When the Swinton's son Martin is put into a coma to delay the progress of an incurable disease they are offered a prototype mecha David (Haley Joel Osment) that is capable of emotion and more complete human interaction to assauge their grief.
This does not go as planned.
I dunno. This does classic "robots are people too" science fiction stuff and has great plans but that's the problem. It feels like various sections of a sweeping story assembled but with large bits still missing and most of them fizzle or end arbitrarily.
David encounters good and bad in the world. Gigolo Joe (Jude Law) is fun as the sexbot on the run but then there's the Flesh Fair that's obviously just there to show humans being beastly but kind of fizzles out. Likewise when he finds his maker that section too just gets kind of dropped for some arbitrary happenstance based on ending up in just the right place.
The final section might be saccharine but it is at least fully rounded.
Is there a three hour cut that's less arbitrary/episodic? That might be better.
Sadly it's pretty much what I was expecting when I didn't bother to watch it on release 6/10.