Minor Report of "Minority Report"

Rating: Null/10 (24 December 2002)

I've never struggled as hard through a movie as Spielberg's "AI", but "Minority Report" is so far out, I wonder if Spielberg has had a nervous breakdown or is off his Paxil. Used to, when a person didn't understand a movie, the consensus was that it must be brilliant. One had to read something deep into it or find the inner truth. In my opinion, just as "AI", the truth is this movie is boring. The supporting cast of Colin Farrell and Steve Davis is about the only good thing in the film. With all the special effects presented this year...a la "Lord of the Rings", "Star Wars II", "Harry Potter", etc. was "arm-waving" the only convention Spielberg could come up with to create Cruise's imagery of the future? It looked ridiculous.
Cruise makes a fortune choosing bad scripts, substituting action and screaming scenes for acting. He's no actor...he's a screamer who likes to play anger, as does Denzel Washington and Dylan McDermott.
I'm certain that Cruise never saw a TV episode of "Mission Impossible" where a lot of characters with specific talents teamed together to form a team...BUT NOT! Cruise has to be the whole team with NO help!! Let's see..."Mission Impossible" One and Two..."Eyes Wide Shut", "Magnolia", and now this piece of schlock..."Minority Report". I rushed to my video store the day that it was put on sale and bought it. The next night, I went on ebay and saw dozens of idiots, such as I, putting their used copies of "MR" on sale for five bucks. Yeah, I sold mine too.
Tom, you need a new agent and Steve, you need a new script reader. You're both WAY OFF BASE! Get back to the things you do best and forget these "message" pictures where no one gets the message.