Steven Spielberg back on his game ....

Rating: Null/10 (22 June 2002)

The best baseball hitter ever swung at a ball and missed occasionally; you judge them by their batting averages. Steven Spielberg has a particularly high batting average, both commercially and artistically. I was very unhappy with his last film, AI: Artificial Intelligence -- not for anything wrong with Spielberg as a director, which he's always good at, but with the writing -- but Minority Report is Spielberg back on his game as one of our best.
Plot spoiler? You have got to be kidding. This is from a Philip K. Dick story and the plot is so complex and twisted that I couldn't spoil it for you if I tried. Previous films made from Dick stories include two of my favorites: Blade Runner and Total Recall. Dick was simply one of the best science-fiction writers ever and Minority Report reflects his genius.
Great writing, great casting, great acting, great directing, great visuals and special effects, and a great John Williams score. I feel like I'm at the Oscars thanking everyone and the orchestra is about to start playing me off.
Enough. If you like great science-fiction film-making, go see this. But take a No-Doze first: you're going to need to be awake to follow the plot and you don't want to get the caffeine from coffee or Diet Coke because it's 2-1/2 hours long.