Minority Report

Pros: Tom Cruise, Story, Supporting Cast, Action
Cons: Not more top quality science fiction available

Minority Report (2002) "The way we affect destiny, we're more like clergy than cops." Pre-crime worker Minority Report is a well done science fiction crime thriller that asks some provocative questions and keeps you riveted to ...

Pros: Great visuals and effects, good cast, strong plot
Cons: Could perhaps have done more with the plot

Minority Report is a sci-fi action thriller starring Tom Cruise, directed by Steven Spielberg, and based on a story by Philip K Dick. The combination works rather well in this case, though it’s not a sci-fi classic. John Anderton works at ...

Pros: Cruise conveys ingenuity and emotion
Cons: It's too believable

This semester I am taking "Criminal Procedure-Police Practices," which is not required at this law school, but is strongly recommended for the bar. The more I have learned about the Fourth Amendment's ban on unreasonable searches and seizures and the ...

Pros: CGI Animation, Actuall Ideas, Precrime, Good Story and Plot.
Cons: Less Special Extras on DVD.

This is my review of one of the best movies of 2002, Minority Report, Now here is where we start THE TIE-MOVIE WAR The Tie-Movie War Began on June 21, 2002, two movies were released that were both Sci-Fi Movies, Minority Report And Lilo & ...

Pros: a visually stunning, high tech thriller
Cons: Colin Farrell

The backdrop for Minority Report is a high tech world of talking advertisements, automated cars and retinal scans fifty years in the future, recognisable in some respects and totally alien in others. Much has changed between the present day and this ...

Pros: Tom Cruise acts, Steven Spielberg directs. Exciting AND intelligent.
Cons: Requires the viewer's undivided attention.

Steven Spielberg's 2002 Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, and Max Von Sidow, is a surprisingly engrossing science fiction/mystery/action film set in a future not very far away. Based on a short story by Philip K. Dick (whose works have ...

Pros: Tom Cruise is fabulous, special effects are great. plot is thick with details.
Cons: none to note

Imagine it's 2054 and you're a police officer working in the most politically motivated city in the United States, Washington,DC. Now imagine the crime rate in said city. You're thinking it must be huge, right? Wrong! Thanks to an ...

Pros: Interesting story
Cons: Gets complicated

Before I start, I should warn you that I’m going to be giving away some details that you might not want to hear. Some of them are gross and some of them are plot details. I’ll also be mentioning where the movie’s name comes from. Read on at your own ...

Pros: Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, intelligent story
Cons: time length

The first collaboration between superstar actor Tom Cruise and famed director Steven Spielberg seems to be a film of redemption. Both had trouble with their last picture with Tom Cruise’s Vanilla Sky not meeting expectations and Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Ar ...

Pros: Great story, incredible visuals, wonderful acting
Cons: Length, a bit complex to comprehend everythiing at all times

Crime is a big problem in today’s society and much has been attempted to resolve this problem, but n ...

Pros: Futuristic gumshoe-type dectective movie.
Cons: Kind of confusing.

In the very near future, crimes can be predicted, and the special department of Precrime is in charg ...

Pros: - great when watching for the first time - thrilling
Cons: - unsuitable for watching more than once

This movie, being directed by Steven Spielberg, is a masterpiece in the way it is made. For the firs ...

Pros: Interesting Concept, interesting characters
Cons: Direction, some acting, Thematically repetitive

Somewhere along the line, I began to associate Philip K. Dick with L. Ron Hubbard. Both science fi ...

Pros: Works as a noir film, has some fun action sequences, great set design
Cons: Doesn't work as a philosophical sci-fi movie, tells instead of showing

Minority Report comes from with from an impressive heritage: based on a short story by Phillip K. Dick, who penned the stories behind other mind-bending sci-fi flicks like Blade Runner and Total Recall; directed by Stephen Spielberg,...

Pros: A sci-fi fantasy that nevertheless strikes sociopolitically close to home.
Cons: Spielberg can't shed his inner-Frank Capra at the conclusion.

Minority Report (2002) is a summer movie with a mind. Like The Matrix (1999), it's a heady mix of abstraction and balletic action set pieces. Both lower lofty philosophical issues to street level...and are given life and death urgency. The...