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Summary: Everybody runs into absurdity!
Review: I can't compare this movie to "Blade Runner", it would be unfair. Scott and Spielberg are two fundamentally different people. However, Scott has more of a handle on the darker side of life that fits better on Phillip k. Dick stories. But I applaud Speilberg's effort and for awhile, the movie reaches wonderful moments. Then an ill advised ending is tacked on. I wonder if this was Speilberg's original intention or did he pander to other opinions. Somehow, I like to think he was forced to change the ending. Then I can keep my respect for him.The acting: There were too many characters in this film. Many of them inhabited by actors who are a bit better than Tom Cruise himself. Cruise is capable of better work but all the running and fighting did not allow him to build a more interesting character. There are only so many hours you can watch a handsome man looking frantic. Then the movie is absolutely stolen by Colin Farrell who plays Special Agent Witwer and Samantha Morton as Agatha. Colin Farrell in particular created a wonderfully, nasty, sleazy yet moral character in Witwer. He displayed the same sexual predator gleam when he looked at Anderton and then in his scenes with Anderton's wife. I wanted to know more about this character's private and professional life. The same could be said again with Samantha Morton's Agatha. She is so wonderfully mysterious. What was she aware of while she was drugged? Did she have other thoughts then future murders? She seemed to be a victim of sexual abuse by her handler, how did she deal with that? All of this opportunity is just thrown away. The design of the movie is wonderful. See it for the design, Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton. Turn it off when you see Cruise put too sleep. It will be a more satisfying experience.
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Summary: Pleasure to Watch
Review: After watching AI I was truly disappointed in the direction Stephen Spielberg. Minority Report was a relief. His time and effort for depicting the future with his weekend think tank with some of the great minds in many different areas made of a convincing movie. I love how computer enable directors to bring realistic dreams to the movie screen. The story is just as incredible. It reminds me of the old Twilight Zones or a great Alfred Hitchcock. The picture is great on this DVD. Using a type of desaturation a crisp blue formed. The special Features found on disc two are amazing. My biggest problem with many DVD's is the lack of cooperation by the director and cast. Here Stephen Spielberg takes his time to explain his vision along with his other constituents. This is a buy. You will not be disappointed. The man delivers again with a breath taking film.
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Summary: Movie O.K. DVD transfer is grainy
Review: While most people in the reviews have voiced their opinion of the plot of the movie. I would like to point out that this is one of the noisiest DVD titles I've seen.
While viewing on an LCD projector the grain is so overpowering it distracts from the movie.
I have to applaud Lucas with Star Wars II and the superb transfer to DVD which as virtually no noise.
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Summary: I agree, but this needs to be said...
Review: First off I'll agree with the majority of the reports posted here about the film, but everyone left off one thing: This DVD should be nominated for the worst extras ever award.
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Summary: Well... maybe 3.5 instead...
Review: I can't say that I was all that thrilled by this film... I was surprised by what a good job Steven Spielberg did directing past Tom Cruise's overstuffed ego, and I thought the dystopian sci-fi future he came up with was kind of interesting, but ultimately this didn't really hang together that well. The premise of the psychics used by the police state didn't quite make sense, and the run-and-hide phase of the film seemed interminable and choppily paced. Also: when the super-duper cyberstate turns against you, don't they kind of automatically turn off your access cards and top-security passes? Why was Cruise's cop character still able to get into restricted areas if they were able to track his every move? Visually, this had its fine points, but again, I felt like the direction was a little too loose... The gee-whiz scene at hte beginning with Cruise waving his magic VR gloves and making the hi-tech computer images dance goes on way too long; like many things in this film, it could have stood a little tightening up. I did enjoy Spielberg's small, goofy slapstick moments, though. It was great to see a big, mega-blockbuster filmmaker still able to pause and take time out for a well-timed gag or two. This was ok, but it could have been better.
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Summary: Minority Report - A great Sci-Fi flick!
Review: This is a movie that I was unfortunately unable to see at the theaters and regretted it then and even more so now, seeing how great a movie it is. You can normally expect a Steven Spielberg film to contain; stunning imagery, intense suspense and an overly enthralling film, which he delivers perfectly in this film. Minority Report is an absolutely riveting film that will have you going from the moment the film starts to the very last second. Tom Cruise's more recent films really haven't really lived up to expectations, not so in this film. He seems to be completely in his stride with this role. He performs brilliantly in this film. Nods to Max Von Sydow as well. If you're into action/mystery films with a good dose of Science Fiction tossed in for good measure, this is your film. Minority Report is a must for your DVD collection! The premise: It is the year 2054 and the film takes place in Washington D. C. For the past several years, murder is all but a thing of the past. With the advent of the Pre Crime division, where three pre-cogs, see a murder before it happens. Tom Cruise plays the chief of the Pre Crimes division, leading the troops in the apprehension of these criminals who haven't, yet are about to commit murder. His character is plagued by the murder of his son, six years prior and is suffering the emotional damage from that murder. The pre-cogs, foretell a murder and as Tom Cruise is working his amazing futuristic computer to discover who the murderer is, he finds that it is he who is the murderer. And so goes the film as he makes his way out of the Pre Crime building and starts on his quest to figure out who has set him up.
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Summary: Fascinating premise, but gimmicky
Review: The theme of Minority Report is really a question of free will vs. predestination. Set about 50 years in the future, it overwhelms with special effects and showcases every conceivable gizmo that might be part of the future. Unfortunately, this, along with some completely unbelievable chase scenes, detracts from the story. Tom Cruise plays a cop in the Precrime Department, which uses "precogs," psychic people whose powers interface with indescribably complex technology to perfectly predict future murders. When the precogs predict that Cruise himself is going to commit a murder, he suspects that he's been set up and runs. What follows are some gratuitous action scenes where he manages to outrun and outfight an entire team of cops. As in all good-cop-on-the-run movies, Cruise must find out what really happened and who is to blame. To do this, he is forced to break into the Precrime Department and kidnap one of the precogs, hardly a plausible mission for the most wanted man in the city. These chase and action scenes are completely unrealistic and gimmicky, even for a science fiction story. James Bond couldn't pull off some of the stunts and getaways that Tom Cruise does here. The special effects, of course, are superb. There are many visually stunning details, such as holograms that can be watched like videos, cars that look like miniature rockets and sinister mechanical spiders that track people. These are, however, basically diversions and contribute to an overly complex plot. When it comes down to it, futuristic technology has little to do with the basic question of whether the future is set in stone or can be changed.
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Summary: Nice Sci-Fi Action Movie
Review: Very cool if you like adventure and special effects. Fun and enjoyable.
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Summary: One of the strongest sci-fi films in recent years.
Review: One of the strongest sci-fi films in recent year, Minority Report came out in 2002, a poster year for the genre. While (not to my surprise) the film did not gross as much as a might have been expected from a joint Spielberg-Cruise outing, the film is a thoughtful and chilling adaptation of a short story by the master Philip K. Dick, one of my favorite authors. As usual with adaptations of Dick, the film strays from the source significantly, but fortunately in the manner of films like Blade Runner, which stay true to its themes, and not like Total Recall. I largely expected this film to be a mediocre outing in the tradition of Impostor, but was pleasantly surprised.
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Summary: The ending disappoints
Review: This could have been a great movie. Unfortunately, the place in the movie that should have been the end of the movie was, in fact, just another place in the movie. The real ending, which occurs much later, is a predictable disappointment.
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