Kirpianuscus For me, it is a special film. Out of any explanation. An experience. Andva fascinating movie. For the presence of Max van Sydow and his performance. For Tom Cruise job. For the delicacy and precision of story. And for many others details. And, sure, for the admirable made of a drama with deep roots in near reality.

adonis98-743-186503 In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder. Minority Report is based on a short story from Philip K. Dick who wrote Blade Runner (1982) and Total Recall (1990) with both of those stories of course turning into books sort after plus the film was sceduled as a Total Recall sequel but then was re-written and stars Tom Cruise and Colin Farrell. First of all this movie is beautiful in terms of special effects, the perfomances are very good and the story is packed with lots of twists, suspense and action that fans of Steven Spielberg and Cruise won't be disappointed by. (10/10)

SevenDeadlyThings The script was originally adapted as a sequel to Total Recall (1990) in that was set in the same universe, the main character was Douglas Quaid, and the three Precogs were psychic mutants from Mars. This script was eventually tossed out - the only original element remaining in the final film is the sequence in the car factory, an idea that Spielberg loved. In the original short story, "The Minority Report" (1956) the protagonist John Anderton is short, fat, and balding, yet here we get action man Cruise, up against the young Federal agent Farrell, who later appeared in another Dick adaptation of Total Recall (2012).

ericventura The film poses the question: is one guilty of a crime they will (?) commit in the future? Pleasantly surprised to see Steven Spielberg was directing, the movie soon turned into one of Spielberg's worst. Resorting to the typical action chase sequences popularized by The French Connection (1971), it becomes the mindless slobber of the masses, starring Tom Cruise. And Tom Cruise, who rather than pull off another Magnolia (1999) level performance, devolves to the emotionless action hero, a la Arnold Schwarzenegger. The film that starts off as an intriguing moral debate morphs to the action movie formula, including long, improbable, and exciting chase scenes; huge government conspiracies; and a false climax, or twist with no cinematic purpose whatsoever. A movie, whose moral question could've been answered earlier, stretches into a 2 and a half hour fiasco with an answer at the end to a question proposed at the beginning - with no further development throughout the interim. Despite the film's fantastic sets and artistic development, predicting a beautiful Utopian future, the movie becomes one of improbabilities and unrealistic expectations. The title itself, which upon introduction, seems to integrate itself perfectly into the story as a plot, development, and thematic device, instead fading out of conscience into the abyss of fodder action flicks. With a mystery half-explored - half left in the annals of cinematic nothingness (along with the rest of the potential of the film) and the other half being the more exciting and action flick-acceptable – the movie is content with a weak answer to a weak question. The viewer shouldn't be. In a noble pursuit, Spielberg attempts to attack a system, much like Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964); however, he attacks an imaginary system to come to an imaginary answer for the imaginary question. His noble pursuit, instead of flying across the Atlantic like Charles Lindbergh, crosses a gargantuan gorge on a wooden bridge with no bottom, plummeting into the crocodile-infested waters below. The legendary Indiana Jones may have been able to do it, but not John Anderton of Minority Report. Kudos to the set; kudos to the attempt; failure otherwise.