A memorable action scene or two, but I found the story a bit lacking

Rating: 6/10 (17 December 2009)

This movie was okay, nothing really special. A Tom Cruise science fiction action/mystery/suspense that works on some levels, but not on levels concerning the story as I found it weak and full of holes. It is the future in this movie and there are some nice visuals and some stuff I can actually see happening. What I do not see happening is the whole seeing a murder before it happens and people who have not actually committed a crime being sent to some strange tanks for the rest of their lives. The opening kind of demonstration shows a murder that any lawyer could get a person a much lesser sentence for as it was a crime of passion and would likely draw a manslaughter charge at most. Well the lead guy on this squad of super cops who rely on psychics to find out who is going to commit murder before they occur is now on the run because the psychics have said is going to commit a murder. Well a nice initial chase scene occurs and there is a lot of cat and mouse that works nicely. Then there are scenes that make one think "what the heck is going on?" as the guy on the run gets his eyes replaced and plays pick the food. Yes, he has two choices of good sandwich bad sandwich and good milk bad milk. Strange plants that ensnare guests and a bunch of other just strange stuff more fitting for say an anime rather than a future that they are trying to present itself as realistic. It is nice to find out they culprit behind a bizarre murder case, but there are just too many strange moments for me to say this movie is all that good. It was watchable and somewhat enjoyable, but there just are not enough really cool scenes like that initial chase scene to make this a really good movie.