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Title: Spielberg misses big time
Review: Considering the budget and effort, this must be considered one of the worst movies of 2001. The whole movie ultimately revolves around the relationship of a robot child with his human mother and is told (in particular during the second two thirds) completely from the perspective of the child. In doing so, the movie loses its audience after the first 30 minutes or so. The intersting part ends when the kid is abandoned by his human mother. Up to this point the viewer could at least attempt to identify with the human parents. What makes the movie fail subsequently is the fact that the viewer is unable to find any identification points. The child - as emphasized by the movie, remains a machine, ultimately with an off switch. All that is left is a bad version of Pinochio.Maybe this movie might have worked 100 years ago, but not in the year 2001...
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