Not Quite The Home Run I Was Expecting

Rating: 7/10 (11 October 2017)

Continuing my plan to watch every Tom Cruise movie in order, I come to Minority Report (200
Plot In A Paragraph: In the year 2054, a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer (Cruise) from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.
Cruise teaming up with Steven Spielberg should have been a home run for the pair, but it just misses the mark for me. I remember really liking this movie, but for some reason I have never cared to revisit it. I struggled through it this time, and I considered turning it off more than once. My main problem was I remembered two things about the movie, the scene where his child goes missing and the ending.
Although there is lots of special effects, the movie does not rely on them!! Instead it's story and characters that are paramount. Spielberg is a master and he really knows how to work a viewer, and get us invested in a character .
Cruise is pretty solid here, despite being in action cruise mode, he still gets to do some dramatic acting. Max Von Sydow does what Max Von Sydow does, Neal McDonough offers solid support as he always does and Colin Farrell is a really annoying when he is chewing!! I HATE noise eaters.
Minority Report grossed $132 million at the domestic box office to end 2001 the 17th highest grossing movie of the year. Not what people would have being expecting from A Spielberg/Cruise collaboration.