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Summary: Precrime is Minority Report at its heights...
Review: What can i say about this movie that you have not read or know already. This can happen in our future and the world would be a safer place for me and you. I'm going to watch it again.. Recommended Highly. Watch it and enjoy!!!
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Summary: Speilberg is back on track!
Review: I am one of the many Speilberg fans that just really didn't like his 2001 movie, A.I. Artificial Intelligence. I thought the film was lame and idiotic, and it never held my interest. However, Minority Report has restored my faith in one of my favourite directors. The movie had an awesome style, just as all Speilberg movies do. I loved the art direction, which I believe is truly the best art direction of 2002. It had so much effect on the atmosphere of the film - especially the bluish tints everywhere. Very well done! Speilberg keeps the tension running through the movie like hot water - I was on the edge of my seat the whole way through! There are also some strong performances here. Tom Cruise displays surprising depth for his character, and you're rooting for him the whole way through. Colin Farrell is also very good even though his role isn't as meaty as Cruise's. Samantha Morton was the strongest performer here if you ask me, she makes a great crazy person, and like Cruise brings depth to her character so you ultimately care about what happens to her. The action scenes in this movie are awesome, as you've probably heard. The infamous jetpack scene rocks of course, but it could've done with an orchestral score of some sort. I loved the car-hopping scene as well (the climax to that scene is hilarious) and the very intense scene where Cruise attempts to escape the building. Overall, I just thought this movie was great. I found it hard to find any flaws. It had emotion, action, and a great story. I just loved the way this worked and the premise of finding the killer before the crime is really really cool and Speilberg's vision for the future is realised here more than ever. Don't miss it!
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Summary: Moral Questions
Review: Minority Report - This movie got a bad reputation, but its creativity and moral questions are what keep the movie interesting. pretty soon maybe we will all be wearing numbers so the government can track you!! Spielberg, although not the greatest director or movie maker, does a better job at dropping subtle kubrick style hints questioning the world we live in. Tom Cruise is a good actor and the others were good too but the moral questioning is the movie. I like it.
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Summary: Spielberg's take on the future misses the mark.....
Review: You would think a man with his imagination could make a movie set in the future which would look both beliveable and make the audience wonder in awe. But this movie is neither. As with AI, again Spielberg is dealing with story material that he is neither able to work with nor understand. It's dark, it's a weak novel that was turned into an even weaker film. Colin Farrell can not act, nor can Cruise (who has not made a good movie in nearly a decade) and again the CGI effects are a headage to look at. It's even further evidence that the decline of Spielberg as a film maker started with A.I. and was continued with this movie.
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Summary: could have been better
Review: This movie had a pretty cool idea. The actors were great. The only problem was that the script blew. It got too cheesy. It could have been better. It's worth renting, but not buying. Just my honest opinion.
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Summary: Interesting and Surprising
Review: This DVD is a treat with the special features. And not just that, "Minority Report" is actually quite an intelligent film, if you would ask me. Even if this is a sci-fi action flick, it actually does make us ask, "What if we could stop crime by preventing it by tapping into the psychic awareness?" While Tom Cruise is not my favorite actor, he does look good in the film, that's all. It's Colin Farrel who makes this film brilliant. And the actress who plays the female pre-cog (the psychic) has lots of brilliant moments in this film. A good film, but not one that would become a classic in years to come.
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Summary: WOW!
Review: Other than the incomparable Schindler's List (which is my second favourite film of all-time) and perhaps the wonderful entertainment Raiders of the Lost Ark, I think that this is Steven Spielberg's greatest film. And that's saying something. To be sure, it is the best film I have seen in 2002. As a movie lover, I love films that almost get me drunk on the pure excitement of watching it. This is such a film. I saw it in theaters and bought it on DVD because everytime I watch it, I can look at it through a new angle. If you watch it simply to be dazzled by the vision of the future, it's a masterpiece. If you watch it to be enveloped in a Hitchcockian murder mystery, it's a masterpiece. And as a combination of the two, it forges it's own special genre...like Blade Runner meets North by Northwest. Also, there is an element of strong social commentary about the direction that America (and other countries, to be fair) is heading in with its "protection" of national interests. We may still be alive, but will we be free? There is an undeniable horror to two images in the movie: the one in which the halo is about to be put on the man's head at the beginning of the film (the guy who was about to kill his wife) and the one in which Anderton sees himself committing a crime. How could you talk your way out of it? "But...I haven't done anything!". "Yes, but you will..." There are so many memorable images and moments: I haven't even mentioned the first great chase sequence, the Spyder sequence (which was weird but confusing) or the oddly romantic "Moon River" chase sequence in the mall. These are all moments that transcend any genre and get at the heart of why we go to the movies in the first place. The performances would seem to be irrelevant in a sci-fi movie, but it is typical of Spielberg that they are first-rate. Tom Cruise really made me care about his character, even the corny missing son bit seemed genuine rather than forced on to forge his character. And the supporting performances are unforgettable: Samantha Morton is brilliant as a chilling Pre-Cog, Colin Farrell as the oily Witwer, Max von Sydow as the seemingly paternal head of Pre-Crime. And the characters Anderton meets along the way: the always creepy Peter Stormare, Lois Smith and Tim Blake Nelson add color and humor to the story. I think this is a great film...what more needs to be said? When I first saw the film, I thought it was a masterpiece, although I thought the ending was flawed. Now, even the ending works for me. It's still a little bit overexpository (the genius of the crime is better revealed slyly and subtly...but I guess Spielberg wanted to make sure the audience wasn't confused). However, the ending contains genuine drama and many different shots that would have made Hitchcock proud. So even though it's the worst part of the film, it's still not bad. But yes, as I said, this is a masterpiece. If you haven't seen it, it's too bad you missed it in theaters (it really is a great moviegoing experience) but get it on DVD or VHS. You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Complex, but pretty good
Review: If you're looking for another Blade Runner or A.I., you won't find it here. This film is complicated, but very well done. It has many chilling scenes, and a few exciting ones, but overall it is thought-provoking and wonderfully sytlish. The DVD is well-conceived, too.
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Summary: No Crime And Punishment
Review: Minority Report Washington DC 2054 A special "PreCrime" police unit no longer has to solve crimes. A battery farm of humans ("precogs") who dream of future murders identify perpetrators BEFORE they commit the crime. The skill the police have to use is to identify the locations and people in the visions and get there before the crime takes place, whereupon the would be perp is promptly arrested and incarcerated for the crime they haven't yet had time to complete. The program based only in Washington has become popular enough to go National. Outside political forces are taking an interest and looking for flaws in the system. Lead PreCrime cop John Anderton (Tom Cruise) is your typical troubled cop, he lives in a messy apartment, has certain habits that would curtail his pension and has major family issues. He is estranged from his wife, his son disappeared some six years earlier. His superiors are after his badge. Whilst reviewing the latest mureder visions his life takes a more complicated turn when they show John Anderton himself committing the murder... He hears of "Minority Reports", precog visions that could contradict the ones for which he is being pursued. To get to it and the truth Anderton must break into his old workplace. Anderton has to escape arrest by his colleagues and, like many a hapless fugitive before him, clear his name... ---------------------------------------- Spielberg and Cruise, almost as big a box office come on as Cruise and the Mission Impossible theme music a few years ago... To me, though, the bonus is the above two PLUS that Minority Report is derived from a short story from quirky SF author Philip K. Dick (Bladerunner). Movie cat-nip. I'm there. The "yeah, right" plot is explained as painlessly as possible and one is quite happy to suspend disbelief. The detail is the beauty, like another Philip K. Dick project, "Total Recall" the minutae of life in 2054 is happily paraded before us, generally in a very subtle manner. Product placement is another matter and we are belaboured with it, but somehow it has a believable absurdity, the joke is on the advertiser, as billboards identify you by retinal scan and begin to pitch to you personally. This could well be the future of America, and don't be too smug, UK, you're going that way too. The action scenes are eye popping with jet pack powered police units whizzing merrily in pursuit of escapees dangling from gravity defying vehicles on vertical interstates. The plot? Well you've seen it before as "The Fugitive", but the end game defies one's expectations in some delightfully twisty ways. Those cop cliches are used to the benefit of the plot, although I think the villain is exactly who you'd expect it to be from the outset, despite those herrings that are red in colour. Another bonus, this is a surprisingly funny film from Spielberg, with a sense of humour reminiscent of Total Recall and Fifth Element. Peter Stormare relishes every second as a snotty back street eyeball identity fraudster that crosses paths with Cruise in one squirm inducing sequence. Dubliner Colin Farrell earns the acting plaudits as the cop after Anderton's badge and a brief eye catching turn by Lois Smith as a deranged geneticist. Alas, everyone else is just background noise really. Poor Jessica Harper doesn't even get a line of dialogue. Cinematography by Spielberg regular Janusz Kaminski is a little grainy, deliberately to hide the seams on the plethora of visual effects? Or just a style? Make your own mind up. And count 'em eleven special effects companies contributing to the seamless look of the thing. So ultimately, action, technology, humour and even a little mind food too.
No Bladerunner, I'm afraid, but this is the best blockbuster sci-fi to turn up since, well, Bladerunner.
Go see on the big screen with an audience.
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Summary: Awesome, one of Tom Cruise's best ever
Review: Forget MI2, this is the Cruise movie you want to see. It's long, but the story gets deeper and deeper as you go right up to a surprise ending. My only complaint is this is like the millionth movie in the last year with Colin Farrell. Enough is enough with him, he's not that good of an actor but he's been in WAY WAY WAY to many movies lately. Anyway, back to minority report. Very cool special effects. Great story. You won't be dissapointed. Everyone runs!
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