A huge, unfulfilling lump of cheese.

Rating: 2/10 (13 July 2002)

I've been had. I didn't fancy Minority Report in the first place. I don't like Cruise in his goofy action man mode, but the good reviews sucked me in and off I went. What a cheesy, cliched piece of garbage. Notwithstanding a few eyebrow-raising special effects, Spielberg's attempt at informing us that we're all in control of our own destiny is spoiled by one dimensional characters and a very predictable plot. All the caricatures are there:- the geeky nerd with a perm wearing shorts and a flowery shirt, the white-collared bad guy, the cute kid with a bowl haircut (you just want to slap), and Cruise getting serious. Even the tagline, "Everybody Runs" was clearly just a promotional after thought, as John Anderton (Cruise) is the only pre-crime suspect that runs, and the phrase is embarrassingly thrown into the godawful script once or twice. A bad film (and in England, bad means bad, not good).