Intelligent movie on first sight but...(SPOILERS !!!)

Rating: 6/10 (9 October 2002)

Minority Report(MR) reminded me very much of Blade Runner(BR), a movie that I always "wanted" to like but always fell asleep watching it. MR is more entertaining than BR but less than A.I., Spielberg´s last film. I want to point out a "major" plot hole though that brings down the whole concept of the movie and will keep me from watching it again. SPOILER! Apparently, Director Burgess framed Anderton (Cruise) and set up everything so Anderton could fulfill is future and in order to get rid of a possible threat to his life work. At first sight it looks all so logical. Everything has been prepared, the poor guy has been payed for getting himself killed, photos have been arranged and you think "now it makes sense!". Problem is, that it is the most illogical plot ever conceived. It is not even the typical "time travel paradox", it is just plain stupid. Just ask yourself, how could Burgess have known about and planned all this in the past before ever seeing the "precog"-vision for himself that he could not see before he planned the set-up in the first place? How could he know where to send the "to-be killed" guy? How could he know where Anderton would go, what he would do? He just could not! A time paradox I could have lived with would have been that Burgess traveled to the future saw the vision and than arranged everything from the past. I can´t understand why no movie critic seemed to have discovered this major flaw!