Entertaining and well made, but so divergent from the source it barely needed to credit it.

Rating: 6/10 (17 November 2013)

Well it is Steven Spielberg directing here so there is that level of quality synonymous with him. Also Tom Cruise is excellent ... I mean the guy's a self-important kook but he is a great all-round performer.
Again though, like A.I, though the effects are superlative there are severe flaws in the logic of the major plot device that drive the story forward.
Also like A.I it barely needs to credit the original story by Philip K. Dick because it has been "improved" or "developed" to make a full-length film out of it. For example, in the story, the main character is balding and overweight; hardly describes Tom Cruise (who just refuses to age).
The pace and special effects and cinematography and acting are all very good, as usual its the screen-adapters who let it down. If you are going to mess with an original piece of science fiction at least improve it, don't mire it down.
I won't go over the plot as I'm sure you can find that elsewhere, but ... SPOILER TIME
Three pale bald girls in a tank of water having psychic visions about possible future crimes? Are we watching science fiction or a paranormal epic? Because there is a big difference. And yes you can trace this flaw back to the original 1956 story but at least in the story there was so much more of an emphasis of these mutant "precogs" and their individual stories.
In the film they might as well be shaved primates in a lab waiting to be freed by animal liberationists. In the source there is much more about their back story (mutation due to the use of 50's-futuristic drugs) and they had different names (also one was male).
The three would have predictions, a computer analyzed the predictions looking for inconsistencies and when at least two of the accusations match that is the "majority report". They barely covered this angle in the film.
There are good and bad elements to this. It is watch-able but could have been better had the concepts in the story been explored more thoroughly rather than being discarded.