
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 Withdrawn to the interior of the continents, the human race keeps advancing, reaching the point of creating realistic robots (called mechas) to serve them.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 i... (Full plot summary below)
FREE with your Prime (USA) subscription or when you start a 30-day free trial!
Links compiled using automated software. Availability of offers subject to change / might be region specific / out of date.
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 Withdrawn to the interior of the continents, the human race keeps advancing, reaching the point of creating realistic robots (called mechas) to serve them.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.
Leave your thoughts about A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
| Salon.comCharles TaylorFor everything wrong with it, A.I. is not a dismissible film. It's too richly imagined, too accomplished. Even as he botches the emotions and the issues he raises, Spielberg goes headlong into them, wrestles with the picture's conflicting impulses. It's the kind of screw-up you get only from a master filmmaker. |
| Film.comWilliam GossA confined domestic drama, a considerable morality tale, a fleeting futuristic noir, a persecution parable, an on-the-nose fairy tale adventure... and then it keeps going. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonA film that might make you cry watching it is just as likely to give you the creeps thinking about it afterward, which is as it should be. |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonA "good" A.I. would be of infinitely less value than the A.I. that we have...a staggering creation. |
| CinephilesYazmin GhonaimMostly overburdened by the responsibility to stand as an adult fairy tale that integrates the visions of two very distinct filmmakers. |
| Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)Jeffrey WesthoffNo film scholar would pick the populist Spielberg as the esoteric Kubrick's successor. It's as unlikely as Orson Welles collaborating with Walt Disney. |
| Mark Reviews MoviesMark DujsikMy first impression of the ending was that it was too sentimental, yet upon another viewing, I had a completely different reaction--utter appreciation of a work of beauty. |
| MoviolaJorge Avila AndradeSpielberg atraviesa por el mejor momento de su carrera al realizar la que es, por mucho, su película más arriesgada y ambiciosa hasta la fecha |
| Blunt ReviewEmily BluntA.I. is a modern fairy tale for the more computer savvy audience. |
| Miami HeraldRene RodriguezThe most puzzling, trippiest piece of pop fantasy of Spielberg's career. |