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Summary: Excellent Movie
Review: This movie is excellent. Everything about it is done well from Steven Spielberg's innovative and colorful directing, to the special effects which propel the story, and a plot that seems in touch with the times, when paranoia takes control and takes away our privacy.
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Summary: FAST PACED!!
Review: MINORITY REPORT is a fast-paced action film that uses awesome special effects. It includes some of the most creative action scenes like the highway car chase scene, the opening scenes in which the team races for time to stop a brutal murder, and many others. Not only does it have creative action scenes, but it also has one of the most original storylines ever written. The way the film is directed by the genius of Steven Speilberg, you feel as if you yourself are apart of the story and you yourself are on the run with John Anderton. The film is heart-pounding, and is carried along with awesome action scenes. But the film is not just about mindless action scenes...the storyline is just as important and original, and the audience is just as involved with the story as they are with the pulse pounding action...I guess that it's just the perfect combination. That along with lots of heart. You are able to watch John Anderton launch through a depression due to the fact that he misses his family. His wife divorced him shortly after their son went missing years before the story takes place. You see that John is such a great cop because he tries to stop tragedy...as a way to stop different versions of his sons abduction. You will find that the journey that he embarks on is a journey of finding the truth. The suspense keeps you on the edge of your seat when unpredictable twists and turns are revealed left and right...but it is not too many twists or turns, but just the right amount. When you slowly piece together the puzzle, this leads to an unforgettable conclusion of a film that is surely a contemporary classic. One of the reasons that the film is so great is not just Steven Speilberg's original directing, but also the fact that the performances of the ensemble cast are so believable, which makes for one of the greatest film ever made. MINORITY REPORT is sure to please you if you like suspense, action, drama, and eye candy.
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Summary: Big Plot Hole
Review: How did Max Von Sydow plant the vision of Tom Cruise's future in the mind of the precog? Was that ever explained? This seems like a glaring omission to me.
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Summary: A Futuristic look at Crime-- Ben N. at the movies
Review: Steven Speilberg has put yet another title worth taking a look at not only does this film star Tom Cruise but it also stars rising star Colin farrell who does a great performance as a rival who is trying to figure out how (Pre-Crime) works along with this film goes the un-predictable plot with a sense of no other Tom Cruise is frammed and is looked into the future of killing someone that is where the chase begins Tom Cruise will have to do everything from changeing his eyes to out-smarting the pre-crime units every turn could be his last and thats what makes this movie a blast 4-Stars
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Summary: A Great Movie!!!
Review: Minority Report is one of those movies that comes once in a while. Steven Spielberg proves again with this movie that he is truly the king of movie-making. Minority Report is one of Spielberg's greatest movie. He tells this story quite complex that take place in the year 2054 with great action, dialogue and storyline. Tom Cruise offers his second-best performance in career after "Jerry Maguire". Some people have said that Minority Report is hard to understand. Of course, for someone with a I.Q. less than 90, this can be a challenge to understand this movie, but for others, you'll have one of the greatest time watching a Spielberg film. Along with "Catch Me If You Can", Spielberg makes the year 2002, a wonderful year with the release of two of his greatest work in a long time. The DVD has some cool extras with the making-of and interviews with the cast and crew. Although this movie is very different from 2001's A.I.Artificial Intelligence, it keeps that same science-fiction glow. I highly recommend Minority Report for anyone who wants to see a good movie.
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Summary: A gripping upgrade to an ancient warning
Review: In the theater, the film had such a busy surface I wasn't sure it would reward closer scrutiny, until I bought it -- and the parallels to an ancient warning jumped off the screen. Other reviewers have taken issue with its shortcomings as "hard science fiction" -- which I won't defend, except to relate something more profound going on. At a time when many Americans have forgotten Patrick Henry, and are willing to trade privacy, freedom, and due process for assurances of safety, Minority Report updates the grim insight of Sophocles in "Oedipus Rex": seeing the future can be a ruinous curse. This story of a prince who unknowingly slew the father who exiled him (after a prophecy that he would), married his mother, and put out his eyes with his mother's brooches when he learned what he'd done, is symbolically re-enacted in the opening pre-crime: the predicted killer is a desperate, pathetic man whose adulterous wife has made his son into his successor with the same clothes and hairstyle; the kid memorizes a speech by Abraham Lincoln (who, like Oedipus, presided over a divided, despairing country) while poking holes in the eyes of a Lincoln mask with the scissors, which will be the murder weapon. The perp is led away in a sort of induced oblivion, like Oedipus being led blind from his kingdom. But Tom Cruise will be Oedipus; his father figure Max von Sydow abets his escape from his own police agency but is actually plotting his ruin, replaying the role of Oedipus' father king. The prophecy of Tom committing murder comes from the androgynous Samantha Morton, who is effectively blind to her environment (the opening shot is a zoom-back from her pupil). The prophecy of Oedipus murdering his father came from a blind prophet -- who had lived part of his life as a female. Lois Smith is Tom's mother figure, who tells him she and von Sydow considered themselves "the mother and father of pre-crime." She doesn't sleep with Tom but does kiss him in a well-timed gag on Tom's sex appeal. She also tells him that everything he does to avert his predicted crime will only bring it about -- the same trap prophesied for Oedipus and his father. Because retinas identify future citizens, there's a black market in eyeballs and drug dealers are eyeless. When after the prediction of his own crime Tom arranges to have his incriminating eyeballs changed out, he's asked why he wants to keep them; he means to re-enter his police station, but his facetious reply, "Because my mother gave them to me," recalls Oedipus putting out his eyes with his mother's brooches. At the end, Tom discovers von Sydow's plot against him, intended to assure the success and expansion of the pre-crime program, and implicates him in the murder of Agatha's mother, who had wanted her daughter back after having given her up. The film is not an airtight science fiction yarn, but is a resonant drama of human yearning against our limits: the older man who can end all murders, if only he can get away with committing one; the younger man who can redeem himself either by proving his agency prevents murder, or by murdering the man he takes for his own son's killer -- a classically neat opposition of humanity's strongest moral drives, agonizingly resolved in Tom's decision to simply arrest the man. The story is densely-woven but fastpaced, the dialogue good, often literate, with no wasted lines. Spielberg leaves behind his Child Within, except in the cop-out (noted in other reviews) of Tom shrugging at the dehumanizing slavery of the precogs, and Samantha Morton not despising him for it. The effects are good, although we don't really need all the DVD extras, which depict a mutual-admiration society among the production team gushing over how great each other is. Many scenes crackle with tension, which is often broken by Hitchcock-style anti-cliche' surprises (for reference, see how by using a blind man, circus freaks and a carful of spies singing "Tonight We Love", Hitch avoided in "Saboteur" what were already spy-movie cliche's by 1943. In fact, "Saboteur" has many parallels with "Minority Report"). The cast is excellent, although poor Jessica Harper has no dialogue. There are several near-brilliant scenes: the Lois Smith encounter; the sleazy eye-doctor; the tenement raid, which is both funny and deeply creepy, and ends with a grinning cop delighted to break for pizza. And there's Tom's clever selection of Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony" while he studies murders that will be unconsummated.
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Summary: The Cranky Reviewer is tasteless
Review: ...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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Summary: Minority Report? Thats my Favorite Movie!
Review: Steven Spielbergs most recent work is simply, utterly, AMAZING. This movie will have you on the edge of your seat from first scene to last. I thought al of the effects were well done, the story well written, and, the acting was PHENOMENAL, one of Tom Cruise's best role in a while. In a nutshell this movie is about a crime unit devising a "machine" that can guide them an show them crimes before they are commited in order to prevent them and arrest the guilty before a crime has been commited. The "before the crime was commited" part is the catch. Inevitably, and somewhat predictably, Tom Cruise comes up as a killer of a man that he doesnt know existed and is hunted by Colin Farrel as he tries to discover who and whyhe is going to kill this man. In traditional fashion, Tom winds up killing the man, and the muder is caused by events that Tom made happen to try to PREVENT himself from killing. Don't worry that doesn't really give away anything. I found this movie to be rather dark, and the overall setting to be similar to the movie "Dark City", another excellent film. There are even similarities between Toms flashbacks to the flashback to "Sunset Beach" of Dark City. Parts of Minority report were rather gruesome, but if that does't botheryou then this movie is incredile. It plays out as almost a sci-fi mystery and works very well. Supeb acting doesnt hurt either. You maywant to watch this movie several tims in order to take everything in, but its definetely worth at least to see once. The movie is rather long but it doesnt feel that way because you are completely engrossed in it ever second.
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Summary: A Worthy Companion to "Blade Runner"
Review: Take a look above and you'll find that a lot of people recommend Blade Runner in addition to this movie. That's no mistake, and no coincidence. Okay, while "Blade Runner" has and most likely always will be the best film adaptation of a Philip K Dick story, "Minority Report" is a close second. There's no 4 1/2 stars rating, so I'll give it a 5. What you get here is a very timely tale given today's society. While we are no longer afraid of technology in itself (robots destroying humanity is getting a little over-used as a theme) we are afraid of what others will do with that technology. In a time where insurance companies are selling policies to cover identity theft, what could be more topical than a movie that explores that theme in addition to others? We have a technologic system that is essentially perfect to the opinion of its supporters, but then we have one supporter (Cruise, as Chief Anderton) who is then the victim of this "perfect" system. His dogmatic shift from belief to disbelief is a crisis of faith and while technology seems to pervade this tale spirituality does as well. It's confusing I know. But the imagery is good, the writting is good, the acting is well done, and the story flows evenly through the two hours. Get this movie and stare in wonderment at a universe so meticulously created that I still find new things I missed every time I watch it.
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Summary: VERY PLEASANTLY SURPRISED!
Review: I won't go into a whole review of the movie because so many others have done it - and very ably. I will say this though. I don't like Tom Cruise generally, and Spielberg's "AI" was SO disappointing to me that I thought this would be more of the same. What a shock! I REALLY liked this movie. I actually thought it deserved 4.5 stars not 5, but I couldn't bring myself to give it 4 stars, because it really is better than a 4. You won't be disappointed if you buy it. Good story, good editing, a kind of "it-could-happen" type movie. All I can say is ... bring on the popcorn!
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