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A.I. (2001)
Steven Spielberg
It’s like a G-rated version of Blade Runner with more emphasis on parentchild
relationships and an ending that’s awfully similar to both 2001 and
Contact. The movie had some cool stuff in it to be sure, like the seamless
and frequent transitions between time (time) and space (specifically air
and water). Plus, I’ll take any chance I can get to see New York City
under 500 feet of water. (Yeah, I said it.) And then there was the whole
Dr. Know sequence, which although it was so Jumanji, was still pretty
cool, at least until they explained it, reminding me of the explanation of
the force we got in Phantom Menace, which was, of course, wonderful.
The whole thing with “Joe the Gigolo” was cool, and the head music thing
was funny the first two or three times. The “Flesh Fair” was nearly cool
even if it was so Running Man. The teddy bear was ten times more
Toblerone than Jar Jar Binks as a sidekick.
All in all, it had lots of cool stuff (the movie just looks great), was
emotionally very gripping, and kept you interested most of the time. I just
think Kubrick would have done more with it. And as someone else
pointed out to me, the ending might have been better if they had just left
him there under water. Instead, Spielberg went Contact on us. Hopelessly
benign aliens are one thing, but hopelessly benign machines?
Schwarzenegger would turn over in his grave. Talk about Sleeping with
the Enemy. “Just give us a piece of bone, a bra, anything, we can rebuild
her—and make a Tyrannosaurus rex too, free of charge.” That said, it has
to be better than Pearl Harbor, Titanic Reloaded and whatever other fifty
million dollar turds are floating around out there now. So you might as
well go see it.
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