Cert: 12 cert
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity:A character is a male prostitute. We see him flirting with woman and preparing for sex, though nothing is shown. Discussion about sex.
A character asks for a ride to a town, promising teens in the car prostitutes in their destination.
A character eagerly wants sex.
A child interrupts a woman sitting on a toilet going to the bathroom. We briefly see her legs and her bare buttocks from the side.
A woman wears a cleavage revealing dress.
Sexual innuendos.
Violence & Gore: One of Joes "women" is found lying dead in a hotel room. Her husband found out about her robot romances and killed her for it. Elsewhere, in a circus of sorts called a "Flesh Fair," robots are destroyed in gruesome ways. Since many of them look and act human, the spectacle takes on a dark hue as acid dissolves their faces, whirling propeller blades make mincemeat of their bodies and fire chars their skin. One machines grisly head flies through the air, landing right in front of David (and moviegoers). In a fit of angst and frustration, David attacks another identical robot asking to be friends, decapitating the being and bludgeoning it with a blunt weapon.
Profanity: 2 uses of d--n, and a uses of similar mild language and insults are scattered throughout
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Adults drink wine with a meal.
Frightening/Intense Scenes: This is actually a very disturbing film - emotionally harrowing, and frightening in many scenes. It is definitely not for small children.
Story: In the not-so-far future the polar ice caps have melted and the resulting rise of the ocean waters has drowned all the coastal cities of the world. Withdrawn to the interior of the continents, the human race keeps advancing, reaching the point of creating realistic robots (called mechas) to serve them. One of the mecha-producing companies builds David, an artificial kid which is the first to have real feelings, especially a never-ending love for his "mother", Monica. Monica is the woman who adopted him as a substitute for her real son, who remains in cryo-stasis, stricken by an incurable disease. David is living happily with Monica and her husband, but when their real son returns home after a cure is discovered, his life changes dramatically.
Likes : This film is why Steven Spielberg is one of the best director's in the world this film stand as monument to Stanley Kubrick film's like 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, In A.I., Spielberg masterfully adopts Kubrick's hard, bare-essentials style of direction, letting the photography tell the story, rather than the dialogue. This style allowed Kubrick to develop an enormous scope of ideas, stories and emotions in his movies. He had difficulty finding the right treatment for A.I. so he handed the project to Spielberg before Kubrick's pass away in 1999 to which Spielberg done a brilliant job at making this film.
"AI" transpires sometime in the near future after the polar ice caps have melted and flooded coastal cities and reduced natural resources. Mechanical androids have become popular since they require no commodities. Reproduction has also become highly illegal. Machines provide sexual services and if anyone wants a child, they will purchase a robot. However, the difference between a robot child and a living child is that robots cannot love.
That's the task professor Hobby (William Hurt) of Cybernetics Manufacturing has solved. He has made a robot child David played by Haley Joel Osment that can love, Haley Joel Osment is amazing, the robot/human emotion must be amazingly difficult to pull off effectively, but Osment does it with such relative ease to the point where you do believe he is a robot, not that he is just acting as a robot. Jude Law is excellent performance as Gigolo Joe , and so to is Frances O'Conner who plays a perfect performance as Monica Swinton. This one of those rare film that come out once in a while that astound the audience with an amazing heart warming story as well as perfect special effects that add to the magic of this film.
This is one of those film that will last a life time still be one of the greatest film to be made 30 years down the line, it one film i recommend watching & having in your DVD collection.
Dislikes : The pace of the film could have been a bit faster,it was a little slow but still a worth watching film.
Overall : brilliantly told story in a Pinocchio concept, great special effects, emotional journey
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 for entertainment / 8.1 out of 10 for story-line/ theme
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