Can't agree more...one of the few films I walked out of the theater pissed...
The ending was so over the top, weird, strange, bizarre, thing I have ever seen...
Steven Spielbergs absolutely ruined the movie with his ET / Close encounter type ending...
I'm sure Stanley Kubrick was spinning in his grave...
I hated AI. I still have bad feelings from the crushing sadness of waiting 10000 years to have just one day with the mother who abandoned you.
He thought A.I. was the best picture of the last decade. Here.
Sometimes, it's a visual thing. A critic likes the cinematography and just ignores everything else.