Full of sound and fury, and signifying nothing

Rating: 4/10 (18 August 2002)

I can't believe that the film I saw was the same one that IMDBers have been giving such good ratings. While the special effects were excellent, they were often effects that made no sense, which is also true of the plot line. Two computers in the same small high-tech room more than 50 years in the future use removable media to communicate rather than being networked. Anderton (the greatly overrated Tom Cruise) could have simply hid out in the wilds for 36 hours and shown the warrant against him to be baseless rather than suffering an eye transplant and risk capture or worse to find the "minority report" on him. The "precog" Agatha, Anderton, and Burgess (Max von Sydow) all admit that individuals have a choice while the latter two also insist that the future crimes are predestined -- just one of many examples of the film defying its own logic. I could mention others, but some of the more egregious would be spoilers for those who do not heed my warning against seeing this film.