Great movie.

Rating: 8/10 (20 November 2005)

Great movie. Even if I have the feeling it could've been even better..
It's a great movie. To begin with, I think it's impossible for someone not to acknowledge how awesome the story behind it is, written by such a gifted mind as Philip K. Dick. Maybe that's the reason the motion picture cannot get a 10/10 rating. How could anybody possibly direct a movie who lives up to this story's potential? (One could argue that Riddley Scott did this once, creating perhaps the best sci-fi movie ever, out of Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", but that's another story).
One has to admit that Spielberg does his best in order to direct such a story. He's careful so as to keep a good pace, not exaggerating, not extracting you from the story with useless futuristic fx, the acting is good, with some of the secondary roles being even better than the movie's star -Tom Cruise- and the story goes on very well, giving you the opportunity to contemplate at its every step: "Is this justice?", "Could this be a set up?", or even posing oneself harder, actual philosophical questions, when watching Agatha asking: "Is it now?", while watching closely the movie as the plot moves on.
The ending was unexpected enough and it all began to make sense in an excellent way, proving once again how great the story was. The very last moments (let's not disclose anything more here) though, were more optimistic than what I would have possibly liked, leading to an unnecessary sort of happy-ending.
Overall: great. But it could have been the movie of the decade.