An overrated Spielberg Movie

Rating: 7/10 (23 June 2002)

***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** I'm surprised, how high the critics have rated this movie. This movie has some very obvious inherent draw backs and the movie has some low class comedy scenes. I'll give it a 7/10. 7 are for the new idea of precrimes and good performance by Tom Cruise. The direction by Spielberg was rather disappointing and at the same level of Lost World.
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Drawbacks in direction:
The eyes of Tom Cruise were still functional at all security access locations even after he was charged with the murder. Those eyes were placed just in a simple plastic bag and they survived a fall to the floor and Tom Cruise who was so smart was stupid at that time to open those sensitive eyes like that and they instead of bursting they started rolling like golf balls and they even didn't disintegrate with time and continued to work after his imprisonment at all security access points.
The comedy scene where Tom Cruise was shown blind and he tried to eat something is not of Spielberg's standards. If a clever agent like Tom Cruise after eating a rotten bread can't even smell the rotten milk before drinking it, its a shame. He was not able to eat proper food but he was able to get in the tub with all the ice in time to get him saved from spiders.
I can't believe there was a big hole where those three psychics were kept and you can flush water so that two people can get out. They didn't show how they were able to get out so easily through that place and didn't face any security. This was unbelieveable flaw.
How the killer that tried to fool the system didn't realize that the psychics can see his face when he is trying to cover his face as they can arbitrarily see in future what is going to happen before a murder.
Spielberg should have explained how the killer planned to trap Tom Cruise and would have enticed him to go inside the building to try to kill the rented man as he went inside the building just he had watched the future predicted by the three psychics other wise the killer and rented man didn't try to do anything to make Tom Cruise come inside.
The UI of the video editing seem difficult and counter intutive and more like a musician waving his hands and the idea of names coming out on a carved ball is rather ridiculous.
The last scene where all the people were watching the video, Tom Cruise character hasn't seen that the girl psychic will send future stream of his murder so how he knew that if the killer didn't kill him the pre crime will fail and the future in the killers hand.
There are many such flaws like that and its not movie that you'll remember after some time. Its a good entertainment while in theater and when you come out you'll be surprised why are the critics doing not doing their job well.