An engaging walk on the safely Spielbergian dark side.

Rating: 8/10 (14 September 2010)

Minority Report is director Steven Spielberg's sharpest, brawniest, most bustling entertainment since Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981). In the future, a police unit is dedicated to tracking down criminals before they commit their crimes. A cop (Tom Cruise) in the unit learns he himself is about to murder somebody.
The film is another to add to the cinema's long list of almost-great works derived from Philip K. Dick novels: though it can't finally get round miscasting of a blankly heroic Cruise in the lead role, yet Spielberg displays tremendous technical mastery, and enough grasp of human frailty, to make this enthralling science-fiction.