Directed by Steven Spielberg
Grade: C—
Throughout the course of my movie watching hobby, I think that I can safely declare Steven Spielberg to be one of my favorite movie directors. Most of his films touch the soul, are impressively mounted and filmed, and are all very entertaining! Unfortunately, of all of Spielberg's films that I have seen, A.I. Artificial Intelligence is the only one that I have very much disliked, and only one that I would not ever consider watching again because it does not touch the soul, is not impressively filmed and lacks decent entertainment value. To explain that: A.I. is overlong, preposterous and dreadfully boring, even though the first hour has its moments. Nothing ever really comes to life despite all of the cool, so-called groundbreaking visual effects, and I never felt connected at all with the story of the robot boy who wants to become a real kid. In reality, A.I. is the story of Pinocchio set in a futuristic world. There are still a few notable observations that can be made about A.I: for one, the child performance delivered by Haley Joel Osment is astonishingly impressive, and, believe it or not, the teddy bear was my favorite character! But in watching A.I, I felt so emotionally distant from everything that was happening on screen, and I couldn’t wait for it to end (the ending alone was a major letdown, but Spielberg is usually just a little weak on his endings). All of this is what makes A.I. so unsatisfying, and ultimately, what leads me to decide that A.I is one of the most overvalued films I have seen.
C—
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