Eh...not all that good

Rating: 6/10 (6 July 2002)

Tom Cruise will be known for his cocky, grinning characters in Mission: Impossible, A Few Good Men, and Top Gun--thus excluding him from the list of great character actors. Steven Spielberg will be best known for his action/dramas such as Indiana Jones, Jaws, and Jurassic Park. Unfortunately, their venture together, "MINORITY REPORT", comes across as nothing particularly new or fresh. It lacks both the drama of Spielberg's 80s movies and the tension of his war and horror films. Cruise is once again Ethan Hunt evading the bad guys in an story looking like a hodgepodge of Blade Runner, A Clockwork Orange, and the Matrix. The ability to sin is one of mankind's biggest question marks as to whether denying it will cause a lack of the feeling of being human. By removing it as shown in the movie, as we learned in "Clockwork", society loses much of its power. But the plot of the movie becomes so complicated (and complex) that it becomes--more or less--Mission: Impossible with Indiana Jones set in 2054 with an annoying blueish hue to the film. The story was too long and had enough material in it for two movies--but I guess Spielberg doesn't want to worry about the success of MINORITY REPORT II.