Minority Report (Wide Screen)

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 ... Read review

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 ... Read review

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 ... Read review

Advantages: A good story line.
Disadvantages: Not the best casting or acting.

...Here's my explanation of..... 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 ... Read review

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 ... Read review

Advantages: action blockbuster
Disadvantages: time travel style paradox

...I was told a year ago that i would write this review so here goes - Padded out from a Philip I. Dick short story, Minority Report tells the story of the head of pre-cognitive crime division John Anderton who is accused of a crime he hasn't yet committed. Set in Washington in the year 2054, 3 genetically altered humans can see into the future and give the pre-crime police details of crimes that will soon be committed. If just one of the 'precogs' sees a different outcome it is filed as a 'minority report'. But the time-travel style conundrum is : If someone is arrested before he commits a murder, can the person be accused of the murder, which, because they have been arrested already can never take place? The prisons are likely to fill up quickly with this style of justice and the system, which is trialling well in Washington... Read review

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