Everybody runs........

Rating: 7/10 (16 October 2014)

Murder is virtually eliminated, thanks to an elite law enforcing squad.
They use three gifted humans("Pre-Cogs") with psychic powers to see into the future and predict crimes beforehand.
John Anderton heads the unit and believes in the system's flawlessness. But the Pre-Cogs predict that Anderton will commit a murder himself in the next 36 hours.
But Anderton doesn't even know the victim. He decides to get to the mystery's core by finding out the titular report which means the prediction of the female Pre-Cog Agatha that might tell a different story and prove Anderton innocent.
After the opening scene, you begin to realise that this isn't your normal Spielberg summer movie. In fact, next to War Of The Worlds, this is his darkest blockbuster.
From the dystopian setting, which is ironic considering the whole concept, to the bleached film stock, it isn't the most joyous summer movie, but it's a lot of fun, if it is twenty minutes too long.
As soon as Andertons name is etched on to the ball, it doesn't let up until he meets Crowe, who subliminally is his maker.
As with the majority of Spielberg summer films, nuclear family, or the concept of the nuclear family, is a big part of the film, and the Director gets the loss of Andertons son to be a pivotal part of the film.
Cruise excels as the desperate father, and he isn't the character you'd expect him to be. Here he is an addict, desperate, but at the same time,exudes an air of wanting to give up at certain points.
Standout scenes are the chase that ends with a yoga position, the search for Anderton with the spiders, and the jet pack sequence.
the camera-work is wonderful here, and some of the images stay with you a longtime after the film, like when Anderton is holding Agatha in the hotel foyer, just beautiful.
There is a lot of exposition in the film, hence the weighty length of the film, it didn't need to be this long, and the scene with Sydow and Farrell is ripped straight from L.A Confidential.
But all in all, it's an effective thriller, Cruise is brilliant, and Spielberg breathes a Hitchcockian element into the whole proceedings