Why, why, why....?

Rating: 3/10 (12 April 2003)

To be fair, I do not like Tom Cruise as an actor. Pretentious Hollywood trying to do another "formula" movie is an insult to anyone with more than a couple of brain cells at their disposal; that being said, I was waiting for a homogenized AOL like - "Here's your movie!" to jump out at me when I put the DVD in the player and sat down to watch Minority Report.
As an aside, Spielberg has made some great movies. That does not translate into "Everything Spielberg touches is gold"; with Minority report he wound up with lead... and a big fat movie check.
The premise of this film deals with a potential future without really explaining how and why we got there. Crime in D.C.?? No kidding there's crime in D.C.! (In the ghetto and on Capitol Hill... what else is new..??) Are we to believe that some tweaked out vegetables lying in a hot tub mystically carving up croquet balls are the answer here? Perhaps my bias is really showing through...
Minority Report is a self indulgent formulated movie that is not entertaining. It is far too long, and far too complicated; (even for the high brow folks...)