"Minority Report" could play a role in changing the future. You CAN choose.

Rating: 10/10 (25 June 2002)

"Minority Report" is the best Science Fiction Movie I have seen. It is one thing to produce a space opera type movie ("Star Wars" for example), but it is an entirely different level of film making to produce a film that believably presents precognition.
"Star Wars" was an amazing film; mainly because it told a simple story very well, and was the first science fiction film to have available high quality digital and other special effects AND the budget to pay for most of what the filmmaker wanted. Major changes could be made to the science fiction themes in "Star Wars" and it would still be essentially the same movie.
"Minority Report" is completely dependent on the idea of precognition used for preventive conviction. Change that and the film is an entirely different movie. "Minority Report" is both science fiction film set 50 years in our future AND a film set in the mental atmosphere of the last nine months. This movie is not light entertainment. It will make you think. It will scare you. It will provoke arguments. You will be glad you saw it.

"Minority Report" could also play a role in changing the future. You CAN choose.