Solid entertaining sci-fi film.

Rating: Null/10 (11 August 2002)

Well I gave in to seeing this movie in the theater. I ignored the umpteen billion trailers I saw for it, and definately ignored the hype of it being a Cruise/Speilberg collaberation. Why would I want to avoid Tom Cruise in an action film? Three words: Mission Impossible 2.
But after the movie came out, and I saw all the good critical reviews of the picture, I went to see it to cure my summer boredom, and I am glad I saw it in the theater.
The story is entertaining enough, in an exaggerated near future, a unit of people called Precrime have used psychics to predict and eliminate all crime in Washington D.C. (which already makes it fiction, nothing short of nuclear war could clean up D.C.). Cruise, of course is the head and star of the operation (just once couldn't he be a janitor in the big goverment operation?) until one of the "Precogs" (the psychics) envisions him murdering a person. The wild goose chase ensues.
All of the action was very entertaining, the gadgets and gizmos were fun to watch and the world that unfolded was visually pleasing. My complaint is the fight between Cruise and Colin Ferrell. There were too many camera changes, so many that I could hardly tell what was going on in the fight. Of course this is to be expected, no American director can direct a fight scene well (watch some Jackie Chan films Speilberg, it's really not that hard). The acting was very convincing I especially liked Samantha Morton's character. For some reason it reminded me of Milla Jovovich's role in The Fifth Element.
All in all I really recommend this film. I will say that it should have been rated R, especially for all the stuff with the detached eyeballs (you'll have to see it to get that). This is a very good film by Speilberg, I hope he continues to make films as good as this.