Minority Report
June. 21,2002 PG-13John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
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Just perfect...
If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.
Minority Report is a stylish neo- noir science fiction from Steven Spielberg destined to become a classic of the future. Taking place in 2054 it concerns a group of police force which are equipped with the capability to foresee a crime about to happen with the help of three mutated humans called "precogs". Unfortunately for John Anderton (Tom Cruise) as he sets up to work on the next crime about to happen he is horrified to see that the offender is he himself. What follows is a cat and mouse hunt which involves his entire corporation and then some. The visual effects are amazing, and the tone of the film is finely balanced between dreary, rainy grey and futuristic blue. Cruise and Colin Farrell star. Great movie.
In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder. Minority Report is based on a short story from Philip K. Dick who wrote Blade Runner (1982) and Total Recall (1990) with both of those stories of course turning into books sort after plus the film was sceduled as a Total Recall sequel but then was re-written and stars Tom Cruise and Colin Farrell. First of all this movie is beautiful in terms of special effects, the perfomances are very good and the story is packed with lots of twists, suspense and action that fans of Steven Spielberg and Cruise won't be disappointed by. (10/10)
Lamar Burgess (Max von Sydow) would have done well not to make my summary statement listed above to John Anderton (Tom Cruise). With all that futuristic technology at his disposal, he should have known it would come back to haunt him. I thought this was a well constructed sc-fi mystery thriller based on a Philip K. Dick short story. Since the picture was made all the way back in 2002, I'm kind of surprised we don't have the kind of targeted advertising shown in the film smacking us in the face yet. Just as well, pop-ups on one's computer screen are annoying enough as it is. At the heart of the story is an idea that I believe will be the downfall of a lot of visionary technology that scientists and corporations expect for the future, that being the fallibility of the human factor. As just one example, driver-less cars. Sounds great on paper but they're already killing people.There's just one problem in the script that marred an almost perfect screenplay. Once John Anderton was identified as a red ball murderer, his retina scan clearance should have been automatically removed from the Precrime database. But it wasn't, and if you think about it, that lends credence to the argument I just mentioned in the preceding paragraph. Since that clearance wasn't removed automatically (why not?), then some human in charge screwed up.But with that minor nit-pick aside, I thought this was a well paced thriller, and the final confrontation between Anderton and Lamar had all the classic elements of a Star Trek style conundrum. In other words, if Lamar doesn't kill John, then the precogs are wrong, in which case Precrime gets dismantled. But if Lamar does kill John, the precogs are proven right, but he gets arrested and put away in prison. So the next best alternative.....
Before they joined forces to give sci-fi fans their hugely disappointing version of War Of The Worlds, Spielberg and Cruise worked together on Minority Report, a near-future tale based on a short story by Philip K. Dick in which violent crimes can be predicted and prevented from occurring, the perpetrator intercepted before they can carry out the deed. Star Cruise plays pre-crime cop John Anderton, who finds himself on the run after it is predicted that he himself will commit a murder.The good news is that Minority Report is a lot more enjoyable than the duo's H.G.Wells debacle, with an engrossing murder mystery plot, lots of great visuals, excellent production design, and some well executed and extremely fun action set-pieces, all of which help detract from the story's inevitable paradoxical issues and Spielberg's occasional, frustratingly unrestrained direction (Cruise leaping from car roof to car roof on a towering vertical road stretches plausibility a bit too far, but at least it's not 'nuke the fridge' bad).7.5 out of 10, rounded up to 8 for the 'sick stick' a police baton that makes the victim projectile vomit.