Tries hard, but in all the wrong places.

Rating: Null/10 (4 July 2002)

After a few hours of consideration, I don't think I like Minority Report. For starters, the plot is an almost identical re-working of The Fugitive, and that did it better. Also, the characters seem confused and perfunctory. It wants to be sci-fi, but gives up half-way through. It wants to be a (pre) murder mystery, but you care little about Anderton.
Sure, it looks and sounds good, but it reeks of formula and design, not intuition and ideas. I really wanted to enjoy this film but found myself putting the plot together long before the characters stopped running to think for a moment. On the other hand, it's the first film I've seen in a long while where the FX were given the chance to fall in to the background while the story took centre stage. It's taken ten years but FX seem to be maturing.
Spielberg might just be getting interesting again, but this film feels as if it should have had Harrison Ford in it. I had the same reactions to Minority Report as I did to Blade Runner, and any Kubrick film for that matter: admiration, indifference.