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Summary: BOOO
Review: HORRIBLE. UGH. Why would anyone waste money on such a BAD movie??
HORRIBLE.
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Summary: Entertaining? Certainly ! / Perfect? Nope !
Review: This is a great sci-fi action movie - no doubt about it. Tom Cruise gives a much better performance than in his last few outings, and the supporting cast definitely do just that - give excellent support. The special effects alone are worth the price of the movie, especially the cars, gadgets and computer technology.The movie is set in the future, in a world where your unique retina scan is used to invade your privacy at every opportunity. A pilot project is in place to catch and incarcerate would-be killers before they kill their victims, but this depends on a trio of "precogs" gifted (or cursed) with the ability to foresee murders. Tom Cruise's character runs this project, and finds his world shattered when his name comes up as a murderer. From here the plot twists back and forth, while Cruise battles and outwits his own SWAT team, in an effort to prove his future innocence. He also has to battle his own demons, and in this battle he is on the losing end. The end is anticlimatic after sitting on the edge of your seat for 2 hours, but a happy ending it is indeed. This movie is well worth watching, but it doesn't take a precog to notice a few nit-picking bumps along the way: When you lose your keys, you change the locks right away, so unauthorised persons can't get into your house. In this high tech facility, the Captain is compromised, and nobody changes the security codes to nullify his access rights to the high security areas, allowing both he and his wife free access by way of a somewhat battered retina-in-a-baggy. The Captain sends somebody to jail, where the person has the worst experiences of his life. This same person later performs a highly technical although unsanitary operation on the Captain, and not only completes the task successfully, but assists him with feature altering medication that helps him to access the precogs. I missed the reasoning behind that one. As an advertising person, I fully appreciated the personalised advertising pitches. However, wouldn't it be a trifle noisy for these ads to reach out and touch everybody at the same time? Think of the chaos at rush hour - that would certainly cause a system overload. Ther are other small glitches, but who's counting? Forget the sensible approach, and sit back and enjoy the movie at face value.
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Summary: Great concept... poor execution!
Review: I wanted to like Minority Report. I really did. The high concept was a movie-goers dream... "Police officer is condemned by the same faultless crime prevention system he supports." The idea of Pre-Crime is excellent, well-thought out but still only expecting a modicum of suspension of disbelief. I want to see this movie for a quite a while and perhaps my expectations were a bit high. I wanted to see "Blade Runner" starring Tom Cruise and directed by Spielberg. Unfortunately, this movie falls far short.... To give the movie its due, I have to use SPOILERS so if you don't want to know, don't read on... Still there? Okay, Tom Cruise's character is going to commit a murder according to the PreCogs (psychics of sorts) but it's a premeditated murder, meaning that there is time to hunt him down. Great idea, except Cruise literally doesn't even know who this person is until less than four minutes before he shoots him. Colin Farrell is great in this picture and I wish there was more of him. Instead we have Tom Cruise and the loss of his son that he's been mourning. Which is fine; apparently no onscreen police officer has a happy home life. But when it comes time to discover who actually took Cruise's son, the ball is abruptly dropped and we're left hanging again. There are plot devices used and then abandoned, leaving us shocked and without answers. Cruise goes through a lengthy, uncomfortable scene in which he has his eyes replaced (gack!). And even though he put away the black market doctor for hideous crimes before, there's no repercussions now. (Hunh? Why not?) The problem Cruise was fighting was the eyescan technology that kept detecting him around the city, but when he actually gets back to Police Headquarters, he has to use his own original eyes (conveniently in a Ziploc baggy, but unfortunately he drops them and has to chase them down the hallway...) The whole concept left me cold. What was the point of that whole episode except to waste another 30 minutes? To top things off, the villain at the end had an excrutiatingly unclear motive as to why he'd go after Cruise's character. And while the PreCog division meets its unseemly demise at the end, there's no mention of the inevitable resumption of mass homicides. For a movie that could have said a lot about motives and ambitions and how they are used and abused, instead we get MagLev chase scenes, jet-packs and Tom Cruise chasing his eyeballs down the hall. Save your money and 2 hours and 20 minutes of your time.
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Summary: A Riveting Masterpiece
Review: Minority Report is by far the most potent, intelligent, and provocative sci-fi thriller I have ever seen. Tom Cruise stars in this riveting masterpiece, giving a vivid and realistic portrayal of his character, as do all the actors in their individual roles. The storyline is extremely well-developed, and the characters as well are well-developed and well-portrayed. And the chilling depiction of the far future is realistic as well. It is a mind-blowing action-packed masterpiece. The storyline concerns a six year-old unit of astounding technology headquartered in Washington DC which identifies the culprits of future murders. Thus, the officers of the Precrime Unit can detain killers before they commit their crimes.
When the chief of Precrime (Tom Cruise) is himself identified as a future murderer, he finds himself in a desperate race against time to find out whether or not he has been set up by a hacker. He must discover the truth behind his revealed future before he falls prey to the system he created. In my opinion, Minority Report exceeds most other films in the sci-fi genre. It is perfect in every way. Even the choreography is noticeably excellent. I strongly reccomend this film to anyone. You will not regret seeing it. 5 stars. Rated PG-13 for violence, brief language, some sexuality, and drug content.
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Summary: "This just isn't your week, is it?"
Review: I think this is one of the most faithful film adaptations of Philip K. Dick's work-- not that it's a literal transliteration of the novel, but it does conjure up a convincing image of Dick's alternate worlds. All those goofy little details of the billboards mentioning Cruise's character by name and the animated cereal boxes have a lot to do with Dick's satiric view of the media being incredibly intrusive (his novel UBIK is probably the ultimate example of that). I like the fact that the film gets into the moral issues involved in genetic experimentation, which is something many people want to sweep under the rug in the name of utility. This is NOT a Brave New World...
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Summary: Experimental Projects With Children of Heroin Addicts
Review: A futuristic film taking place around the year 2046[in which no crime has taken place for 6 years] in which a young woman (Agatha)who is a child of heroin addict and her mother Annie Lively are snatched from the living(the child because she saw visions of the future,is drugged,sealed in protective clothing,and is the catalyst to ignite the computers with "red balls(crimes of passion),brown balls(premeditated crime),the mother who after getting detoxified wanted her daughter back...Surprisingly the film reflects most of Steven Spielberg's uncommon plots(Philip K Francis's Minority Report")in a possibly believability.Due to the experiments many are incarcerated based on pictures which show them committing crimes,(and punished based on whether they were accused as red ball or brown ball)with the computers giving "time" similar to the TV series "1st Edition" for the "cops on Prevention of a Murder detail" to get to where the crime is to take place and to stop it from happening ..often having to kill the accused in the process(no trial needed since the computers showed them doing the crime)..The picture also showed the falacy of identity scanning (if it can be scanned ,it can be replaced) so that opticians can remove the original eyes,replace them with eyes from "the eye bank" and the "patient" then has two identities (in actor Tom Cruise(character John Atherton)'s case he and his exwife are able to use his original set of eyes to enter "security areas" that had been made off limits to him... It also showed an accused(Leo) being killed a minute after the timer had claimed he would be killed in that he really committed suicide..the movie has many scenarios and is best seen as a home video in which it can be viewed in 'shorts' similar to a tv drama series.It helps it to keep its momentum.
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Summary: Great movie, but needs to be watched at least twice...
Review: I saw this movie originally in the theatres. It was good, although the sound went out during the intial fight & chase scene. But a lot of stuff still didn't make sense to me, and I hate it when actors whisper so utterly low...I have decent hearing but I can't hear that in a crowded theater. I wanted to watch this again at home, with captions on to make sure I didn't miss any dialog. Which is what I would recommend to a lot of the poeple here who are saying that the plot isn't complete and explained...EVERYTHING IS EXPLAINED, WATCH THE MOVIE AGAIN, THIS TIME PAY CAREFUL ATTENTION. It's actually a very intricate plot, so it can be very easy to miss things.
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Summary: Good film, but the ending could have been better.
Review: The film realy takes off with its great beginning, and the plot runs on and on, with every character as convincing as the last. And a well put together crime caper movie. However, the story lags a little towards the end of it. The pre-end part with the leading characters son, was awsome, and the film was going great but didn't end that well. It seems that the film should have ended before it got carried away.
Other than the end however it is wonderful and origonal strait from the beginning.
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Summary: Good visual, intelligent action movie
Review: After the obnoxious MI 2, Tom Cruise decided to work with a much better director than Jon Woo!! Enter Mr. Steven Spielberg,the master. The movie is very good, fast paced and, more important, INTELLIGENT. It's not ultra-violent, much on teh contrary. It builds its momentum to a climax. I enjoyed it a lot.
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Summary: To confusing
Review: The plot was to confusing for its own good, and it wasn't exciting enough to get you held up into it. If you want to see it, watch it, you may enjoy it. If you just want a good movie to watch, I would suggest passing this.
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