Artificial Intelligence

A good script competently directer by Steven Speilberg, with good acting from Haly Joel Osment. Its a film worth seeing. Overall rating:		A.I. Artificial Intelligence Directed by Steven Spielberg Cast: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Brendan Gleeson Its post global warming in the mid-21st century, man is struggling to cope with the melting of the polar ice caps and the submerging of its coastal cities. In response he develops a form of artificial intellegence to help it deal with these natural disasters. You may think this storyline is a hash job of the 'Terminator' films, but think again, it was originally thought out by Stanley Kubrick. So you dont have robots turning against their creaters and fighting to the death. So these new computers are aware of thier own existence and are placed in andriods to make them a productive part of the local populations. So this is the scenario, David is a young boy of 11, he weighs 60 pounds, he is 4 feet 6 inches tall, he has brown hair, his love is real, he is not. This film is about his emotional odyssey to find out if he can be anything more than a collection of subroutines. This storyline is very familiar to the film D.A.R.Y.L. (Data Analysing Robotic Youth Lifeform) that starred Barret Oliver as a young boy with a computer inside a human body. That was an enjoyable movie for its time and so is this one. The question on everybody's mind is why did this film fall in Spielberg's hands? Real fans of SciFi feared that Kubrick's masterpiece scifi story was likely to be watered down to a slight melodrama more along the lines of ET or Close Encounters. We dont know what Kubrick had originally planned for this movie so we dont know if this is a watered down version. Still, it is believed that Kubrick dicussed this film with Speilberg and has gone as far as saying he believed that Speilberg was the right director for the movie. I think studio executives also didnt mind this film going to Speilberg as his appeal would bring in a larger audience.