Sobs of sadness...for a lost opportunity

Rating: 3/10 (27 January 2017)

I don't understand - how hard was it to consult an actual linguist? You know, before making a sci-fi movie about one? How hard was it to show the script to some producers and curators of actual sci fi to make sure you don't look like a total dolt?
I am glad to see many folks who hated this movie have placed it alongside Inception as over-hyped pseudo-intellectual garbage, and called it out on its needless reliance on cheap, Lifetime-esque human drama in the same vein as Interstellar. I'll hatefully add A.I. to that list, because it's the first sci-fi movie I remember to feature such blatant maudlinism in a cheap attempt to make a festering pile of vomit seem as profound as an actual, non- metaphorical festering vomit pile on a sheet of acid. "Who is this child?" indeed.
Now that I think of it, the plot device rendering AI's ending so particularly odious - thus imbuing it with the emotional equivalent of claws on a chalkboard - was so laughably implausible by even a (non-American) grade school attendee's standards that it could safely be called "magic". In AI's case, it was magic math. And here too, we have the kernel of a decent sci-fi concept wrapped in a greasy wad of inconsistencies, and globbed together with scum-globs of scientific incompetence. Falls apart on every layer like a moldy onion, and tries to make you pay for it with tears.
I give three stars for "Abbott" and his alien buddies. They did alright, considering the sheer stupidity they were up against, both in the actual movie and behind its creative process.