Review of A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) by Jordanlayton — 30 Apr 2020
Wayyyy too many ideas for one film. I was somewhat on board for the first 40 min when it seemed like the film was going to be a meditation on AI and humanity, but the hard left turn into an epic journey through this world that included a charming robot male sex worker, a "Flesh Fair" robot killing pit, an underwater Manhattan, and a time jump of 2000 years leading to an alien race studying humans after the end of the world -- was a bit much.
It's just difficult to glean any centralized theme from this film when there's SO MUCH happening. 90's CG didn't help, some strange acting choices didn't help, I'm not a fan of how hard they leaned into the Pinocchio stuff, and the John Williams score severely overpowered any scenes from the beginning I actually did like.
Would not recommend anyone spend 2.5 hours on this.
This review of A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) was written by Jordanlayton on 30 April 2020.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence has generally received positive reviews.
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