mediocre

Rating: 6/10 (19 October 2005)

In 2054, an organization called PreCrime has eradicated crime through the employment of "precogs", a group of people who see crimes before they happen, allowing the police to arrest the perpetrators before the crimes happen. As a result, there has not been a murder in Washington, DC, six years. But what if one of the people working at PreCrime was charged with murder? That's the premise of "Minority Report". Tom Cruise plays PreCrime employee John Anderton, suddenly charged with committing a future crime. Steven Spielberg's direction is good as always, but the movie suffers a little. Don't get me wrong; it's a good concept for a movie, and the idea of an organization being able to go after anyone seemed like an important topic after September 11, 2001. But the movie seems full of itself. Still, this is one to check out, if only to see how Spielberg does it (although he and Cruise did a much better collaboration with "War of the Worlds").