The best sci-fi film since...A.I.

Rating: 10/10 (26 June 2002)

Let me warn you that A.I. was my favorite film last year. It is still early but this film could very well find itself as my pick for best film of 2002. A.I. is deeply felt. Minority Report is deeply thought. It has a better plot than the classic Bladerunner and the look is just as spectacular. I won't say that is a better film than Bladerunner (yet). Spielberg has done it again by bringing some very hard edges to his style. The world's all-time best director has left warm and fuzzy far behind. His screenwriters have done a great job at staying true to Phillip K. Dick's mind-bending prose. This a plot driven movie with some very cool performances especially in the supporting (and cameo) roles. Tom Cruise is fine as the hunter turned hunted. However Samantha Morton had the most difficult job to pull off as a future telling savant and she definitely should be remembered at Oscar time. Steven Spielberg has rocketed into adulthood since Schindler's List. I still love CE3K, E.T. and Raiders, but Minority joins, Ryan and A.I. as very daring cinema that refuses a safety net. The gadgets and the the eye-candy are less obvious than A.I. but every bit as fantastic. This is a great detective story brilliantly told 52 years from now. If you like Phillip K. Dick and Spielberg rush out to see this movie, but bring your brain. I'm in awe.