Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

edwardcooper-92204 A.I is a bland but pretty film. Apparently, this was a project Stanley Kubrick wanted to work on desperately but could not, and eventually the entire project was helmed by Steven Spielberg. And herein lies the problem- Both their visions are different. Whilst Kubrick was a notoriously pessimistic (or nihilistic) filmmaker Spielberg is a child at heart, the always optimist. And the film doesn't know which theme to adapt. Haley Joel Osment- fresh off the success of The Sixth Sense is quite good as the main lead who happens to be a robot and the visuals are exciting. But the result is just meh.

mariahopkins-18946 A.I is a bland but pretty film. Apparently, this was a project Stanley Kubrick wanted to work on desperately but could not, and eventually the entire project was helmed by Steven Spielberg. And herein lies the problem- Both their visions are different. Whilst Kubrick was a notoriously pessimistic (or nihilistic) filmmaker Spielberg is a child at heart, the always optimist. And the film doesn't know which theme to adapt. Haley Joel Osment- fresh off the success of The Sixth Sense is quite good as the main lead who happens to be a robot and the visuals are exciting. But the result is just meh.

jimbo-53-186511 Monica and Henry Swinton decide to adopt an 'AI' boy called David as they both fear that their son will never recover from his tragic accident. Although the Swintons initially struggle to adjust to David and his slightly unorthodox ways they gradually start to accept him as their own. However, when their own son Martin makes a recovery a rivalry ensues which forces Monica to abandon David which forces him to pursue his dream of becoming a real boy and being reunited with his 'mother'...The start of the film is intriguing in the sense that you're left wondering how an AI who is as close to being human as possible will interact with a normal family (which is part of Cybertronics master experiment and indeed part of the plot). This sets the tone well and creates some paranoia and intrigue - we're never quite sure how David will react to the family and vice versa. However, it loses itself slightly after a promising start...Once the Swinton's real son Martin is back with the family (he's seemingly cured from whatever happened to him with no real explanation) the film then becomes a pathetic point-scoring exercise between Martin and David - in fact many elements of the first half of the film (particularly between Martin and David) play out like Problem Child on Prozac which hardly makes for a particularly informative, interesting or engaging portion of the film.In the second half, it switches tone slightly in that David is now making it his quest to find the Blue Fairy as he believes that it is the Blue Fairy that can turn him from being a machine into a boy. In the second half we also get introduced to Joe (a camp-as-Christmas Don Juan who is a male gigolo). To be fair, Jude Law's excellent performance and his ridiculous character are the highlights of this film and what a shame it was that it was nearly an hour into the film before he showed up - he was great in every single scene in this film and made sure his screen time was memorable.The final third of the film is quite heart-wrenching and even a cold cynic like me found it quite moving (I won't say anymore than that, but those who have seen the film will know what I mean). It embosses the whole meaning of the film and what it was about and worked for me - although the cynic in me still thinks that Spielberg did manipulate the audience a bit as the script didn't really do enough to really do justice to the final act.Still pound for pound this worked for me and despite being a bit superficial, inconsistent in tone and generally all over the place the film did just about enough to win me over. It's not a great film by any means and certainly not as good as has been touted, but it's worth a look.

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).