Minority Report | | Cast : | Tom Cruise, Max von Sydow | | Director : | Steven Spielberg | | Studio : | Universal Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | June 21, 2002 | | DVD Released Date : | August 23, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 09, 2005 | | Summary | An All-Around Great Science Fiction Film! | Content
 | My wife & I are not big sci-fi fans, but we really enjoyed "Minority Report". The story, the action, and the hi-tech gadgets are all great. Tom Cruise is effective in the lead role and we can actually forget that he is Tom Cruise and just enjoy his character! A fun ride from beginning to end. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 07, 2005 | | Summary | Way Too Overrated, Among Other Things | Content
| Way too long, way too blue, way too nothing like the original Philip Dick story (far superior), way too formula Hollywood, way too much crap. Two stars for a couple interesting visuals, but that's about it. If you want Philip Dick done right, go Blade Runner, go Screamers, and then go Total Recall (yes, big budet Hollywood action, but it still retains a good Philip Dick core). Minority Report just sucked. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 01, 2005 | | Summary | "The system is perfect." | Content
| A few unfortunate children were born with psychic ability to see the future. Unfortunate, because they saw only the most shocking events, murders. Once this ability was realized, they became organic components in a massive machine. The Pre-Crime machine's purpose was to stop the murder that was about to happen, rather than solve it after the fact. Once the system is put in place, the murder rate goes to zero - the system is perfect.
But of course, it's not. In fact, this movie turns into a murder mystery of the kind that the perfect system was meant to end. It's a thoughtful movie, with cause and effect rattling backward and forward through time. There's one good action sequence, though, when Tom Cruise (playing John Anderton) runs from arrest for the crime he didn't yet commit. Saying more would say too much, but Max von Sydow (as head of Pre-Crime), Samantha Morton (as one of the psychics) and others all put in good performances.
The movie ends on a hopeful note. People can see mistakes and fix them, even mistakes on so huge a social scale. Maybe the system isn't perfect, but it keeps trying.
//wiredweird |
| Rating | | | Date | July 23, 2005 | | Summary | Great premise but almost masterpiece level | Content
| Before filming began, Steven Spielberg created a "think tank" of scientists, physicists etc to basically brainstorm what would the future be like, from transportation to home movies to advertising. It's an eerily real picture, as if someone went into the future and came back and told everyone what he saw. So we have Spielberg's first action blockbuster since the Lost World and it's not in the same category as E.T or Jaws but it's still an entertaining romp.
Less than 50 years from now, the Precrime Unit uses the psychic abilities of 3 clairvoyants to determine when someone gets murder so it's up to the police to stop it from happening. But this creates a debate: is someone a murderer if they haven't done it yet? John Anderton believes in its system until he becomes the murderer of someone he's never met. Instead of just getting arrested, he decides to do what they others don't get to do: figure out why he's going to kill him meanwhile being hunted by Precrime's other policemen.
It's a future that seems quite possible. Instead of advertisements on TV, electronic scanners scan your eyes than proceed to advertise their products/services and actually address you. Getting on a train gets you scanned. They even have small Spyders which can also scan rather than policemen doing it themselves.
Transportation systems have electronic cars magnetized(said in the bonus features) and they can travel up and down buildings. Instead of men building cars, it does it all by itself. These and many more are featured in the film and helped along by Spielberg's think tank.
Now for the film itself. It's merely a good movie. It's not awesome like Jaws, or great like Close Encounters, it's merely good. Close Encounters had a 2 and a half hour pacing but never felt it, here it almost feels it(same length). Also while Jaws freaked you out and scared you and Jurassic Park gripped you, this just merely entertains you. It's like it doesn't get you pumped about the action scenes, it's like "ooh an action scene" but you don't get anything afterward.
Tom Cruise can be a good actor if he had the right character. Ever see Magnolia? He's actually surprising in that. Sometimes actors think the best way to act is just to have a big serious face the entire film so it looks like you're deep in thought and troubled. Robert De Niro and Al Pacino can just do one facial expression and they say more than a big overracted speech. Tom Cruise kind of pulls it off, getting better as the film continues. The rest do their job but they merely play static characters, providing a certain type of attitude, so you have the estranged and little bitter wife, the "I'm gonna get you" government agent and the father-ly runner of Pre-Crime.
If you're thinking of another Spielberg masterpiece think again. But it's close enough and even a near masterpiece is more better watching than the recent fare plaguing movie theatres(I'm looking at you The Pacifier, Monster-in-Law and Shark Boy and Lava Girl) |
| Rating | | | Date | July 14, 2005 | | Summary | Zero Stars if I could. Worst movie ever. How bad can they get? | Content
| This "film" is the worst movie i have ever seen. Well, we all have seen some real stinkers, though. THis one is very high on the stinker list. It is right there along with Wild Wild West, War of the worlds, Day after tomorrow, and Independence Day. bad acting, bad plot, totally boring. Non-eventful and totally implausible. Last I saw the white house was still standing; unfortunately, it has some boob running it with his henchmen. THe U.S. may has well as invaded costa rica instead of Iraq. There was no reason to at all. They put fear in the populace and all of the sheep ate it up like hog-slop and rewarded him with another term. Absolutely disgraceful. I am embarrassed to be a US citizen.
Back to the movie; this film is terrible. Don't waste your time. IT is a poorly written script, bad story, and bad acting. Tom Cruise should learn his lesson from working with spielberg and not make another stinker with him. He will be hard pressed to ever top his work with Oliver Stone. Tom is capable of so much better. SO is colin farrell. |
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