If you take it for granted...

Rating: 7/10 (13 October 2002)

As everybody knows the best way to prevent crime is to eliminate its social roots on the one hand and to educate individuals not to commit them on the other hand. Well but somewhere in the future someone in USA has discovered that the best way to do it is by foreseeing crimes to be committed and arrest their perpetrators before they commit them using for that purpose a trio of overgifted youngsters with powers to predict the future who are preserved like sardines in some kind of fluid. If you take this for granted you may enjoy and appreciate this movie a lot since it's made with the usual skilfulness Spielberg puts in everything he makes. It has substantial amounts of the usual ingredients: suspense, mystery, humanity, righteousness, good feelings, love, adventure and even small quantities of good humour all very well combined. And of course those special computer effects without which it seems no movie can be made these days. But if you are one of those so called bores who insist that a movie like any work of art must have some message to deliver which has to do with real men and women in real situations dealing with real problems of life that's Ok then go to your video club and fetch yourself a good classical movie and enjoy it comfortably at home. Oh anyway don't lose the final message of the movie. It's positive after all.