Report for Spielberg - Very Lame indeed. SPOILERS!!!!

Rating: 4/10 (2 December 2002)

This is Spielberg's most lamentable movie to date. No, I take that back - still Hook! Spielberg has taken over from Quentin Tarantino in trying to blend any number of different movies together in a cinematic blender. Tarantino does it subtly for the most part but he makes the film his own. How many different films did we see in Minority Report? Demolition Man (the eyeballs and the futuristic fascist overtones). The Matrix (when Tom and the pre cog get flushed down the tube in 'The Temple' just like Neo when disconnected from his battery pod. The Fugitive (on the run and we just knew it wouldn't be Colin Farrell who was the baddy but Max Von Sydow (his old buddy) just like Kimble's doctor friend. Someone already mentioned LA Confidential (exactly right when Kevin Spacey got shot). The problem with this was, even though the pre-cogs did not see that coming, the audience saw it the day before. Spielberg should have been arrested by the Pre-Crime unit himself for wasting such a promising idea with dead end plot lines (minority report, hello! Where did it go? They all saw the same thing.) Those that remember the sense of awe and enlightenment that one felt after watching The Matrix the first time understand why Minority Report is unfit to sit on the same Video Store shelves as that great film.