Minority Report is a good, solid mystery film.

Rating: 9/10 (26 December 2002)

SPOILERS AHEAD
Minority Report is a good, solid mystery film. When I first saw the trailers, I was convinced I knew what was going on...that it was, in fact a clone of the hero that had committed the murder. How wrong could I be? The film will keep you guessing until about the last twenty minutes or so, when it all becomes clear.
The special effects are decent enough, though I spotted one tiny error regarding the case numbers. When they first begin to look at the murder the hero is supposed to commit, it's assigned a number 1109. But when he's reviewing the images on the big "monitor" you can see the number 1108 at the top. 1108 being the murder they showed previously in order to set the scene and take the audience through how things worked.
One other minor gripe. The precogs can apparently tell who is being murdered and who is the murderer...they name names! But they can't tell where the murder is being committed? But then it gives the cops something to do, trying to figure out where a murder is being committed, I suppose.
A couple of minor bugs, though, in an otherwise great movie. Well worth a look if you are a fan of cop drama, scifi or just plain old mystery movies.
There are a number of people that don't get this movie, which is puzzling, since it really isn't anything more than a whodunnit set in the future. A very good whodunnit, which'll keeping you guessing for a long time, but still that's all it really is.
Funnily enough, those that don't get this, also don't get films like Vanilla Sky, which is another movie that keeps you wondering until the end. Could it be that Hollywood has successfully weaned people off intelligent movies and on to bland, action-oriented fare like Die Another Day? I hope not. But then, a friend recently saw The Two Towers and reported there were people in the audience who didn't understand the simple concept of flashbacks, which is pretty scary.
Anyway, watch it and judge for yourself.