an intelligent formula picture

Rating: Null/10 (5 July 2002)

I finally saw it yesterday and had predicted most of the plot parts before entering the theater. An introduction to explain what precrime is, an investigator so that the actors have to explain everything, the chase scenes, the hero executing his plan, and the final face off/conflict.

Some of the portions were good like the introduction and Tom Cruise making and executing his plan. However, the chase scenes were cartoonishly bad and the finale just shows how Hollywood has to have a happy ending.

I almost laughed through the chase scenes where Cruise went from the slideways in the future's downtown, DC, to a ghetto alley, to a futuristic car factory (there is not a factory within 30 miles of DC now and I doubt if there is one in the future), to driving a future car down a flower lined road.
The scenes at Dr. Iris Hineman's Little Shop of Horrors House in the country looked like they were from a different movie and just thrown in to move the plot along.
The acting was fine except for Cruise who played the part like he thought that he was in MI3.
A good movie but not one thing about it causes me to want to really recommend it to anyone.