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Rating: Null/10 (29 June 2002)

A film that almost appears as another product of Speilberg's Kubrickian
phase - still lasting after Artificial Intelligence. At the same time
it incorporates suspense, plot twists. I'm not one who's gonna go on
about how illogical this film's futurisms possibly may be - 'cause I
don't know how to write a screenplay. I will say that you will be
asking your self, throughout - how are the precogs so skillful? Whether
or not they have a right to leave their bathtub - why are they in a
bathtub? Why is it that there are still old fashioned garbage shoots in
a future that's so high-tech, we can see the thoughts of precogs on a
video screen. Hey, films that deal with the space time continuum are
always gonna be eating away at your brain - especially when it is used
as a vehicle for the movie's climax.
Let's see how many product placements we can count in this movie. 1.
Pepsi 2. Aquafina 3. Reebok 4. Nokia. 5. Gap. Most of them can be
spotted in the mall or the tunnel scenes.
There are some humorously odd scenes, one of which has Tom eating a
moldy sandwich when he is blind. The scene comes off as being in there
simply as an audience pleaser. Funniest scene: Cruise's character's eyes
identified as a Japanese man's.
Where this movie succeeds - take note that I never said it didn't - is
in Cruise's performance. We see him break down more than once. He
doesn't come off as simply a superstud with a trendy haircut - a la
M.I.2, Magnol