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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Artificial Entertainment
Hollywood allows for strange bedfellows. What an odd pairing: Speilberg and Kubrick. The result: a jumbled split-personality of a movie. You're never quite sure if the movie is supposed to be a tragic, unsettling look into the future, or a sci-fi fairy tale. It can't decide what it wants to be either. The movie begs for your affection as much as mecha David begs for that of his "mother". Finally, the ending is the most contrived, ridiculous, and strung-out summation I've ever seen. It's a farce as it touts itself as Kubrick-Speilberg creation but it's too cuddly for Kubrick and too dark for Speilberg. Again, it's like its lead character, David: it never quite understands what it's supposed to be.
Hollow Man (2000)
Pointlessly sick and demented.
The first thirty minutes keeps your interest as dazzling special effects highlight an intriguing new twist to a common premise. But, as soon as Kevin Bacon disappears, so does the interest. The movie quickly falls apart, transforming into a stinking heap of senseless and disturbing violence and all-too-predictable cat-and-mouse chases. My girlfriend and I left the theater in shock; amazed at how easily our twelve dollars disappeared.