Minority Report (2002)

Just perfect...

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Minority Report is a neo-tech-noir with Tom Cruise center-stage in the story; mix that with Spielberg and you have a match made in cinematic heaven. This is a well-made blockbuster that demonstrates what all blockbusters in the 2000s wanted to be: bombastic spectacles that had thoroughly thought-out stories to their name and survive as memorable viewing experiences in the future.

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).

Continuing my plan to watch every Tom Cruise movie in order, I come to Minority Report (200Plot In A Paragraph: In the year 2054, a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer (Cruise) from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.Cruise teaming up with Steven Spielberg should have been a home run for the pair, but it just misses the mark for me. I remember really liking this movie, but for some reason I have never cared to revisit it. I struggled through it this time, and I considered turning it off more than once. My main problem was I remembered two things about the movie, the scene where his child goes missing and the ending. Although there is lots of special effects, the movie does not rely on them!! Instead it's story and characters that are paramount. Spielberg is a master and he really knows how to work a viewer, and get us invested in a character .Cruise is pretty solid here, despite being in action cruise mode, he still gets to do some dramatic acting. Max Von Sydow does what Max Von Sydow does, Neal McDonough offers solid support as he always does and Colin Farrell is a really annoying when he is chewing!! I HATE noise eaters.Minority Report grossed $132 million at the domestic box office to end 2001 the 17th highest grossing movie of the year. Not what people would have being expecting from A Spielberg/Cruise collaboration.

Before they joined forces to give sci-fi fans their hugely disappointing version of War Of The Worlds, Spielberg and Cruise worked together on Minority Report, a near-future tale based on a short story by Philip K. Dick in which violent crimes can be predicted and prevented from occurring, the perpetrator intercepted before they can carry out the deed. Star Cruise plays pre-crime cop John Anderton, who finds himself on the run after it is predicted that he himself will commit a murder.The good news is that Minority Report is a lot more enjoyable than the duo's H.G.Wells debacle, with an engrossing murder mystery plot, lots of great visuals, excellent production design, and some well executed and extremely fun action set-pieces, all of which help detract from the story's inevitable paradoxical issues and Spielberg's occasional, frustratingly unrestrained direction (Cruise leaping from car roof to car roof on a towering vertical road stretches plausibility a bit too far, but at least it's not 'nuke the fridge' bad).7.5 out of 10, rounded up to 8 for the 'sick stick' a police baton that makes the victim projectile vomit.