This Forgotten Movie from Spielberg is Rightfully Forgotten

Rating: 6/10 (18 October 2018)

So, Minority Report, a Spielberg film that came from the 2000s era. Here's the cold hard truth. No pretending, no illusions, no nostalgia blinding me this time. This movie, it sucks ass!
I'm sure it was praised when it came out, but this movie feels lousy. The reason I say that is the directing. The directing just feels so lacking. It seems that Spielberg wants to use the Phillip K Dick story to form an action thriller with complex themes but he never takes on a moral stance offered by the story and as such he doesn't deliver a story that has much meaning behind it. The movie should have taken a stance when it comes to whether we are free or unfree and stuck with it instead of trying to say both are possible. This movie leaves out the complexity of this subject matter and dumbs it down to the viewers by not exploring how Pre-Cog may be morally acceptable. In the original story by Phillip K Dick, Anderton kills a man to preserve Pre-Crime and keep the system intact since it would be the lesser of two evils. Unfortunately, this movie tries to give a very black and white scenario with big government vs little guy and therefore leaves out the complexity that made the story fantastic. It's just watered down to make way for another generic action movie.
Also, on a side note, the dialogue sounds like garbage! Almost every line is some pointless overdramatic philosophical rambling or insane techno-jargon that we just have to assume makes sense. It honestly reminded me of bad M Night Shyalaman writing.....I seriously mean that.
As for the action itself, it feels average. Nothing really stood out and though the CGI was okay it didn't seem that imaginative. Though the funniest scene was when that lady started beating the jetpack cop and Tom Cruise during that escape sequence. Tom Cruise is pretty much Tom Cruise, I cannot see him as anything else in this movie. There's just nothing remarkable about his character, it's as cliche as it can be. The girl he's with is like a boring version of Eleven from Stranger Things, and that is not a compliment. She's just empty.
It's really unsurprising why nobody remembers this movie. When one considers all the good movies Speilberg made before the 2000s and the massive successes they were, it makes me wonder why he didn't try to make anything remotely that awesome when it came to this movie. Minority Report but with Indiana Jones level action! How about that? Anything other than this. I feel like I listened to a bad philosophy lecture.
6/10 a disappointing flick.