7/1/2002
Minority Report stars Tom Cruise as Detective John Anderton, Max von Sydow as Director Lamar Burgess, Steve Harris as Jad, Neal McDonough as Officer Fletcher, Patrick Kilpatrick as Knott, Jessica Capshaw as Evanna, Richard Coca as Pre-Crime Cop, Kirk B.R. Woller as Pre-Crime Cop (Ross), Klea Scott as Pre-Crime Cop, Frank Grillo as Pre-Crime Cop, Anna Maria Horsford as Casey, Sarah Simmons as Lamar Burgess' Secretary, Eugene Osment as Jad's Technician.
Minority Report is another Spielberg film that has a lot of good qualities but interjects some really stupid stuff into a futuristic film. We first get the color scheme of Gattaca, pale gray. (I certainly hope the future has rainbows!) Along with that we are given a great look at future computer screens that require someone to physically walk over and plug in a clear plastic data holder, think clipboard. So, on to the plot. Fortunately the premise for this film is a great story, it just doesn't make it to the screen. Instead we get to watch a video game.
Ok, on to the story. Minority Report is a film about a futuristic pilot, pre-crime program in Washington D.C. Three gifted psychics predict murder. The Pre-crime team is told the name of the victim and the perpetrator and then must find them and stop the crime. They are successful at hunting down and then placing the pre-murderer in prison. Our hero is a believer in the program until, you guessed it, his turn comes up.
We are then in another action movie where the chase is more important than developing the story, and so we chase. And we are left with a brief explanation of the title, which has very little to do with the film.
I give it 2 out of 5 wooden balls: 