Looks like I'M in the minority here...

Rating: 6/10 (21 June 2020)

Based on the mostly positive reviews for this, it looks like I'm in the minority here (wink), because I don't think that this film quite worked the way it should have, or the way it could have. It's quite rare that I leave a moviegoing experience feeling dissatisfied, but I think that the movie set high expectations with a very cool premise, but then lost it in a mess. I can break down my thoughts into two categories:

1. Plot
The notion of "precrime" is pretty slick, and I don't mind that the first 20 minutes of the movie spend time explaining and demonstrating it. But it sets rules and guidelines that are ultimately broken by the end, leaving me quite confused as to why I should buy into these plot points in the first place. I don't really find myself feeling like they are plot holes, but more that the premise becomes loose and messy. To be reductive, in a movie where beings are predicting the future, there really shouldn't be too many surprises or plot twists, right?
2. Tone
This is what stuck out to me first. This movie plays it pretty straight, and doesn't have comic relief characters (like Goldblum in "Jurassic Park). So when the first big fight scene breaks out, the tone shifts and things start to get quite silly (bumping a breakfast table, interrupting a student practicing saxophone), and then all of a sudden it feels like "Men in Black." I welcome moments of levity, but the ones here did not feel earned. Any cheerful or "funny" moments really stuck out from the rest of the film.
I won't dock it any points for weird SFX or anything, even if I think that the "conducting" while using touchscreens looks super forced and unnatural.
Ultimately, its 145-minute runtime allows it to explore more plot twists. The movie doesn't necessarily feel long or slow, but it does have a moment towards the end where it felt like it should have ended. I think the script was trying to do way too much, and resulted in having four separate stories that barely dovetail gracefully.
I don't feel inclined to give Spielberg or a Williams much credit here. I think there are some cool sci-fi moments, and some good performances (though I don't think that anyone delivers a Top-5 performance here), and that's why I feel like a 6/10 rating is appropriate.