10 Most Ridiculously Unearned Movie Twists Of All Time
6. Alien Intervention - A.I.
A glorious joining of directors Steven Spielberg and the late Stanley Kubrick, A.I. Is up there with one of the best sci-fi films of the 21st century. A master at detecting good source material, Kubrick's treatment of Brian Aldiss's short Super-Toys Last All Summer Long was handed to Spielberg who mechanised this tale of a boy robot and applied a sweet lacquer to proceedings. The result is a visual wonder, full of great performances (Jude Law, never better) and an epic plot.
However, all of the above superlatives were written on the basis that the film ends somewhere around the two-hour mark, where David plummets into icy water, repeatedly wishing to become a real boy. What a dark and ambiguous end that would have been - one to make Kubrick proud. Instead, Spielberg goes all deus ex machina on us and has a crew of aliens pull David from his icy tomb and, one lock of hair later, give him one last special day. A saccharine step too far.