Great Technically Fails on Logic

Rating: 1/10 (7 October 2005)

Warning, Spoilers ahead.
O.K. I watched this movie over 50 times and I still can't make sense of the story. If I turn off my logic, then it is an enjoyable film.
Now let us see, why need a cop if you know the future you can prevent a crime from happening by just stopping ahead of time instead of actual arrest? For example I am planning to go to a shopping mall where a murderer is waiting to kill me. Police warned me weeks ahead of time so I changed my schedule. The police grabs the potential murderer telling him we have to fine you because you were planning to murder. If next time you think of doing this again, we will put you in jail. So you save prison costs. Now remember, these pre-cogs can predict events far into the future, not minutes or seconds, but the next day. How do I know that? The movie said so! They predicted events one day ahead while they were treated at the hospital.
The plots that really gets me sick is Agatha, if she is so psychic how come she won't tell John Anderton that Ann Lively is her mother and the police chief is the murderer. She should be able to tell can't she? Or she can't remember her mother? How can even John Anderton ever figure out Agatha is the daughter of Ann Lively? There is no part in the story that reveals that fact? O.K. let us be forgiving about Agatha and assume she knows nothing, she don't even know that the police chief murdered Ann Lively. Now how can that be? O.K. Echo. Well, why don't Agatha tell them those are not "echo" they are different. Why does Agatha even bothered working for pre-cog? What happens if she dies of heart attack, won't the entire pre-crime police be relying on one woman just a bit too much? Or do they have a low quality neroine in the works to make more of these "Agathas" and kill more innocent children. Sounds like a catch-22, kill more people to save more people? What a circular logic! Why won't Agatha file a misconduct to police department in censoring her on the account of her "minority report" and that the pre-cogs are fallible! What is wrong with Agatha? Why bother tell John Anderton's son, when he is already dead????? Is she so fallible, I mean super fallible, so fallible it makes me shame especially in the final seen when police head commit suicide, completely wrong! Now assuming that these pre-cogs have pretty good, as opposed to always perfect in prediction you can make use of their talents. Instead of arresting since you are uncertain a crime will take place because these silly pre-cogs are only 50% right, you can still get a crime reduction by 50% through prevention. How? Suppose a potential rapist which the pre-cog predicts will take place at Hyde Park on 3.00 p.m. They are only 50% correct. So the police goes to Hyde Park at 3.00 p.m. The rapist seeing that changes his mind and quit because the police warned him that he may rape someone so they slapped him with a record of warnings. That is enough to just make him think twice.
The other issues I have with this movie is what happens with your ID if you have no eyes. Remember the person who sell John Anderton clarity? He had no eyes. For me it seems the "chip" implant that the U.S. government currently proposing as part of the ID of all people in U.S. makes more sense than to use eyeball ID! Another silly analogies that I really hate in the movie is when John Anderton throws the wooden ball to the other end where the other guy from the Justice department receives and said something like "predetermination!" Well I would feign a throw a ball to Lt. John Anderton back and throw it in such a away that he can't catch him and I would yell back "free will!" What about free will? Didn't that element existed even before the final scenes when the pre-cogs made a terrible price by making the predictions wrong.
The other part that incensed me is where the police chief kills the son of John Anderton to "set him up" in some distance the future. It would have been much easier, assuming the head knows John Anderton could be a headache in the future by just transferring him to another division. Give him a good excuse, tell him his son may be kidnapped if he work for this unit! I mean this crime is way too elaborate! If Agatha truly hates to see the future she could make a wrong prediction on purpose and cause the pre-crime units to be closed for business. There is just a lot of loose holes in the story so many that I will just leave this for now. I mean where is the job satisfaction in lying on water all day and all night? Isn't that slavery or something? Wouldn't your body get swell or rot or something? I give 1 star for cool cars.