Minority Report

Pros: Acting, Use of CG, and overall pace of the movie
Cons: All too predicatble ending, a bit dumbed down

Philip K. Dick may have been writing almost 50 years ago, but even today he is one of Hollywood's sci-fi fathers. From his books like Blade Runner and Total Recall, it's no wonder directors have turned them into movies. Ridley Scott's Blade Runner...

Pros: Easy to follow storyline; special effects; action sequences
Cons: Duration at 2-1/2 hours long

No doubt, Steven Spielberg studied every classic sci-fi film from Invasion of the Body Snatchers to Blade Runner to the Matrix, in order to nail Minority Report. The future world as envisioned by Phillip Dick, the most prolific sci-fi novelist, is dark,...

Pros: Great SPFX, interesting story, solid cast
Cons: plot holes! improbable twists

In the 1980's, Spielberg ruled the box office and was annually denied any critical recognition. By 1987, he had ventured into serious movie territory with EMPIRE OF THE SUN and A COLOR PURPLE earlier. Still the critics were unmoved. It wasn't until...

Pros: Great, Intelligent Sci-fi. Quite dark for Speilberg.
Cons: Several holes in the logic of the plot. Some silly moments.

The year is 2054 and John Anderton (Tom Cruise) is the chief of an experimental government project in Washington DC called 'PreCrime'. PreCrime works on the principal that murders are predicted and prevented and the would-be perpetrators are then...

Pros: Big budget special effects and Cruise formula with decent story idea
Cons: A little too much rehearsed dialog and no sexy babes (so shallow I am...)

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This review is created with the intent to help those who have not seen the movie to make a decision. Therefore, you will not find plot descriptions that I believe will give away too much. Since I have...

Pros: Decent eye candy, Cruise does Cruise well
Cons: Predictable plot twists, Speilbergian negativity, Mostly unengaging supporting cast, Excitement fizzles out too soon

I am not a student of film. I am a half-hearted consumer at best (especially when it comes to the Hollywood blockbuster). So on a humid NYC summer night my friend and I checked into the local megaplex and settled in for what we thought would be an...

Pros: a cohesive cinematic whole
Cons: nothing

Being a fan of Philip K. Dick's writing, I am rather pleased in general that most of the adaptions of his work to film have also been very successful in the artistic sense, and so I was quite interested to see how "Minority Report" would measure up to...

Pros: The visual effects and art direction are the best I've ever seen.
Cons: The action is clumpy(see below for explanation).

Minority has a killer opening. Or rather, not a killer opening. As we learn within a moment or two of the opening credits, the year is 2054, and 3 psychics who can see future murders, designated "precogs" are used by a futuristic police force to save...

Pros: visually stunning, lots to think about, fairly faithful to source material
Cons: strange plot holes/flaws, "false endings" which might grate

Cheers to Steven Spielberg to continuing on the path that brought us the brilliant, but fatally flawed A.I. Minority Report isn't as ambitious, and manages to succeed, not despite this, but because of it.

Tom Cruise gives a serviceable...

Pros: Stunningly directed and choreographed. Acting.
Cons: Lack of confidence of Spielberg in creating a more plausible ending.

A few thoughts bombarded me while I was attending Steven Spielberg's last movie, "Minority Report." He is a director with a very peculiar professional trajectory. When everybody thought he was going to take on more serious and riskier matters when he ...

Pros: Interesting threshold ideas
Cons: Length, writing, cinematography, enormous plot holes

I am blown away by the existence of so many positive reviews of this boring, predictable, overdone piece of schlock. I left the theatre sadly confident that, whatever Speilberg may have once had, he has now SURELY lost. A.I. was the most recent...

Pros: Great Special Effects.
Cons: None.

Minority Report
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Imagine a future where crimes could be predicted before they happened; this is the concept that Minority Report grasps so very well with such a...

Pros: Exceptional filmmaking, naturally.
Cons: Few.

. . . fear your government!

It is 2054. Washington DC has no murder rate, due to a pilot program called Pre-Crime in which precognitive persons' powers are used to stop crimes before they are committed. Premeditated murder is non-existent,...

Pros: Steven's second attempt on a dark future surely paid-off.
Cons: Don't ask me, coz I didn't find any.

Now we're talkin' Steven! What Steven left out from his previous movie A.I., he came back with a full blast. One question... did Jan Da Bont(producer) have anything to do with the action scenes? Because it's awesome! It's about time Tom gave us another...

Pros: Nice to look at, especially Colin Farrell.
Cons: Just about everything else

I read somewhere that Spielberg is now channeling the soul of Kubrick in this movie. Truer words were never spoken. I'm not a big Kubrick fan, which maybe explains why this movie left me cold and scratching my head trying to figure out what the point...