Grade:  B

Director:  Steven Spielberg		Released:  June 2002
Writer:  Scott Frank, Philip K. Dick		MPAA Rating:  PG-13
Players:  Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton		Running time:  145 minutes

Ratings System

Minority Report is an old-fashioned detective story set in the future, where every detail of every scene has been meticulously thought out.  And that's good.  I like the amount of thought that went into it.  All that thinking is (of course) punctuated with action sequences that range from good to excellent.

One of the best of those action scenes is used to open the film and gets you involved in the story immediately.  It also sets up all the rules for the film (which it promptly proceeds to break), and shows the procedure for how pre-crime works.  Information which is critical for following the rest of the narrative.

I'm guessing this film could have lived without the obligatory fistfight between the leads.  And my major complaint is that when it's all said and done, everything falls into place a little too nicely.  Everything turns out to be pretty cookie-cutter.  But this is a Spielberg film after all, so it's par for the course.  I just can't help wondering where the sense of responsibility is.  Cruise's character does some dirty deeds through the course of the film (and other characters know it), but there don't seem to be any consequences.  By film's end everything is forgive and forget, apparently.

- crocoPuffs