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Summary: A defining example of a fine American film
Review: The film opens 52 years from now in Washington, D.C. The world is much like it is today, with more people and more technological ways to solve crimes and more technological ways to commit crimes and to evade detection.The future follows the future trend where the liberties our founding fathers fought for are tossed out the window for the ultimate "ends justify the means" way of catching crime... using pre-cogs, three unfortunate souls who happen to have an uncanny knack for seeing a murder before it occurs. By tapping into the pre-cogs' brainwaves, detectives and future crime cops can locate the place a murder will occur and stop it before it happens. Even without the sci-fi elements, the classics from good movies are evident... love, loss, betrayal, loyalty, duty, angst and a pinch of humor. There's a touch of everything - drug use, violence, macabre, who-dunnits, etc. The sci-fi elements are subtle in many ways... eye candy (if you've seen this, pardon the pun) is not just thrown at the viewer to dull the senses or to distract the viewer from the true quality of the film. The world of the near future is much like it is today, just a bit more gadgetry and a little less freedom. Iris-scanners are EVERYWHERE, calling people by name in shopping malls, enticing them to buy, buy, buy. With the obvious advances in medical technology, there are still those who are mentally ill, still those who kidnap and molest children, still those who deal and do drugs, still those who are willing to murder, even though they know they will probably get caught. In a world where guns have been banished, people are still murdered by ye-olde methods... drowning, stabbing, strangulation, etc. The Metropolis-like scenes with modern cars that can quickly travel in any direction, even on a 90 degree highway, are a definite tribute to the classic films that Spielberg holds dear. Some scenes are predictable, some are not. Sometimes just when you think you know what is going to happen, it's something else entirely. After seeing the film, you can't help but run dozens of "what if" questions through your mind. The film is an experience - you feel it, and you sympathize with the characters and you even care what happens to them after the film is over. This may be Tom Cruise's finest performance and the entire cast deserves a standing ovation. Like a good book, the characters stay in your head and you tend to recount different experiences and relate to characters in a way that is all too rare in the majority of movies that get cranked out of Hollywood each year. Of the films I've seen this year, this is the only one in my Oscar pile this year. I'm already anticipating the port to DVD and behind the scenes footage, etc.
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Summary: My report
Review: First of all I would like to say this movie was very exciting, yet very interesting. I recommend this movie to anyone that enjoys Tom Cruise's acting or likes action movies. In 2054 Precrime Law Enforcement will stop crime before it occurs, John Anderton (played by Cruise) is one of the detectives at Preccrime until he finds that now he is in one of the crimes that is going to take place. He now is on the run from the very agency where he works making him go against what he believes in. In the end " Minority Report" proves one of the years best movies.
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Summary: Well done, but strange
Review: Minority Report was well done and tom Cruise delivers an excellent performance as John. The movie is strange like Tom's last film (Vanilla Sky) but not as complicated and hard to follow. In the movie Tom has designed a system to predict future murders when suddenly the system reveals tom as the murderer of a man. From here Tom runs and learns the truth. The movie is very futuristic and the technology is excellent in the film. I thought minority report was a good movie and is worth seeing.
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Summary: The Spielberg/Cruise dream work?
Review: ...the movie is less than A-1 movie material. Even if you took out Tom Cruise as the lead, and Steven Spielberg as its director, you'd be stuck with a movie that doesn't know if it wants to be an eye-popping (pun intended, sorry!) sci-fi thrill ride, or a weepy, moralizing melodrama. The problem though is MINORITY REPORT suffers from the weight of having to carry both Spielberg's desire to deliver another one of his preachy, good-vs-evil Saturday afternoon serials, and Cruise promoting yet another haircut and the same lack of credibility in substantial dramatic roles. While he can play action and adventure, and even comedy (witness his fine performance in Jerry Maguire), Cruise doesn't have the goods to mimic Harrison Ford's masterly performance in Blade Runner, to which one must make comparisons. Being that MINORITY and BLADE are both taken from Philip K. Dick's short stories, perhaps Hollywood should've done the "smart" thing by having Ridley Scott helm MINORITY REPORT. Spielberg's vision of the future is 20 minutes too long, those last minutes diluting the impact of what should've been the end of the film. Being a Spielberg epic-o-rama, we're subjected to a drawn-out epilogue, just to make sure we get his point that the good guys always win. Talk about the dumbing down of American film! Having said all this, there are some worthwhile elements to be enjoyed. The production design and photography, as well as the special effects, are all captivating and flawless. Colin Farrell and Tom Cruise should've switched roles in the film, as Colin Farrell didn't overplay his character the way Cruise does here. Cruise needs to turn down the adrenaline a few notches--this isn't the Mission Impossible series! There are worse ways to spend [money] this summer. However, this isn't Spielberg's most mature film effort. That would go to Schindler's List, which is more than just a film: It was appropriately a remembrance as well. Too bad Spielberg put off directing Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha---that will be Spielberg's next mature work after Schindler.
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Summary: The Ending
Review: ***** MAJOR SPOILER ***** I, like alot of people I know who have seen this film, was disappointed with the ending. However, on reading several comments on imdb.com, I realise that I interpreted the ending all wrong and while I thought it was contrived and happy, it wasn't. The last 15 minutes is not all that it seems - see it again or at the very least try and remember (or find out some other way ;)) what the warden (Gideon) is saying as he is imprisoning John, it puts a different slant on things.
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Summary: Spielberg is back in top form - fantastic...
Review: What a comeback for Spielberg! Wow! I really enjoyed Minority Report - it was the best movie I have seen in the commercial theaters this year by far. In Minority Report, Spielberg finally acheives the perfect balance between thought-provoking material and suspense and action. Essentially, he created a synthesis between the style of A.I. (which tries to be thought-provoking but is too long and boring) and of Indiana Jones (which is pure entertainment). AND IT WORKS - this is both an interesting and meaningful movie and an action packed thriller. Essentially, Minority Report deals with a near future in which PreCrime, a form of police that relies on the PreCogs to predict future murders and stop them, is being tested for national implemenation in Washington DC. Believed to be perfect, the PreCrime system allows police to arrest people for murders before they occur. More specifically, in Minority Report, John Anderton (Tom Cruise, in a very good performance), a PreCrime cop, is forced to run when it is predicted that he will commit a murder. There is only one problem - he has never heard of the man he is supposedly going to kill. To say any more would be to give too much away... Still, I can say one thing for sure: Spielberg uses the intricate plot to not only give the audience a great thrill ride, complete with fantastic special effects and a cool vision of a future world - but also to raise questions about the validity of predetermination and the price of security. So, I don't know how else to recommend this - go see it soon - because this movie is both entertaining, original, and thought-provoking (a rare combination in Hollywood these days)!
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Summary: Great movie, tired of Tom playing Tom
Review: I loved this movie's special effects but I get so tired of Tom Cruise playing Tom Cruise (I kind of feel the same way about Harrison Ford too--at least Tommy Lee Jones can swing between drama and comedy). Any of a dozen actors could have played this part, and maybe even given a break to some talented up and coming actors for a change--could have been big break for them. Well anyway, one part I enjoyed was seeing the future of advertising (I won't spoil it for those who haven't seen it, but let's just say, for those who think they have found every way they can reach us to encourage us to buy, they haven't). I think this method could very well be done in the not too distant future. Spooky. I liked the ending myself, I don't find Spielberg's moralizing offensive. The future of incarceration was also very interesting too. Again, won't spoil it, but I could see this being done too.Worth seeing.
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Summary: Another Spielberg masterpiece
Review: Minority Report sounds great, looks great, and is great. I had no idea that there could be a movie that good. It's chilling and suspensful. There were 3 times when I jumped out of my seat. I was shocked at the end and shocked after the movie was over. I will not give anything away. This is not only the best futuristic cop movie ever it is also the greatest Sci-Fi film ever. Blade Runner was sure impressine for 1981 and Minority Report is very impressive for 2002. Another thing about the film is that it takes place in our nations capital Wasinton D.C. All other futuristic films are in Los Angeles or New York. Minority Report is another Spielberg classic. Bottom Line: A
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Summary: Drink Pepsi, dress in GAP and live the future
Review: Finally I gave into al the hype and actually went to watch Minority Report. The question I'm left with now that I have seen it is: what was all the hype about?
Although I have to admit that some of the computer generated special effects were impressive the acting lacked any kind of substance.
However, what annoyed me the most was the incredible amount of product placement throughout the movie. Wasn't Mr. Spielberg sure if he would make enough money at the box office that he had to advertise Aquafina, Pepsi, Gap, Lexus, and Nokia throughout the movie?
Overall I spent two and a half hours in the movie during which I asked myself more than once if all the people that walked around in the movie theater during the showing of the movie, just as bored as I was? The bottom line is, good special effects for free and a few interesting scenes like the chase in the car factory, other than that I can watch commercials at home on my TV for free.
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Summary: HEY SPEILBERG - I WANT MY MONEY & 2.5 HOURS BACK
Review: I'll admit, the first 10 -15 minutes of this movie were riveting - but then it was all down hill from there. I found myself looking at my watch every 10 mintues waiting for the ridiculously long, stupid movie to end. I've never walked out of a film before, but my friends and I were seriously considering doing just that. The plot had more holes than a block of swiss cheese. Visually it was a mess, some scenes were very technical and futuristic, and some scenes were set on a farm in the Chesapeake Bay. My friend that had been holding out hope through the first half that the movie would get better finally gave up when on the lawn of a woman who's son had been missing for over 6 years, there was a rusted out tricycle. Give me a break! Avoid this movie at all costs. We even told people in line as we left to go see something else.
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