The Patriot Act...evovled.

Rating: 8/10 (17 June 2004)

One of the better science fiction films that has come out in the past few years, I was pleasantly surprised by Minority Report. The visuals are simply stunning and really get your imagination going. Not only are they nice to look at, they're fairly probable. I especially enjoyed the cars that drive themselves and take you up to your apartment or condo. The retina scanning cameras that are everywhere are also very realistic. The US government is already trying to implement biological modes of identification besides simply having you give your fingerprint at the DPS station to renew your driver's license. In all actuality, it's fairly feasible, even scary. Although the film takes place in the not so distant future, it's more like 1984.
Tom Cruise is a hit or miss for me, sometimes he's enjoyable and sometimes I want to crush his head in a vise. It always seems to be a toss up, but he does a decent job here. Colin Farrell outshines him though as the investigator of Pre-Crime who's trying to dig up dirt on Cruise's character, although his role is minimal. You really do hate him at first because of his character, which is a good sign that he did a nice job...even if he reminds you of a gibbon monkey or a man in a Gillette Mach 3 commercial. Let's just pray suspenders aren't around in the future. Overall a very entertaining film from Spielberg with some excellent action sequences and a few decent twists. But since it is Spielberg, you always know how the film will end. Nice and pretty, everything's fine and you get breakfast in bed while winning the lottery. If he didn't always end films the same way, it might make his movies more enjoyable as you wouldn't be able to predict what type of ending they'd have. That said though, extremely entertaining but could have used a less goody two shoes ending...still a grade A sci-fi film.