It made me want to run too!

Rating: 1/10 (3 July 2002)

Minority Report Directed by: Steven Spielberg Starring: Tom Cruise, Samantha Morton & Max Von Sydow
Mr. Spielberg wants us to think. He wants us to think about our future, and the consequences of what kind of society we will make for our children. So, he has done another sci-fi movie, following A.I. And, like A.I., it's based upon a sci-fi short story, not to say that this is a short movie.
Warning *Spoilers*
This is a movie about the future, the year 2054. It's also about predicting the future where human society is so ravaged by murders that they will resort to anything to reduce (or eliminate) these hideous crimes. Will they do anything? Sadly, yes. They resort to taking those who have the ability to see the future, precognitive mutants, and tap into their minds. Once the `Pre-Crime' police are able to determine who will be murdered and who will do it, they set about arresting the guilty person before the crime is committed. A fascinating premise, to the say the least. However, this brings up some interesting moral and legal questions. Are there some flaws in this system? If it doesn't work perfectly, will it have to be scrapped? What happens when one of the Pre-Crime policemen, John Anderton (Tom Cruise), finds out he is going to murder someone? Well, we don't get any good answers to the first two questions, but we do for the last one. And, the answer is  he runs  and runs  and runs. This is where the movie gets bogged down. It resorts to chase scenes, improbable escapes, stupid visual effects, and one slip of the tongue that catches the guilty party.
But, that wasn't the worst part of it. The word that really describes it is  nauseating. There is some nauseating humor, some nauseating attempts to make us care, some nauseating plot twists, some nauseating acting, it was nauseatingly long (2 ½ hours), and finally, and regrettably,  a nauseating wrap-up to make us feel good at the end. And, as a result, it didn't make me think as much as it made me want to be like John Anderton and run  I wanted to run out of the theater and to the bathroom and get  you know  sick.