, but i kinda like this movie...great performance from Haley Joel Osmont
1	svicciarelli	75 _21st
Beautiful nonsense.
1	jimmynmu	83 _77th
This film is breath taking at parts, it's too bad Spielberg wasn't able to turn it into a true masterpiece.
1	grimace98	35 _23rd
Yes, this movie should have ended a lot sooner. But the last shot should have been HJO burning out and dying under the sea from wearing out after however many hundreds of years.
1	erbenz	80 _75th
An overlong movie, but one worth watching. Acting is very good, and Spielberg's direction is technically superb.
1	remis	49 _31st
its nice but it gets more and more boring 'till you fall asleep
1	ServantDagon	86 _72nd
Underrated sci-fi drama.
1	JoshStew06	89 _82nd
This movie I've really grown to love. Not everyone agrees on it, but I think it's a powerful look at a haunting future. Haley Joel Osment is so good it's unreal (fittingly) as a robot boy. All the performances are top notch, and the visuals are outstanding. Spielberg packs every frame with wondrous images and leads this story to a polarizing, but fitting ending.
1	glentot	90 _80th
I loved the film the second time I saw it..
1	Gareth Watkins (FilmRot.com)	80 _52nd
Spielburg took over this movie, which he was only producing to begin with, after Stanley Kubrick passed away and it tugs on the heart strings in the way only Spielburg can! Both Jude Law and Haley Joel Osment give great performances as the robots on a quest to enable Osment to become a "real boy".
1	yilb	20 _7th
Wow! Three movies in one! Starts with a creepy interesting movie, turns into the action adventure movie that you would expect & then for the final third, transmutes into a slogging endless bore! All the time it makes less & less sense! Special appearance by humanoid aliens from M2M! Who hasn't seen this yet anyway? In a word: sucks!
1	rockwell	57 _20th
spielberg is over rated
1	cruelclown	95 _97th
I didn't even need to watch it again, I just though about it years after I've seen it and it is such a great film. Maybe some day people will turn back see this as a much better film than Wizard of Oz etc. It takes the essence of being a child(=being loved unconditionally) and puts in a radically different context.
1	redgrog	80 _28th
If only this movie ended half an hour earlier.
1	irvinejump	40 _25th
Just how many times can you remake Pinocchio???
1	Tate	60 _19th
Complicated, but interesting work that ultimately feels out of Spielberg's league. It's too harsh a movie for him to be behind, so when he opts for sugar in sour scenes, it rubs the wrong way. Still interesting and probably his most unique work.
1	crbanet	92 _94th
One of my fave movies of all time!
1	trile	35 _26th
If Cubrick did this instead of crapy jew, who would know what it would be. Kid acts fantastic, Law also, but screenplay is far from good. Gataca with similar point is much better.
1	BBBD	51 _19th
The good: Teddy is one of the baddest muthafukkaz ever. Great character. The bad: This movie kicks you in the balls with a terrible ending. Protip: Press "stop" on your DVD player at the two hour mark for the alternate ending.
1	grimsooth	67 _68th
I wish Kubrick would have finished this one, but Spielberg got his happy juice all over it and screwed it up. Make sure you turn it off after the water freezes, thats where the movie should have ended.
1	SavageLucy42	60 _17th
I didn't care for it. It's worth a watch just for the total mindfuck.
1	nikkirhodes	34 _10th
this movie was so long and boring that i died while watching it.
1	TheDiceman	55 _49th
Not bad.
1	supergloo	1 _1st
A lengthy sci-fi flick where the characters are creepy and/or annoying and the scientists are trying hard to teach the robots human emotions like "love" and "unhealthy obsession." With a preposterous chain of events--preposterous even by sci-fi standards--leading to a bewildering bathetic ending calculated to wring tears from the audience like a wet rag being wrung on wash day.
1	dwhee	82 _81st
Haunting and creepy. I almost feel as though some of its substance was lost to Spielberg's desire to add a few touching moments. Still a pretty good film.
1	Ytadel	3 _28th
Just rewatched for the first time since seeing it in theaters in 2001. 15-year-old me and 32-year-old me differ in many ways, but one thing we share is that we both find everything after the words “two thousand years went by” to be one of the most inexplicable sequences ever put to film. Ending aside, while the film does have standout scenes and visuals, it also feels like of a mess of half-explored ideas, narrative dead ends and filler subplots. Also, Dr. Know - what happened to Wikipedia?!
1	krytonix	80 _81st
Too long, and the narration is pretty corny, but still very enjoyable on the whole. I'm a sucker for a sci-fi adventure story.
1	jayaprakashs	60 _69th
It has some really good moments and then is (literally) submerged in maudlin sentiment. Kids, SF, Spielberg...uerghh.
1	Vince Leo (Qwipster's Movie Reviews)	85 _94th
Slow, confusing, ugly, sad, brutal, unsettling, unsatisfying... Brilliant.
1	RDP	81 _72nd
When I first read about AI and that Speilberg had discussed the movie with Kubrick for years, I knew that this was something special. But the movie is a fractured as Sybil. As much as I LOVE Ministry, I wish they were not in this movie. The whole flesh fair changes the pacing and feel of the movie. It redeems itself by the end, and really is a beautiful film, the middle drags so much that I can't score it any higher.
1	mullacy	85 _90th
A pretty good sci fi world, but with added Speilberg sentimentality.
1	barracuda	84 _73rd
A.I awsome indeed
1	xgp1029	87 _95th
Great movie if they ended it 10 minutes early
1	gringotavy	98 _98th
Beautiful film. When is a human a human? When, if ever, it is ok to kill someone?
1	slobone	90 _88th
Underrated Spielberg is haunting and very imaginative. Strange that a film developed by Kubrick would match Spielberg's favorite themes so perfectly.
1	HOUND16	92 _87th
Long fucking movie. Very very intriguing plot. I really actually liked it for some odd reason. I like futuristic spacial bllshit.
1	madiso	85 _97th
futuristic pinocchio and i saw what can happen to the world near future
1	MunchForever	77 _48th
It's slow, it's long and it's depressing, but it's Spielberg and his style really shows. It's a decent movie and definitely worth a shot.
1	MJVmovieMan	73 _60th
Steven Spielberg put a lot of heart into this dark sci-fi fantasy about a future full of robots. Not up there with his classics, but still worth seeing.
1	Grit	33 _27th
It is most definitely epic, but I could never fully attach to the film even though the concept is fundamentally an interesting one. Somehow it lacks the charm of other similar films and in my opinion suffers for it. Maybe I'm being a little harsh, but this sure isn't Spielberg's best.
1	absentis	51 _31st
A great film to look at and also a great story that was let down by the director. Seriously, would have been awesome if the stopped the film 15-20min before the end. The vision of the future is great and it those explore some good moral issues.
1	JooJoo	4 _55th
Well, it tried. I'm gonna give it points for trying.
1	zae	75 _66th
Spielberg does Kubrick, but does not quite have the talent to pull it off. There's still enough compelling content in there for me to rate it quite highly, but it feels like, in the hands of a more capable director, it would've had the potential to be a real masterpiece. Such a shame.
1	amerigo	92 _97th
A film that's more about aesthetics than ideas. Spielberg has done Kubrick justice. Yes, even the ending is well-done, despite what others may say.
1	Matthias99	89 _59th
A really interesting movie. Osment is great, as is Law.
1	ads_smiff	18 _2nd
Dull Dull Dull
1	st_fly	0 _2nd
Big Honking pile of Crap
1	kdevine	50 _3rd
A loooooong movie with no passion
1	KasperL	80 _86th
Another brilliant Haley Joel Osment performance.
1	Leech	20 _1st
Bored, pure bullshit.
1	phaedrus	70 _78th
The first third was crap, the second third was good bordering on great, and the final third was silly.
1	maxfischar	90 _76th
Extremely underrated sci-fi masterpiece.
1	nickeyelysse	75 _53rd
I watched this after hearing about it in an extra credit lecture. Very moving.
1	panzerwolf	70 _56th
It would have been so much better if the movie had ended just a bit earlier. Still, overall very watchable movie, especially when I did not really know what to expect.
1	Jeb	79 _62nd
Kubrick's half of the movie is a triumph! Spielberg's part is decent enough too, with Haley Joel Osment stealing the spotlight along with William Hurt. This is most definitely intelligent, witty, advanced and a delight from start to finish.
1	TV+Film-Hub	10 _52nd
The saddest film I ever saw. Beautiful, but so very depressing. Not really my things, but it maybe yours.
1	INDYATMN	60 _11th
Was there a chance in hell critics weren't go to spooge all over Kubrick's pet project? Mankind's brillliant first A.I. duplicates humans in every way, but someone forgot to program him 2 not be monstrously creepy & stand over u with a pair of scissors while ur sleeping. He could've also used some kind of warning sticker 2 not let him near any bodies of water lest he drag u 2 ur death after he falls in. As for that ending? Apparently it's meant 2 b advanced robots, but how the f-ck can we tell?
1	Joelius	12 _10th
So boring it almost killed a small country.
1	Neonman	69 _35th
This film really wrestles with me. It seems like such a magnificent masterpiece that's HUGELY flawed with massive bugs. The moral and thematic conceptions are interesting to me, but their worn on the sleeves on this film so largely rather than be driven by a storyline; which is why I like Jude Law's section (middle act) more (and as always Jude Law rocks). But some of the moments in the start and end feel amazing, but forced, which is ... an unusual position to be in.
1	chemical404	57 _51st
Saw this film in cinema, when it came out. Time flies, eh... A family film of epic proportions. Doesn't feel as long as it is, but that special something that makes films classic is missing. The plot is one note and too sentimental. A fairy tale with robots.
1	Chrisso	55 _5th
Dont bother. And I like Scifi
1	cult_of_same	25 _25th
Incompatible visions pull the film apart.
1	Fake Shemp	73 _65th
[SUPPORTED THEATRICALLY]
1	royalpayne	80 _32nd
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long
1	HyphenateMe	83 _90th
This movie was long. It was a long movie.
1	Abbie	100 _96th
Love it!
1	Councillor	39 _21st
No intelligence.
1	stevemoser	82 _48th
Ran a bit long but I liked it.
1	Zang	80 _66th
A great story, but relies too much on SFX, almost a Mad Max Thunderdome feel to it.
1	eric-jan	75 _74th
Distant future movies rule! I think it's a good thing movie writers already think about the problems which would occur if certain stuff was possible.
1	niteswimming	90 _73rd
thought provoking
1	marc01	70 _40th
Not as bad as everyone say.
1	pompousass	20 _44th
Spielberg's futuristic tale (a project taken over from the late Stanley Kubrick) of the first robot programmed to love. Once we get past the husband's gaucherie of bringing home the boy-toy as a surprise gift ("I can't accept this! There is no substitute for your own child!"), the questions, the issues, the possibilities sprout like mushrooms. Spielberg transforms the story into (what else?) a quest: a ghastly, gaudy, overblown, rambling, ridiculous, pretentious, self-conscious, academic "myth."
1	walkearth	85 _98th
Kubrick's ending is perfect. The film is the ultimate tribute to both directors' work.
1	Seryxa	25 _43rd
Overlong, often spectacular, but fuzzy updating of the story of Pinocchio. Beneath its surface gloss, and sentimental whimsy, there is a darker theme of the end of humankind: the narrative equates love with biological imprinting and prefers mechanical fantasy to messier humanity.
1	Kusanagi	90 _96th
One of my personal favorite robot movies. Such a spectacle, so horrific, and so human.
1	Myszatek	73 _47th
It is a decent movie but it lacks soul
1	Gary P	90 _76th
Very good film. Good insight into human needs, the need to be loved, jealousy, and malice.
1	Piglet	69 _53rd
Hey Joe! What do you know? The Pinocchio story taken to the future, and it kind of works, although it's a bit melodramatic.
1	Rocketlucco	50 _34th
Overall Enjoyment: 20/40, Plot/Themes: 10/20, Cinematography/Direction: 10/20, Acting/Writing: 10/20
1	lupister	45 _47th
sappy
1	Anselmi86	78 _65th
Would have been an absolutely fantastic film, if not for the last 20 or so minutes. Fantastic visuals and great performances by Law and O'Conner. Kubrick and Spielberg blend well together.
1	Okkervil	65 _59th
Epic production values and solid concepts pull this movie through. Ultimately however Spielberg probably should have left Kubrick's final vision well alone.
1	ivanstrel	61 _5th
This movie had at least 3 distinct endings, but it just kept rolling on. I can't imagine what it would've been like to sit through it in a theater.
1	madgnome	80 _33rd
Feels too much like Steven Speilberg doing a Kubrick film.
1	catfingers	60 _35th
smaltz
1	Kelleri	65 _50th
If this movie had ended when he jumped into the water, it would have had a much higher score.
1	mwgerb	59 _63rd
A sci-fi fairy tale that doesn't quite live up to its potential. Despite several moments of greatness, the introduction isn't smooth, some of the events don't mesh well, and the themes of existentialism sometimes feel like they clash with the sentimentality.
1	Squarehead	40 _25th
I thought that this was setting itslf nicely as an interesting analysis of "the human condition", but it all goes wrong at the end. I know it's a sci-fi film but the whole edifice comes crashing down when we meet the aliens from the year 5000. Surely the team could have delivered an ending that was less sentimental and more in keeping with the bleaker emotions of the film? Oh, Law was excellent though.
1	ratinenj	75 _18th
The first part of the movie is great (like could be if made by Kubrick) but the latter part if awful.
1	Dinosaur	70 _25th
You can almost tell at which point Stanley Kubrick died. I once read a review that said "His love is real but his acting is awful".
1	FrederikA	50 _33rd
Basically three really different short movies packed into one. To decent ones and one beginning with a sign saying "2000 years later"
1	DavidBlast	50 _44th
There is good stuff in there, but the fairytale structure wraps it in one layer too many, and the overall story becomes flat and disengaging.
1	Kiralio	60 _68th
3/5
1	demiurge	61 _30th
This has a lot of good parts but I have a feeling it could have been a lot better with a rewrite that cut 30 minutes off.
1	newbiepsych	71 _34th
Very dark fantasy, well directed by Steven Spielberg and brilliantly acted.
1	sindi182	77 _30th
Interesting, original idea!
1	dcolver	10 _15th
Spielberg is as illustrious as they come but I'm afraid I found this film entirely boring.
1	theyshoot10	59 _18th
812
1	ScrumYummy	75 _71st
Moderately too self-aware. (the eh, film, not the boy.)
1	tinysausage	81 _86th
Pinocchio retold. Just the right side of sickly sweet (but only just). But, wow, does it look good!
1	glm	70 _44th
70.375
1	Lilarcor	79 _64th
Goes strange ways and almost invisibly turns into a very emotional drama of a mother-son relationship. The sci part of the sci-fi kind of falls apart in the second half of the movie and the drama is not likely to work with everyone. Crazy but bold ending, I like the attempt.
1	Sinclair	77 _30th
If it ended about ten minutes earlier, it would be a much better movie, there is still something there.
1	xmulderx	10 _18th
Y A W N
1	MetaBrain	88 _58th
Saw it a long time ago, a really good and interresting plot.
1	Wezzo	77 _42nd
A.I. isn't quite as intelligent as it thinks it is - its social commentary is often as subtle as a bargepole - but it's a great accomplishment nonetheless, offering a thoughtful and fascinating sci-fi-age fairy tale, feeling and looking appropriately epic.
1	akXin	75 _32nd
a heartbreaking movie
1	DavidJohnson	73 _49th
This is not a very good science fiction movie, but there are other elements which are good. All of the family bits are well done, and fun to watch. The rest of the movie is engaging enough, but it doesn't seem to have much of a point, even though it thinks it does. Too much filler in the middle. The ending seems kind of out of the blue, it could have ended when he was at the bottom of Manhattan, but that is too bleak for a Spielberg film (even though apparently Kubrick wrote it that way).
1	closedmouth	50 _10th
Witness the beautiful tower of Kubrick destroyed by the wrecking ball of Spielberg.
1	dashakol	70 _0th
if not just only for that scene which he waits thousands of years for the fairy to get answer.
1	Naypalm	72 _46th
Seems a bit too long and the ending is a bit ridiculous (even though I loved it).
1	SlantMag	30 _78th
"A film that is as haunting as it is painfully messy." - Ed Gonzalez
1	ArmondWhite	5 _0th
Back to the womb in A.I., Artificial Intelligence, Steven Spielberg probes affections that get callused over with age, forgetfulness and cultural habit. It's the most profound treatment of a child' life since Terence Davies' The Long Day Closes.
1	B-Dawk20	90 _75th
Enjoyability 23/25 Visuals 13/15 Audio 7/10 Acting 6/10 Story/Plot 19/25 Production Values 9/10 Intuitiveness/Ambitiousness 5/5 Bonus 8/10
1	johnnydark	81 _39th
If it weren't for the tacked on ending, this movie would have lived on as a hard science fiction cult classic.
1	InaGouveia	79 _52nd
A good plot, good film
1	davisty69	83 _59th
Severely underrated
1	damil	70 _67th
For the most part, I really enjoyed this movie. I loved the first half, liked the third quarter and wasn't really sure exactly what I felt about the last quarter. The visual effects were really great overall. I thought Haley Joel Osment was good. Two things I really disliked were Chris Rock's and Robin Williams' cameos - tacky and took me right out of the story. But all in all, a touching, well-made film with an epic scope. Also, I loved Teddy.
1	ernani10	75 _60th
The only movie that made me cry in 2004
1	paleAvenger	60 _6th
A bafflingly convoluted movie too depressing to be worth the mental effort.
1	Ptendency	100 _99th
Una de mis pelis preferidas.. es espectacular..
1	nunorelvao	90 _75th
In Sci-Fi genre it has excelent FX and story, as a Drama it is a trully emotional story that will touch every heart... It isn't better 'in my opinion', just because it has some long and paused scenes...
1	Fresh	73 _44th
A curious, not always seamless, amalgamation of Kubrick's chilly bleakness and Spielberg's warm-hearted optimism, A.I. is, in a word, fascinating.
1	Duval Spit	89 _86th
One of my favorite Spielberg movies... until the last 15 minutes. Truthfully, when I watch it now I turn it off at the part I think it should end.
1	Wandar	92 _81st
One of my favorite movies but the last 20 minutes should be cut.
1	sickbay	71 _22nd
It will make you cry.
1	SSgtChris	60 _14th
Another Spielberg letdown... Skip if you can
1	m_rubio	75 _23rd
I remember watching this when I was younger. I thought it was a pretty cool movie. I'd like to revisit and watch this again soon.
1	joeheath11	82 _55th
Amazing ending
1	eCitizen	90 _88th
A good cast along with a compelling story. Engaging & entertained throughout. Young Haley Joel Osment was great as the naive robot boy. Jude Law a comical robot gigolo. Frances O'Connor the beautiful loving mom. Great production quality & music. Mostly it was awesome. Clever, sweet, sentimental, sad & even a little heart breaking. Excellent CGI, SFX, music & some very iconic imagery. Some very awkward & dark moments. Weird ending aliens & idiotic science. Sappy but sweet ending. Flawed but fun.
1	Ryan Lueders (ReelRyan)	81 _60th
A strange combination of Drama and Science Fiction that mirrors the story of Pinocchio. There are a lot of strange cameos, my favorite being Meryl Streep doing the voice of the Blue Fairy. Jude Law was especially good in this as Joe the Gigolo. It's a really long movie and takes a really strange turn at the end, but it is mostly enjoyable. The one thing that this movie teaches is that humans better not create real living A.I. because we'll treat them worse than we treat each other now.
1	Minorsage	85 _95th
I think I picked ending #1 - #3 was just a bit excessive. Great movie.
1	comepelicula	45 _30th
It is an ok movie, is entertaining but is not going to last in my memory. The movie starts very well but then it gets slow and the story turns absurd towards the end.
1	tiffygabi	100 _86th
My all-time favorite movie. An absolute masterpiece. Takes my breath away.
1	gkfilm	75 _89th
Entertainment: 4. Spirit: 1. Sustainability: 1. Family: 1.5
1	SaffronAJK	87 _65th
Fucking creepy ass movie.
1	cubeless	65 _59th
nice
1	nequient	85 _54th
Beautiful movie, if a tad contrived and predictable. Like much of Spielberg's work, it's prettier than it is meaningful, and the flashy direction is almost enough to distract from the cliched plot. Great casting call on Osment.
1	Arggy	85 _54th
Get ready to cry.
1	Merv_Taylor	96 _91st
Fantastic
1	Dash	70 _57th
This movie had an interesting and even touching story that explored the future of robotics. The characters were deep and the acting was outstanding, but the ending was just bad.
1	Ag0stoMesmer	5 _98th
Brilliant effects, Law and Osment give great 'uncanny valley' performances. Absorbing story that pushes for a weepy ending; perhaps pushes a little too hard -'breaks' things for some- but over all I really enjoyed this.
1	cpreview	8 _73rd
Originally convieved of by Stanley Kubrick, Spielberg took the reigns of this wonderful Pinocchio tale done in cyberpunk. This story is about a robot who wants to be a "real boy" so that his mother will really love him. Like Pinocchio, he goes on a journey of discovery. Although there are a few over-the-top scenes, the FX is awesome and the acting is wonderful. AI definitely inspires discussion if nothing else.
1	fra paolo	43 _42nd
Spielberg ruins a Kubrick project.
1	bradleyb	97 _85th
I can feel thin ice shattering for miles under my weight as I offer this score, but I just can't help it. This film worked for me on so many levels that I would find it too time-consuming to write and the reader too tedious to read.
1	tf-	76 _50th
Good futuristic approach, slightly scary.
1	TheEscapist	70 _46th
Deals with interesting subject matter, but as a film this didn't quite satisfy me.
1	VengefulKBM	80 _75th
I know I'm in the minority, but I really like every part of A.I. I find it charming, and I have no problem with the ending. It's a nice, poetic fairy tale, that does justice to two brilliant filmmakers.
1	Nick Hamden (Gorgon Reviews)	60 _47th
Loved it my first viewing. Kind of slower on repeat attempts unfortunately.
1	TinyBonanza	60 _69th
yo was makin out haaard durin this one
1	rttntomatoes	73 _47th
A curious, not always seamless, amalgamation of Kubrick's chilly bleakness and Spielberg's warm-hearted optimism, A.I. is, in a word, fascinating.
1	RLadino	84 _31st
up until a certain point..its on its way to 100...then the movie doesn't end (sadly) and last 45 min (it feels like HOURS) goes on & on & on......
1	warrensm	62 _35th
Conventional, corny, and sappy elements aside, Steven Speilberg did a modest job completing the Speilberg-esque movie his pal Stanley Kubrick always wanted to do.
1	pineapple	70 _51st
It's so hard to put together a coherent opinion of this film. On the one hand, I love it so much. The unapologetic way it presents its vision of the future strikes home for me, absorbs me into its world utterly and makes me feel strongly for its characters. But it's so flawed. The acting is, frankly, poor. The plot wanders from one place to another; few of the progress is affected by the characters' actions, instead they're prodded along almost exclusively by external events. I still love it.
1	schwabe	75 _30th
a strangely twisted modern day Pinocchio kind of story. haley joel osment is one young great actor, many adult ones could learn from him. what a talent! he really makes the movie.
1	Armilio	58 _21st
In the first part, i have seen kubrick's hands on the film. Maybe it was an allucination, but i have seen those. Those cold and analytic but curious eyes. After, in the second half, it became a Pinocchio fable, a classic Spielberg tale, and starts to go downhill. But if the movie ended with the child remaining in the sea forever, it could had been a good movie. But no, Spielberg cannot let it finish sad, he must put humanoid and ultra-intelligent alien with a tearjerker ending. Wasted.
1	tarantella	72 _26th
Would have been one of the best sci-fi's if the ending wasn't there. It just breaks everything about the movie.
1	Pablo Clavo	95 _93rd
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1	RYM	60 _43rd
2.98/5
1	FrancoGonzo	18 _96th
Star Rating: ★★★★★
1	CountLemon	60 _67th
The creepy bear stole the show. Best part of movie.

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