A Long-Winded Failure

Rating: 5/10 (17 December 2019)

It's been 17 years since I saw Minority Report in theatres. So immersed with it I was that I never felt a need or an urge to watch it again. Yet on a bored winter night I happened to catch it on cable and decided to revisit it since nothing else good was on.
Well, not much has changed. Everything I felt for it and experienced the first time around was reconfirmed, except it was even worse the second time. This movie just meanders and meanders around without ever delivering anything memorable other than some interesting futuristic tech shots, which even still, today, really surprisingly seem outdated and long surpassed. Could this be the first movie of its kind that decided not to edit itself down by at least 1 hour, which has been a long-running trend with pretentious Hollywood flicks as of late- the last two decades.
The movie is a failure because it had everything you would need to be great: Spielberg directing, Tom Cruise in the lead role, a very interesting premise and conflict, decent supporting acting and a relatively ambitious scope to it in a time when originality was still abundant in filmmaking (2002), but it just didn't live up to its potential. It's simply way too long, and even though it starts off pretty good, it definitely loses its steam and pinpoint focus in its runtime. The concept is great, but it just didn't deliver it well enough.
5/10