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Summary: Minority Report---Everyone Runs...To the box office!
Review: This movie was incredible. The hot and dazzling Tom Cruise lights up the screen with his wonderful enactment of a police cop of the future. Now that the US has formed a way to stop crime before it happens, the death rate in the country has dramatically decreased. But one day when the main precog sees the respectable, fast cop commiting a crime, the entire system is turned upside down. With only a few days to prove his innocence, tom cruise must visit the precog creator and go to the man who can destroy him and his entire career, the vicitm of his crime. A must see for everyone who is into fast action and suspenseful excitement. Tom Cruise stars in Minority Report.
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Summary: COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER WITH SOME CHANGES
Review: The original short story needed some expanding to turn it into a two-hour movie, of that there is no question. So the plot gets a little complicated, but there's nothing wrong with that. But the last half hour plays like a dream, or a very odd joke. Up until then the film is reasonably suspenseful and fascinating to look at. Cruise is in his MISSION IMPOSSIBE rather than his MAGNOLIA mode, which means he is simply playing his good old matinee self. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Spielberg has done much better, of course. But this is what the man is turning out today, so you either go with it or you don't.
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Summary: Intelligent? Maybe for a half hour....
Review: A good idea poorly executed: Plain and Simple. As far as staying true to the spirit of Philip K. Dick's writings and themes, I won't criticize what isn't in the film, only what is.In Minority Report Speilberg gives a few overt nods to another film about a future society that tries to eliminate crime, Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" (the eye pieces, the drunk in the hallway) But this film has neither the impact or the depth of the Kubrick film. Tom Cruise plays the same character he always does....Tom Cruise. The film suffers from many things; its too long, too much plot, lots of redundant dialogue, a camera that won't stay still when it should, predictable plotting. My BIGGEST gripe is that the script includes too many scenes of people explaining things: its excruciating. Janusz Kaminski proves again he is masterful with texture but has no idea how to frame a SINGLE memorable image. And we, of course, have the obligatory happy Spielberg ending. I like long movies, I could watch Lawrence of Arabia and the Seven Samurai all day or ten hours of the Decalogue forever. When a movie is longer than two and a half hours I will be paying close attention. This movie was a waste of my time. I should have walked out after the first hour, I could have found something else to do in that time that was more entertaining.
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Summary: BEST FILM OF 2002 (so far!)
Review: I find it hard to understand how this movie was only a mild success. This is one of Spielberg's best films and perhaps Cruise's very best. The jetpack and shopping mall chases will go down in film history as truly classic scenes. Whenever anybody complains they don't make movies as they used to, I suggest bringing up Minority Report !
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Summary: Spielberg RULES!
Review: A great thriller with twists and turns, that you will never know the answers to our heroe's questions until the very end.
Spielberg shows his dark side in this movie, as this movie has many action scenes, violence, and some sex meanings.
This year's best thriller yet!
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Summary: The Second best thriller of the decade.
Review: If not for Fox's 24 (yes, the television series), Minority Report would probably be my choice for (so far) the best thriller of the decade. Pretty hefty statement, I realize, but Minority Report's a pretty hefty movie, one that plays as an innovative mix of futuristic sci-fi and film-noir. And I'm a little surprised nobody prior to Steven Spielberg has tried for for a similar formula (cases have been made for Blade Runner and Dark City, though I can't entirely agree). Minority Report is set in the year 2054, a future that, outside of the roads and constant eye-scans, still visually resembles the present (or the past, in this movie's case). Tom Cruise stars as John Anderton, one of the heads of Pre-Crime, a division in Washington, D.C. that has the ability to stop murders before they happen, thanks to the work of three Pre-Cogs, psychics (two male and one female) permanently placed in a watery bath, delivering info about the future to the Pre-Crime division (just how it's done is revealed in a very clever and tense opening sequence). Anyway, there's a debate over whether or not Pre-Crime should go national, and it's something that the people are going to vote on. The creator of this division, Lamar Burgess (Max Von Sydow), is a bit wary of the FBI agent (Colin Farrell) sent to investigate the way the division operates and the possible infallibilities. Anderton himself has a bit of a mess in his personal life. He lost his son six years ago, is divorced, and is addicted to illegal drugs. But matters grow even worse when the Pre-Cogs' latest vision displays a pre-meditated murder (unsurprisingly stated as a rarity in D.C.) and the killer happens to be Anderton himself! Going on the run, Anderton struggles to escape his old teammates and discover the truth behind this vision; is it a mistake or a genuine view of a nightmarish destiny? First off, let me say hats off to Steven Spielberg. The man's always had unfounded criticism tossed at him with virtually every film he's ever made. It's nice to see he's never dissuaded (or influenced) by such complaints, he's a filmmaker who's always crafted his films with a touch of confidence and genuine emotion that few directors could even hope to achieve in decades worth of work (in case you can't tell, I'm a Spielberg fan, meaning I've just incurred the wrath of David Lynch lovers). Spielberg's work here is, right off the bat, much unlike anything I've ever seen him do. Sure, there was A.I., but not a segment in that film resembled Minority Report's opening scenes, a montage of quick-cuts awash in blue colors that builds in both violence and intensity, in spite of the fact this sequence moves backward (meaning the violent act is committed first, then we see what led up to it). The segment ends with a close-up of an eye, with the camera pulling back to reveal a woman lying in a pool, ominously stating the word, "murder." It's a chilling, daring intro that holds a lot of promise, and instead of disappointing, the rest of the film actually manages to improve upon it. The future that Spielberg presents here is entirely believable, from both a societal and technological viewpoint. Most interestingly, when I first saw the previews, I'd expected a "Big Brother" type society akin to 1984, one in which the government monitored all the actions of the people. But that's not the case here. The government presented here questions the ethics and logic behind Pre-Crime because if this were reality, it's a subject matter of serious concern, and not just hive-minded behavior and blather about how this is good for "everybody." Finally, we get a film that features a dark view of the future, but simultaneously gives us reasonable, intelligent characters that realize there are pros and cons to everything. On a dramatic level, Minority Report delivers with as much resonance as A.I., and maybe even better when you factor in just how coherently and cleverly Spielberg and the writers tie all the subplots together. The emotional baggage is handled mostly by Tom Cruise, who does quite an admirable job; maybe that's an understatement, like the man or not, he delivers one of the best performances I've seen all year. No one else except for maybe Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton, comes close to Cruise's powerhouse performance, not even Max Von Sydow. Plot-wise, the film is on solid ground with a few admittedly major stumbles. One of the movie's narrative burners is the move to make Pre-Crime national, which when you consider the logistics, is almost impossible (3 pre-cogs, an entire country, the cops have to decipher the location through the visual clues; let's face it, you'd need thousands of pre-cogs to pull it off). (Major spoiler here) The film's big plot twist, while fairly surprising and thought-provoking, doesn't completely hold water. It's a nice, well-done time loop, but if you consider what happens, then by that basis, I'd suspect a LOT of people could just as easily be accused of murder on such thing ground. Whether or not Minority Report would appeal to the traditional summer crowd is a little iffy. There's not a whole lot of action (though the jetpack chase/car factory fight is the most hectic, exciting action scene I've seen all year), the story requires undivided attention (and maybe even a repeat viewing to gather in all the themes), and the downbeat tone, almost pessimistic tone will throw a lot of viewers off. But for those who do get caught up in this twisty tale (and that should apply to most people), Minority Report offers a lot of rewards, more than you could reasonably expect from a big-budget blockbuster. A lot of people see Minority Report as a warning for how far technology could go and bite us back. While such a statement works to an extent for A.I., Report is mostly about morals, accepted ethics, and an intriguing look on just how far people are willing to go for their own survival in this "winner takes all" society. As far as science fiction goes, the genre hasn't been this damned smart and thought-provoking since Dark City.
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Summary: Thinking sci-fi at its best...almost
Review: "Minority Report" is a fine movie but it could have been better if it put more stress on building the atmosphere and less on the display of various impressive futuristic gadgets in every possible chance (the personalized ads were an interesting exception though!). But don't get me wrong. I am a fan of good sci-fi movies and "Minority Report" certainly fits to this description. Still, it is a notch below excellent movies like "Blade Runner". It belongs to the category that cinemagoers like to call "thinking sci-fi movies" since the plot is not just a pretense for an avalanche of action sequences. Rather than that, the plot is the focal point of the film itself. And it is a rather scary plot indeed. It calls for a future society where a special police force, rightfully called "Precrime", arrests "criminals" before they commit their crime. Anderton (Tom Cruise) is a detective, who, after the loss of his son in a weird pool accident, becomes totally devoted to this task. He is the best in his job, until one day, the system that he blindly serves, accuses him for a crime of a person he doesn't even know.... Cruise feels very comfortable in all his action scenes - and there are many of these in the film - while he is not bad either in scenes revealing his wounded emotional self...Sydow, and Samantha Morton, offer a strong supporting cast. Steven Spielberg, with the help of Janusz Kaminski in cinematography, do a splendid job indirection...Look closely at his camerawork in some of the action scenes. I also have to note a couple of sequences that vividly reminded me of a David Lynch movie: the first one is the "eye-popping" operation that Anderton has to go through, in order to fool the authorities, and the second one involves an old lady with a pipe. Not bad at all! In general, this is a film I surely recommend. Still the story leaves a number of important issues open. And I would prefer it if some of the action sequences were left out in favour of providing us some more food for the mind.
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Summary: best movie of 2002 so far
Review: ...Spielberg proves that he is a master filmmaker with something that one must consider a modern masterpiece. It will stand in film history as a timecapsule of one of this era's great director's bleek vision of the near future -- a very real, dark, and believable vision that will make you cringe at the thought of how close it really is.
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Summary: Not bad, but
Review: In thrillers I look for an impeccable suspension of disbelief, coherence and mystery of the plot, that gets me through the show. The Basic Instinct had it, as an example.
I deduct 1 star because: a/ The extremely cunning main villain somehow forgot to block Tom Cruise's character's eye code acceptance to THE PLACE. b/ We would definitely expect 2054 illegal EYE clinic to be kept way more higenically than the one portrayed in The Minority Report... I am apalled. An excellent part by the actor-surgeon by the way... What the heck was that, can anybody clarify what happened to medical professionalism in 2054 ?
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Summary: We Can See You Murder...
Review: Detective John Anderton (Tom Cruise) is working on the pre-crime division that prevents murders by seeing into the future through three pre-cogs, gifted individuals that can see into the future through dreams. John firmly believes in a pre-crimes system, but there are those who have a different opinions such as detective Danny Witwer (Colin Farrell). Shortly after Witwer's arrival, the pre-cogs have dream of John being a murderer, which is shocking to John. A stunned John escapes the pre-crime unit while trying to figure out who is setting him up, after all John has never meet this stranger that he supposedly will kill. Minority Report is an exciting sci-fi film that has many interesting viewpoints that will entertain the audience.
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