Spielberg experiments

Rating: 9/10 (2 September 2006)

Admit it. After Amistad you thought Spielberg was on the wane. After AI you thought he was finished and over the hill. I did. Turns out we were wrong. Turns out he was just honing his skills, experimenting with style and trying to drag himself away from the populist popcorn maker he'd turned himself into.
Minority Report is brilliant, brilliant film making. Some have said its Gilliamesque, but that's just the Philip K Dick element - this film has a style, grace, pace and vibrancy all of its own and it's a style we've not seen from Spielberg before. None of his tried and tested trademark shots, but a whole new slew of cinematic nuances that we may well come to view as the trademark shots of his brilliant rebirth. Exciting, thrilling, thought provoking, passionate and emotional - this film is everything AI wasn't. God bless Spielberg.