best movie Spielberg has made in a long time

Rating: Null/10 (24 May 2003)

Quite a pleasant surprise. This is the best movie Spielberg has
made in a long time and it succeeds where AI miserably failed. In
this case the story is intriguing, performances believable, the set
designs convincing. The cinematography is beautiful, gritty and
desaturated. The expected Spielberg sentimentality is also very
much toned down, though not completely absent unfortunately. It
may loose momentum a bit towards the end, but that is a minor
problem. It is also nice to hear a John Williams score which is
more atonal and minimalistic. Franks script is a very good
adaptation of Dick´s short story, it keeps his tone and has nice
ideas added to the basic concept while not straying too far from it,
even though the final minute may seem a bit too upbeat. Everyone
involved seems to be in top form, very good work indeed.