15 Most Over-Rated Movies Of The 21st Century

A.I. began life back in the early 1970s when Stanley Kubrick started devising an idea for a sci-fi take on Pinocchio based on writer Brian Aldiss’s short story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long. Put on the back burner for decades due to other commitments and because Kubrick didn’t think CGI was advanced enough to do his idea justice, the film was eventually resurrected in the late 1990s following Kubrick’s death with Steven Spielberg taking over directorial duties.

Though its ending is rumoured to have had grown, manly film critics filling cinema aisles with salty tears of sorrow, the resulting film was an awkward hybrid of Kubrick’s darker-edged vision Spielberg’s signature mawkish sentimentality. Though Kubrick himself approved of Spielberg directing A.I. having suggested it several times during its lengthy development, it’s hard not to wonder what the film would be like with Kubrick at the helm.