What happened to the Constitution?

Rating: Null/10 (22 June 2002)

*Spoiler alert* I have many many things to say about the many illogical plot points of this movie but most are being said already so here's one. I kept thinking throughout the movie that sometime between now and 2054 we must have thrown out the US Constitution. First of all, the foundation of Precrime rests with the precogs... floating HUMANS. So, they clearly have no rights. Second, premurderers are arrested immediately with only a retinal scan to confirm who they are and sent immediately to Containment. No trial, lawyer, no judge, no jury and once they are haloed, effectively no longer living either. So in essence, capital punishment with absolutely NO DUE PROCESS!!! So for the sake of the story, I suspended disbelief and went with it. Yet there John Anderton was (AFTER the time of the murder had already expired to boot!) administering the Miranda warning. Apparently, the Constitution still does exist but only when it suits the plot. Mr. Spielberg, I love you but this is a lesser director's effort not worthy of the man who has brought us so many brilliantly done movies before. Thank god I paid less than the price of a rental to see this as I won't be renting it in the future (well, maybe in 2054, if I live that long, just to compare)