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Best Film of 2002
There are very few movies out there that can make you smile. I'm not just talking about happy go lucky movies, but movies that rivet you with something magical that no other movie contains. The Star Wars trilogy did this, The Matrix did this...Minority Report does this.

John Anderton (Tom Cruise) is a police officer that works for a futuristic unit called Precrime. This division uses three individuals called the Precogs that can see the future to stop murders before they happen. Cruise firmly believes in the ability of the Precogs, as well as their accuracy, yet is fed a taste of his own medicine when the Precogs predict a murder that he, himself, will commit. As a morality tale and as far as the message behind the whole movie was concerned, I was unimpressed, but this was taken away from the sheer magic of the movie's visual effects and the rich individual stories of the characters.

Every element of this movie is spectacular. There are fine performances from Tom Cruise and Colin Farrell, the special effects are some of the best since The Matrix, the story is spectacular and it holds your attention for the duration. You feel caught up in the story, a part of it, which is why you can't turn away, wanting to see what will happen next.

I predict you are running out the door right now to buy this...make me right.

Spielberg Strikes Again!
One can never underestimate director Steven Spielberg's ability to reinvent himself as a filmmaker. MINORITY REPORT is just another example of this.

Set in Washington D.C. circa 2053, MINORITY REPORT is based ona 1956 short story by Philip K. Dick, whose works provided the source material for the ultra-violent 1990 smash TOTAL RECALL and Ridley Scott's 1982 cult masterpiece BLADE RUNNER. Tom Cruise stars as the top cop of an elite anti-crime police unit called Pre-Crime, which has the ability, by way of three pre-cognitive beings, to see crimes of the future and stop not only the crimes but to stop the perpetrators from committing those crimes to begin with.

But when a national referendum on Pre-Crime takes shape, an unscrupulous underling (Colin Farrell) to the Attorney General puts a flaw into the system intended to lead to Pre-Crime's own undoing. That flaw is a vision of Cruise himself committing murder against a man he doesn't even know and has never met. Cruise becomes a man on the run, and the result is a hair-raising series of suspense-laden twists and turns that never bores, despite the fact that the film is two hours and fifteen minutes long.

Under Spielberg's always inventive direction, Cruise is sharp as the beleagured cop trying to get out of his most complicated fix. Samantha Morton is also quite good as the "pre-cog" known as Agatha, and the legendary Max von Sydow scores as Cruise's boss and mentor who has a stake in seeing Pre-Crime remain perfect. A film that deftly puts elements of the crime and psychological thriller film genres into its futuristic science fiction brew, MINORITY REPORT is a film that, like Spielberg's previous film A.I., may very well require more than one viewing; it certainly is not a leave-your-brains-at-the-door film. But it is well worth seeing!

The Cranky Reviewer is tasteless
...Anyway now ... I'll start telling why this movie rules! Set in the chillingly possible future of 2054, Steven Spielberg's Minority Report is arguably the most intelligently provocative sci-fi thriller since Blade Runner. Spielberg's gritty vision was freely adapted from a story by Philip K. Dick, with its central premise of "Precrime" law enforcement, totally reliant on three isolated human "precogs" capable of envisioning murders before they're committed. As Precrime's confident captain, Tom Cruise preempts these killings like a true action hero, only to run for his life when he is himself implicated in one of the precogs' visions. Inspired by the brainstorming of expert futurists, Spielberg packs this paranoid chase with potential conspirators domestic tragedy, and a heartbreaking precog pawn, while Cruise's performance gains depth and substance with each passing scene. This is a movie not to pass up. See it today. THUMBS WAY UP!!!

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