Movie was so unlike Speilberg

Rating: Null/10 (6 August 2002)

Last night I went and saw Minority Report. Usually in Steven Speilberg films, Nazi storm troopers are the villains and are practically stick figures. Minority Report was a relief from Speilbergs tendency to over glamorize WWII. I find it unbelievable that I rank Minority Report equal to Truman Story and the In the Company of Men. Two of which are the greatest flicks out of America in the 1990's. Minority Report reminded me of the Restoration of Touch of Evil and a film noir update of The Fugitive. Minority Report harkens back to Hitchcock and even Tom Sellecks 1980's futuresque flick Run. When Tom Cruise was communicating with his late son via new technology, I saw fabric of Charlten Heston's Omega Man. Seeing technology become ubiquitious and human kind become subservient gives us a peek into Brave New World. If Minority Report was book written 50 years ago, it would rank as a classic. I cringe everytime I see Hollywood promoting a WWII movie. What we need to do now is see more movies where new technology is the avenue for multinationals bringing in a dictatorship. We need to warn this generation that if you forget your past, you repeat it. Literature is a visual. Movies like Minority Report are the visual that will act as an admonishment against complacency and narcism that ensconses the western world. We need more movies like Minority Report to galvanize us and make us aware what politicians and multinationals are doing now. Good job, Steven!