Across town, Jack Mathews, the New York Daily News critic, will have none of it. The emotion you feel may be real. But nothing else is. A.I. represents a unique union of mind and heart that no machine could ever understand, but could one day learn to envy. I found it to be clumsy, misanthropic and intractably lifeless.
Numerous reviews express ambivalent reactions to the movie.
What holds it back from greatness is a failure to really engage the ideas that it introduces. The movie's conclusion is too facile and sentimental, given what has gone before. It has mastered the artificial, but not the intelligence. Andrew Revkin , who wrote the original Times account and served as a creative consultant on the movie, said that the decision to make the movie without the band's involvement came after members demanded creative control. The rest of the video contains hard porn material featuring Caucasian and Asian actors, the government said.