Over-rated

Rating: Null/10 (27 August 2002)

My expectation level was high before this one - but all I can say is what on earth was all the fuss about? It's okay - has some interesting scenes/ ideas. But yet again it was let down by a poor script and some gigantic logic flaws that I just can't suspend my disbelief for.
It's funny how Ill glibly accept that it is possible to see into the future, but - as a for instance - when Cruise returns to the police HQ and walses in through a back entrance one door away from the Precogs and use his 'old eyes' to fool the 'security' system - I nearly choked on my popcorn. Since Cruise has already been marked as a pre-murderer at that stage, are we being asked to imagine that his 'access' records haven't been removed from the system? Come on ?!!! Are we idiots ?
And as a final straw we realise at the end of the movie (and yes SPOILER ALERT) that the baddy (who is guessable from reel minus several thousand....) could have simply lured his victim to somewhere outside the Precogs 'range' rather than rig up an extremely complicated scene just to fool them. Unfortunately the entire motivation of the plot is based around this act/ stupidity so it is very hard not to get extremely browned off with this film.
As a final comment I thought that the movie lacked humanity. THe treatment of the Precogs was hideous and immoral - but no one passed comment or even cared. Even their attendant was clearly abusing them. I found this very distasteful and completely unexplained.
Of course going Nationwide with just 3 precogs was always going to be interesting. How exactly would they cope with the additional workload of the entire country ? They were a one off experiment remember....
I will ask again. Does anyone ever sit down and QA the logic in movies? If anyone in the industry is listening - you guys need some major league help on the old plot logic thing. I happily offer my services.