akileinstein
The director has taken a good effort in getting his ideas collected in a robot. The boy reminds of future generation kids.
zaremskya-23761
Originally a dream from the brilliant Stanley Kubrick, A.I. is a great bit of Science Fiction. It dwells on powerful and human themes from the perspective of the mechanical. This is the main goal of the film, to explore and examine what makes us human with beings that are almost, but not quite. The protagonist, who is done justice by Haley Joel Osment's great performance, has all the characteristic's of a human child, and has even been programmed to feel love and attach to other humans. A curious characteristic for a machine. The film revolves around his quest to become human so he can fully love, not just be programmed to love, as he wants to be with his adopted human mother.This major theme carries the film well. There is the standard flair of flashy Sci-Fi and adventure, but the theme of love is so all-pervading, warm, and powerful, that you cannot escape it. It guides the characters just like any other film, despite the fact that they are machines. That is the magic here, and the gift of Spielberg, to take powerful themes and explore them in ways no other filmmaker can. The result is very effective.
alessacarri
I remember seeing this film when i was a child, i have the memorie of being blown away by the way the "future" factor is put, i belive that this film made something that any other, Spielberg showed us a innovative side of the future.
Something that i want to point out is how they manage the first part of the movie that is filled with so many neon colors and people, fun, an eye catching future but then the world surrounding David turns grey, the sudden change of color is something 'simple' but 'powerful'.
And the way they give logic explanations for some situations is amazing, you're not left out like "This doesn't make sense, why they don't do this..." and i hate that! Movies should make you believe their world 100%.
This film is surely one of the films that i'll look back and think about it.
Sean Richard McCarthy
I have not read all the reviews, so I am not sure if anyone else has mentioned that this movie is very much like the movie D.A.R.Y.L. (an older movie about a robot boy). If you ask me, Stanly was inspired by D.A.R.Y.L, and decided that the story was so good that it had to be re-made better! Good job Stanly, and thanks Steven for finishing this work of art, at the request of Stanly's wife, after Stanly death. Stanly wanted a real robot to play the part of David (as Steven explains in the extras included with the DVD release), but it was just too much to ask for. Haley Joel Osment is the best boy actor, to play the part of David, as Steven makes very clear. At times this movie can be quite boring, but it is well worth the wait, as it has a great ending (said to be one of the most depressing).