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Summary: Spielberg's best since A.I.
Review: I liked the visuals of the film. I liked how they managed to use simple glass shields and simply pull up what they want. Using mechanical gloves to pull up what they wnat from glass windows is intiuging as the whole precrime idea in the movie. I liked the pumped up action scenes and visuals it has. The plot gets somewhat hazy but has more than enough visuals and strong acting by its lead characters to compensate. I think thsi is one of Tom Cruise's best roles and one of Spielberg's best films. And car fans like me will love the futuristic cars and highways in the movie especially the lexus that Cruise drives.
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Summary: Precrime may not be too perfect!
Review: Minority Report is a futurist "Blade Runner" type movie with the excellent storytelling by Spielberg! Tom Cruise is perfect and the movie is very clever ,but It does get tiring by the end and runs out of juice too soon. Anyways its a great summer movie and keep up the good work Steven!
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Summary: The book was better (of course)
Review: As Sci-fi movies go, this is a very good one. As something that makes sense, even with the requisite willing suspension of disbelief, give it a pass. There was a logical consistency within the story by Phillip K. Dick that is blown when Spielberg felt compelled to completely alter the foundation for his movie -- for example, the whole meaning of a "minority report" and whether there was one or not is a pretty major overhaul of the theme that ruined the ending of the movie.
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Summary: not the best, but good enough for me...
Review: this movie started off really really boring, then it started to get really really good. i can't tell you too much of the story, cuz its one of those movies where if you tell one part, the whole thing is revealed, and its not a good thing when someone spoils it. this is shown in the future, and people can catch a guy even before he commits a crime. pretty cool. the ending is a real shocker. all in all, this is a very cool movie to watch. it will keep you at the edge of your seat, and when its over, you'll beg for more!!!
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Summary: Could have been far better
Review: I came into the theatre with high expectations for this film, and why not? With a cast including tom cruise, and colin farrell and with the legendary stephen spielberg at the helm there's more than ample reason to expect greatness. And whats here is good, but it could have been far better, and it is for this I give it three stars.
The opening sequence does exactly what it should, it draws you into the movie, introduces some of the main characters, and in this case actually makes you think. The whole precrime aspect, in fact, should make you think. Is it ethical, to arrest a man, who has just found out that his wife has been lieing and cheating on him, simply because according to the pre-cogs (three people damaged by drugs that can see the future) he will murder her? Even though, at the moment he is arrested, he has commited absolutely no crime? In one of the best lines of dialouge, tom cruise's character rolls a ball along a table. When colin farrell's character catches the ball before it falls, cruise asks him, "Why'd you catch that ball?"
"Because it was going to fall."
"Ahh, so just because it didn't happen, doesn't mean it wasn't going to."
I could spend a while exploring this aspect of the movie, but I won't. The script does address this issue, but not quite as in-depth as I may have liked it to.
Cruise and Farrell both give good, solid performances, but as in any movie there are some scenes that feel forced, fake almost, such as the scene where cruise escapes using a peer's jetpack.
The climax of the movie (i will reveal none of it) was beautiful, and you really feel a sense of inevitablilty leading up to it, almost, as if there's no escaping it. If the movie had ended here, as it should have (with some possible talk of the implications of cruise's actions), with that close up of cruise's face (you'll know of which one I speak when you watch it) i would have given the film at least four stars. But it COMPLETELY WRECKS what was good about it when it draws on for another half an hour in order to give the audience an obligatory happy ending. I walked out shaking my head at the fact that a great movie had been turned into a mediocre one, because some exec decided that the "moviegoing population" couldn't deal with an unhappy ending, or it would make them feel too uncomfortable. At any rate, you probably will enjoy this movie, and it's definetly worth watching at least once, but know that it could have been far better.Recommended
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Summary: One of Spielberg's best!
Review: I saw Minority Report a few months ago and I thought it was great! Though a bit disturbing at some points, I thought that overall, this was a great movie! Great plot and good acting. Very cool special effects! The only bad thing was that it was a really long movie. It was 3 hours! The end was stalled, but everything had to take place for the "big finally".
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Summary: Good movie but time period is whack.
Review: I saw the movie and I loved it. It has fantastic special effects. The plot was really good where 3 people who can envision the near future (precogs) and see when a murder is going to occur are kept isolated and connected to computers, the computers monitor the precogs' visions of murders before they actually happen. The police then can prevent the murders from occuring by arriving on the scene ahead of the crime. (Precrime law enforcement units) The movie is set in the year 2054. This is the only down part of the plot because I find it hard to accept that by the year 2054 all major highways will have been converted to roads that cars are programmed to ride on without the need for anyone to steer the vehicles. The highways in the movie appeared to have tracks built into them where cars whizzed along at high speeds. The highways were built up and down the side of skyscrapers and cars moved up and over and down the other side of skyscrapers. I guess some kind of anti-gravity device was built into the cars (lexus) to keep them from falling off the side of the skyscraper roads. Anyway, this kind of technology and the enormous undertaking of converting the pre-existing highways to electronic highways is just not feasible in the next 52 years. Maybe 152 years, it's anybody's guess.
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Summary: 4 Words and a Sentence
Review: Engrossing. Intelligent. Thrilling. Thought-provoking.
Best sci-fi movie since the Matrix.
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Summary: Lighten up and enjoy!
Review: I've been amused in reading the pseudo intellectual reviews about the so-called "plot holes". Here's a suggestion, don't expose your inability to analyze or understand the movie or genre. Take the movie for what it is ---a futuristic Sci-Fi murder mystery. Without ticking off each "plot hole" that was listed, I can tell you that each is explainable if you looked a little deeper, except maybe the merry-go-round question. Here's an inconsistency you may have missed(oh my gosh---does this then make it a BAD movie?---NOT), early in the movie while working at his high tech precrime desk, Anderton's right hand reveals scabs on his second and third knuckles(I guess he was hitting the bag late the night before), then in a scene seconds later those same knuckles have unblemished skin. Bottom line: While not the best movie I've seen in my life, it was entertaining and worth the price of admission.
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Summary: Great - but not PG13
Review: I'll start with a word to the parents - even my 15 year old agreed this should have been rated "R". Very graphic, slow motion murder scenes. OK - even if the scenes hadn't really happened yet it was still disturbing to watch for the younger set. Other than that - for the most part, great pace and effects. Good plot. It was an interesting role for Tom Cruise to play - away from his slick Mission Impossible character. A few sentimental scenes (Spielberg's trademark) are ok - but overall - highly recommended. Great entertainment, great ending but a bit of a downer due to subject matter and mood of the film - aka Blade Runner.
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