HUH?

Rating: 4/10 (30 June 2002)

This movie bugged me in more ways than one. For one thing, I think Spielberg is getting too much hype. It's like buying Stephen King books because his name is one them...some of them are pretty bad. Just because Steven Spielberg (can you hear the heralding trumpets and angels singing at the mere mention of his name?) directed this does not mean it is good...and it is not. For another, I truly didn't appreciate the amount of commercialized products he was shoving down my throat. I am really impressed that people think the Gap will still be around 50 years from now...
This movie has so many holes and flaws it is not funny. Trust me, after sitting through 140 minutes, I had plenty of time to think.
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I was so confused as to the plot. Anderton was getting set up because he found out about the Minority Report. BUT he only found out about it after he was set up... He knew there was something strange about Agatha's mother's death, but until he went to see the scary gardening Martha Stewart lady, he had no idea what the glitches in the system really meant, and this was when he was already on the run. AAAAAAHHH! How can this be? AND HOW CAN HE STILL USE HIS EYEBALLS TO GAIN ACCESS TO A SERIOUSLY GUARDED SECURITY BUILDING?????? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!
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The good thing about the movie was Tom Cruise. There is one moment of his Mirandizing a "killer" and his voice is so convincingly choked with emotion that I got the trembly lip going. I was impressed, but as far as the movie is concerned, I didn't buy it.
Yeah, yeah, suspend belief...it's a sci-fi...I gotcha, but if I am going to suspend belief...help me out a little bit.. To quote my good friend Yoda..."Do or Do not, there is no try".
By the way, Steven, I thought it was sweet to put your stepdaughter in the movie for like 3 lines. THANKS, DAD!