Special only in effects, full of holes

Rating: 6/10 (25 September 2002)

(Some spoiler info)
I walked out of the theater thinking not about Blade Runner, but the Fugitive. The point of it is to follow our main character through this whole "I'm innocent" ride until we finally find out who the rat is. Guess who wins the day, Tom Cruise or the bad guy?
Yes, this has special effects bettering 19 year old Blade Runner. You want eye candy, pick up this and Episode II on DVD, more power to you.

Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg, the actor and director dream team do well enough with what they're given, but frankly the writing is full of holes. Why would the pre-cogs have a premonition that Anderton was planning to kill Crow? Wouldn't they have seen it as a crime of passion? Had Anderton found out about Crow ahead of time, would he have actually PLANNED to kill him? How exactly could you set somebody up to commit pre-meditated murder who knows that is impossible to premeditate a murder? How come no good examples of a minority report are shown? The drowning scenario was a works-as-design bug, the minority report problem would imply somebody innocent was convicted before they had a chance to (not) act. Never dealt with. Also the philosophical implications are all implied and not dealt with by the movie. Is it ethical to keep the pre-cogs in this state to prevent horrible crime? Is it ethical to prevent crime that removes the possibility of free will? Well to answer these questions, we will have Tom Cruise give a summary judgement at end of movie, till then hold on to your hats and enjoy the ride.