2. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence is a film that’s not remembered for its overly engaging plot, but where it struggles even more is in its pacing. A sci-fi retelling of Pinocchio, A.I. follows David, a young prototype Mecha (android) with emotions who desperately wishes to be a real boy.

After going on a long and dangerous journey in search of “the Blue Fairy” that will make him real, David finds himself trapped in the flooded remains of New York, and then frozen in ice. From here, A.I. limps on, explaining that David sat perfectly still for 2000 years, waiting patiently for the day when he’d become a real boy.

Eventually, aliens arrive, thaw David out, and do their best to make his wish come true. For a number of convoluted reasons, his wish doesn’t quite work out the way he’d hoped, but his waiting is eventually paid off – it’s just a shame that the 2000 years it seemed to take for the credits to finally roll weren’t paid off in the same way.

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