Cruise in the world of 2054 makes a good action hero...

Rating: 6/10 (13 April 2007)

MINORITY REPORT creates such a futuristic world of virtual reality that you can almost forgive some of the missing logic in the premise that has pre-cogs causing Cruise to hunt down the man he's supposed to kill (although he's never met him!). It's the kind of film you can enjoy even if you spot some of the flaws in the logic.
However, despite some of the ingredients that don't quite make sense, it's a thinking man's thriller and Steven Spielberg has produced it on a grand scale befitting a superior thriller of its kind. He's created a futuristic world that is full of larger than life plasma screens and the sort of technology that borders on the believable, given some of the advances already made today.
The premise of the story is even more disturbing since we live in the post-9/11 world where much debate has taken place over the government's right to interfere in citizen's private correspondence (via telephone, for example), while fear of rights being trampled have led to sharp policy differences between Democrats and Republicans. But this, of course, makes the story even more timely and intriguing.
TOM CRUISE gets to play his action hero role in more than a one-dimensional way and is quite convincing as the man on a strange mission to find the man he is destined to kill--unless he can prevent what the pre-cogs have predicted. And COLIN FARRELL and MAX VON SYDOW lend conviction to key supporting roles.
Furthermore, John Williams has written a busy score that magnifies the tension at every turn.
Summing up: Well worth viewing for sci-fi fans who want more than just action-filled, brain numbing excitement.