The brilliant filmmaker Stanley Kubrick (“2001: A Space Odyssey”) came up with the concept for the film “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” and then he passed the torch as such to Steven Spielberg (“Jaws”) to direct this emotional sci-fi journey.

“A.I.” is the story of a couple whose son is cryogenically preserved because of an illness he has so they adopt a robot boy named David (Hayley Joel Osment “The Sixth Sense”). After adjusting to him his mother (Frances O’Connor “Timeline”) decides to use the special code so that David will give her unconditional love but then her son Martin comes out of the hospital and then tricks David into getting some of his mother’s hair for a lock that they can keep but David accidentally injures his mother. After the two seem to be friends David accidentally is responsible for the near-death of his brother. He is then left to his own devices and goes in search of the Blue Fairy from “Pinocchio” to become a ‘real’ boy.

Hayley Joel Osment really is quite good as the robotic child David who desires his mother’s love. Jude Law (“Sherlock Holmes”) is bland as the male gigolo robot Joe and the character is severely letting the film down. David’s mother is played well.

All-round I was a little disappointed in “A.I.” but it was still a good film. The special effects are amazing, so is some of the acting and the plot gets gripping as it goes along and I’m sure I shed a tear at the film’s emotional ending not because I was depressed but because it ended on the most beautiful of endings. “A.I.” has so many positives but I feel there’s a portion of the film that sadly detracts from the positives and lowers it down I do however recommend “A.I.” to those looking for an emotional sci-fi.