One of Spielberg's best

Rating: 10/10 (14 July 2002)

Minority Report gives us everything we want in a futuristic thriller: it's full of hundreds of details that keep our minds churning, twists and turns that keep us on the edge of our seat, speculations about life fifty years from now, and of course those great moral questions that leave us thinking long after the movie has ended. The film has a dark, Matrix-esque tone, but the bits of comedy are all the funnier amidst the gloom. The movie was twice as rewarding in the theater, where the whole audience gasps and jumps together. At one point I looked down my row and everyone was covering their eyes (the film gets a little gruesome). Besides giving us an intricate plot about whether we are the masters of our own future, Spielberg crams the movie with detail, giving us a glimpse of 2054 Washington, D.C. that mixes familiar, everyday icons with fascinating technological and cultural advances. Minority Report involves the viewer, keeping our minds working as we watch a masterpiece.