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Release Date: 17 December, 2002 Retail Price: $12.99 OUR Price: $9.99 You SAVE: $3.00! Cast: Complete Cast (13 total) |
Minority Report (Widescreen Edition) Reviews
Futuristic psychic adrenaline pumped fugitive style showdown
Ok, so since everyone and their grandma has seen this movie, and I haven't my boyfriend made me watch it; once more he gets a plus and everyone who likes it is correct for I can now see what all the hoopla is about. Since this has over six hundred review and since it seems than everyone has seen it I won't repeat the plot too much.
The movie starts with a bag; a crime is about to be committed and its being foreseen by three "Pre-Cogs," psychic beings ( human) whose visions of murders have never been wrong and who work with the forces that keep murders down to zero. Well Tom Cruise (I'm not a fan either but he's great in this one, I give credit where it's due) ends up seeing himself committing a crime. Since the system has been flawless we know something is up, since he is a good, kind guy and he is not a murderer. His work place is crawling with private investigators who want a closer look, but who seem like they want him to fail.
What I really enjoyed was the suspense, and the mapping of the puzzle; the answer of what the future will really be like for Chief John Anderton (Cruise) and the bad guys are there but you really have no idea who they really are.
There is a lot of futurist cars, police arrests, flying vehicles, insanely modern prison and a huge mystery surrounding the beginning of Pre-Crime which seems to put whoever gets close to revealing its truth in a death set up like the one John is in.
As Anderson is on the run, he goes through incredible lengths to disguise himself in order not to her arrested he must go below the radar of the state-of-the-art automated city, where every step you take is monitored(eye transplant, facial muscle change, tricks and gimmicks) I found myself biting my lips when he came close to some bad ends.
This is definitely a futuristic type of a movie with tons of action, good fighting, great chases, jumping of buildings, going back in the past and getting some sweet revenge. Yes Minority Report is all that you think it will be, and maybe even more....
Spielberg-Cruise collaborate for a visionary milestone
Starting four or five years ago, Cruise began collaborating with high-profile directors and producing some films that far exceeded in some way -- concept or spectacle -- whatever else was out at the time. Suddenly Cruise became not only this big movie star, but a very interesting person besides. MINORITY REPORT, the first Spielberg-Cruise collaboration, is a superior science fiction-action hybrid, with a very intriguing plot, and an ending so far away from the beginning you could lose track of how you got there. In fact, when I saw it the theater, I did. But I didn't get so lost as to lose sight of the fact that an uncompromising science fiction film had just scrambled my mind, and it should be considered an instant classic, perhaps on the level of METROPOLIS. This was a visionary masterpiece.
Set in the far future year of 2054, Anderton (Cruise) is the chief of a new crime unit called Pre-crime. In a bang-up opening sequence that demonstrates how the unit works, a SWAT-like team responds to a notification of a predicted crime by three narcotized psychics afloat in a special isolation chamber. The team invades the house, stops the would-be perpetrator just in the nick of time, then arrests him. Because no actual crime has been committed, the predicted perpetrator is "haloed" -- an electronic headband that's shoved on his head and blanks him out -- and put into a special suspension storage facility. After this sequence, we learn that there hasn't been a murder since the unit went into operation. But it raises sticky moral and constitutional questions about imprisoning someone for a crime that never occurred, and the Pre-crime program is under review. Enter a suspicious agent (Colin Farell), a menacing smartass seemingly with an axe to grind.
Then the "precogs" -- the psychics -- predict the next murder, and the predicted perpetrator is none other than Anderton himself, his murder victim a man he's never even met. Comprehending immediately that he's been set up by someone, he escapes to investigate who did this to him. The escape and pursuit of clues is a formula for action, but what was so uncompromising about this film was, Spielberg and Cruise refused to dumb it down to appeal just to the action crowd. The plot deepens as you go along, even as the action is going full throttle through a tall city, and it`s up to you to keep up.
The cinematography captured the future in muted colors, as if white was the background color for everything, suggesting a hi-tech laboratory somewhere, and the stamp of sterility as a virtue. The city itself is a corporate fantasyland. Every surface serves as an animated billboard scanning the passerby's eyes for identification, triggering sexy advertisements in which svelte models seamlessly refer to you by name and coo the latest fashion accoutrements. The high level of advancement is further suggested by the fact that an ex-con living in a government subsidized apartment building can perform a double eye transplant for a couple of thousand dollars. And there are automobiles that deliver you right up to your apartment, and jet packs and 3-D home movies, and even a retired geneticist-cum-avocational botanist creating slithering plant life to assist in home security. So while you're trying to follow this plot, you can easily be distracted by the technical wonders that regale the senses in almost every scene. I was, which was probably the reason I had to see it twice.
There were respites from the clatter of technology and chase here and there, usually in the homes of the privileged, in the country, where through a lot of dialogue, the plot is deepened and suspicions widened. During it all, there is no cool glibness to fit some movie star's image, no moments of actor self-indulgence. Obviously Spielberg corralled everyone toward creating a real film, and not some blockbuster fiasco to be written off when the receipts were counted and the summer was over.
The image on the DVD is sharp and pristine, capturing what I remembered it looked like in the theater. The second disc has interviews and special effects pieces for those of us who really enjoyed this movie and want to know all about it. For those who enjoy science fiction films, this one ranks as a great one.
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