Andriod fans if you’re expecting an Isacc Asmanov quality, you’ll be greatly disapointed. See ’’Bicentenial Man’’ or the Anime classics ’’Ghost in the Shell.’’ They are much better android movies and more Intelligent than A. I.
This is an Emperors New Clothes movie, because of the great film makers involved, most people wont say anything bad about it, and they will convince themselves that they liked it, even if they were board to tears, like I was.
The story is too well known. In a single sentence. A damned Anroid or a robot or some piece of tin and iron trying to be more human. (oh-hum , so intresting !)
Is this a cutesy, cuddly retelling of Pinochio, complete with jiminy cricket fill-in Teddy the Bear? Or is this a gripping adult drama about the conflicts between artificial and natural intelligence, including a not altoghether fleeting expoloration of mechanized sex for hire? Or is it an exploration of the emotion of love itself, and how it might even transcend a definitively human level? Well, I believe the third proposition is the most relevant, but it is too intermixed with a confusing presentation of the first two to come across very effectively, even with all of Spielberg’s usual and adept as always magic at his disposal. This combined with one of the most bizaare transitions of a movie I have ever seen in which we arrive (without wanting to spoil) rather suddenly at the ending of another famous Speilberg effort with only a brief narrator (who waited, by the way, to well over two hours into this movie to pop on in there) to explain. None of it ever seems to gel, despite another bravero perfomance by Osment. His pairing with gigalo joe is never satisfactorily fleshed out, and jude law spends much of the movie with absolutley nothing to do but stand around. By the time Mr. Spielberg has finally settled overwhelmingly on the fairly tale, there has been too much Kubrick inspired mischief in the shadows for a violent, however somber, return to E.T.-ville.