The science-fiction thriller MINORITY REPORT, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise, is based on a short story by renowned writer Philip K. Dick. In the year 2054,... more
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Minority Report is futuristic film noir with a far-fetched B-movie plot that's so feverishly presented the audience never gets a chance to ponder its many improbabili...
Minority Report is futuristic film noir with a far-fetched B-movie plot that's so feverishly presented the audience never gets a chance to ponder its many improbabili...
MINORITY REPORT
Set in Washington, D.C. in the year 2054, this is the story of John Anderton, a detective
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working in the 'Pre-crime' division. The special police unit arrests people before they commit murder with the help of three Precogs. Precogs are genetically alte...
MINORITY REPORT
Set in Washington, D.C. in the year 2054, this is the story of John Anderton, a detective
... more
working in the 'Pre-crime' division. The special police unit arrests people before they commit murder with the help of three Precogs. Precogs are genetically altered humans who can predict the future. When the Precogs identify John as a future killer he becomes a fugitive and takes off with his colleagues hot on his heels...n
Advantages: Plot, performances, action scenes Disadvantages: Some in-cohesive parts
...Tom Cruise, Philip Dick => Minority Report. This is very good team giving us a great movie. Having had a bad experience with ‘The Impostor’ which Philip dick wrote, I wasn’t very sure about this film before I started watching it. The calendar states 2054 and in Washington suburbs there is an operation taking place by Pre-Crime Division. This was created after the discovery of a method where are future crimes are forecasted. With this method, ‘criminals’ ... ...order to final script of Minority Report. The first one is that of Alfred Hitchcock, who first taught the “everyone chases one innocent and the innocent struggles alone to find the truth and point to the person that is truly guilty”. The second faculty is that of Agatha Christy. She was the first to create such complicated stories with continuous inversions, until the ultimate scene that was always the most possible inversion of the plot. Why am ...
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Advantages: Superbly written with tremondous depth. Disadvantages: Failure at the box office. Over complicated?
Minority Report Review
Cruise and Spielberg. Those two names alone will make a movie buff’s heart skip a beat and stomach fill with butterflies when the word summer block buster is added to the sentence, and yet in 2002 when the duo released their predicted hit the box office did nothing but fizzle. Spielberg had just come off another huge disappointment with the title of AI, but was still reeling in the success of Saving Private Ryan from 1999. ... ...The musical score in Minority Reports, as most Spielberg movies, relies on brilliant classical orchestras, and even though the “old fashioned” music is not contemporary it compliments the futuristic context perfectly, creating the tense and superficial feeling the film longs for. The musical score is justified by the brilliant directing that you come to expect from the master of film, Steven Spielberg, who takes command of the flick. The great camera ...
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Advantages: Plot, acting, special effects Disadvantages: Advertising, DVD features a bit boring.
It’s just a normal day at the office for John Anderton when out of the blue, the pre-cons have a vision about a murder of passion about to be committed somewhere in the Washington area. As these crimes are not pre-meditated, this leaves the Pre-Crime police force, and John himself, little time to sort through the images given to them from the pre-cog trio and get to the scene to stop the murder from happenening.
Thankfully, the experience of John ... ...identical row of houses, allows him to save the adulterous wife and her lover from a distraught man who has just found out about it. So, after a hard day at the office, John returns home. However it is very clear that he is a far from happy man, reliving past memories of his son and his wife through the 3D imaging system he has, and getting away from it all by illegally ‘doping’.
The next day, on arrival at the Pre Crime offices, John is greeted ...
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Advantages: A good story line. Disadvantages: Not the best casting or acting.
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MINORITY REPORT
***ACTORS/ACTRESSES***
Tom Cruise: Top Gun, The Last Samurai
Colin Farrell: Daredevil, The Recruit
Samantha Morton: Enduring Love, Eden
Max von Sydow: Hostile Waters, Truckstop
***CHARACTERS***
Det. John Anderton
Played by actor Tom Cruise. John is the chief detective at the Precrime division. Having lost his child in a public swimming pool years ago, being dependant on drugs and having his wife ... ...lust for fast-paced action, but Minority Report delivers all that and a whole lot more."
Scott Weinberg, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"It is a kickass, dense sci-fi action thriller hybrid that delivers and then some. I haven't seen one in so long, no wonder I didn't recognize it at first."
Widgett Walls, NEEDCOFFEE.COM
***THE BORING BITS***
Title: Minority Report
Running time: 139 minutes
Certificate: 12
Price: £9.99
DVD/VHS: Yes and the DVD comes in ...
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Advantages: Great concept Disadvantages: Unnecessary tidying up at end
...you in a movie". Yet Minority Report is their first joint project, despite past attempts to work together - Spielberg even prepped Rain Man for 6 months before leaving to do Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. So finally, last week, I went to find out if the film is as good as the hype... THE PLOT Washington D.C., 2054: An experimental Precrime unit has reduced the rate of violent crime to almost zero. No one has been murdered for nearly six years. ... ...on the short story "The Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick. Dick has something of a cult status, and has had several of his futuristic, paranoid, conspiracy driven stories realised in the form of films, notably Blade Runner and Total Recall. He is notorious for underdevelopment of characters and their surroundings, preferring to focus on the situations he creates and the questions they raise. However, the screenwriters have done a great job of turning ...
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Actor(s): Tom Cruise, Samantha Morton, Colin Farrell, Max Von Sydow, Peter Stormare, Steve Harris, Mike Binder, Daniel London
Director(s): Steven Spielberg
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Classification: 12 years and over
Production Year: 2002
Running Time: 2 hours 22 minutes
Video Category: Feature Film
Plot: Set in Washington, D.C. in the year 2054, this is the story of John Anderton, a detective working in the 'Pre-crime' division. The special police unit arrests people before they commit murder with the help of three Precogs. Precogs are genetically altered humans who can predict the future. When the Precogs identify John as a future killer he becomes a fugitive and takes off with his colleagues hot on his heels...
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment; Deluxe Video Service - Fox
Release date: 03/05/2004
No of Discs: 2
Catalogue No: 20918 DVD
Barcode: 5039036010382
Languages
Main Language: English
Subtitle Language: Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish
Hearing Impaired Language: English
DVD Description
The science-fiction thriller MINORITY REPORT, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise, is based on a short story by renowned writer Philip K. Dick. In the year 2054, in Washington, D.C., murder has been eliminated thanks to Precrime, a program that uses the visions of three psychics, called Precogs (an abbreviation for precognitive thinkers), to arrest and imprison would-be murderers before they have a chance to kill. Tom Cruise plays John Anderton, a Precrime enforcer who believes in the system for his own personal reasons--years back his young son was abducted, and he has dealt with the loss by becoming a high-strung Precrime officer. The director of Precrime (Max von Sydow) is eager to take the program national, and feels threatened by an ambitious federal agent (Colin Farrell) who is bent on finding a flaw in the system. When Anderton finds himself accused of the future murder of a man he's never met, his faith in Precrime is instantly shaken. He goes on the run, and is trailed by the relentless Precrime police. In the tradition of BLADE RUNNER (also based on a Dick story), MINORITY REPORT is a dark, brooding vision of the future. Spielberg expertly mixes thrilling chase and suspense sequences (the best of which involves Anderton being pursued by eye-scanning mechanical spiders) and stunning special effects with a challenging look at society's willingness to sacrifice privacy and the notion of free will for convenience and security. MINORITY REPORT is a thought-provoking and exciting film that ranks with Spielberg's best.
Technical information
Special Features: 2 From Story To Screen Featurettes Including The Story The Debate And The Players, 5 Deconstructing Minority Report Featurettes, 3 Stunt Featurettes, 6 ILM And Minority Report Featurettes, Final Report Steven Spielberg And Tom Cruise Featurette, Production Concepts Still Gallery, Storyboard Sequences, Cast And Filmmakers Biographies, Production Notes, Activision Game Trailer, 3 Theatrical Trailers, Scene Access, Interactive Menus
Aspect Ratio: 2.40 Wide Screen, 16:9 Wide Screen
Sound: DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1
Dubbing Sound: DTS 5.1 English Dolby Digital 5.1 English
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