What's worse? This or A.I.?

Rating: 1/10 (2 January 2006)

Why is it that when Spielberg is great, he's really great but when he does something horrible like this, it's REALLY HORRIBLE? This is the worst movie I have seen seen A.I. - his other really horrible movie.
Tom Cruise was totally unbelievable in this character. Tim Robbins - what WAS his character supposed to be doing? Dakota Fanning? She's usually great but only tolerable in this role. Did Spielberg phone the entire thing in? Was he even there while they were trying to act this out? You have three normally BRILLIANT actors doing the wost jobs of their careers - almost like they had NO direction but because of their experience, that really couldn't be the case.
The movie started out with a BIG bang and promised to be exciting. But then it just made no sense. Nothing flowed and there were horrible plot flaws throughout. They all run into the one room of the basement that had a window shedding light into it. Then they closed the door and it was dark. WHY? What happened to the window? The end was pure schlock. HOW were the people in the one neighborhood in Boston completely unaffected by it all? And HOW did the son beat them there? I'm SO glad we only rented this.