Not the best Spielberg movie but still well worth watching

Rating: 7/10 (6 July 2011)

This script doesn't seem as solid as what Spielberg is usually working with. The effort to force the plot into a classic chase movie apparently demanded to ignore some smaller inconsistencies, especially the moral standpoint of the story was never really clear to me. Andertons swift change in motivation seemed odd and Burgess leaves without any clear statement. Appears quite a deal more as lazy scriptwriting then thought provoking.
Besides that Minority Report is still good cinema in terms of scope, detail and a decent portion of vision, presented with the outstanding quality Spielberg got us used to. Not to mention the smart action scenes and the general, pleasingly rapid pace of the movie. And though the storytelling might crumble a bit here and there at least there is a story well worth telling.
Shouldn't be an excuse, but scriptwriting mistakes like these are merely the minimum in most of the improbably successful, billion dollar productions that Hollywood has given us along the last decade. Re- watching this after movies like X-Men: First Class, Spiderman 3 or Inception makes me generally long for flicks as badly written as this one.