Spielberg does his job

Rating: 8/10 (9 November 2015)

Despite it's length of two-and-a-half hours the movie is never boring but smashing good and it has all what you would expect from Hollywood. Cracking effects, solid cast and a neat story. The film is based on a short-story by Philip K. Dick (just as Blade Runner), so we are talking sci-fi but not only that - it also is a breathtaking crime-thriller.
John Anderton (Tom Cruise), a junkie cop working at Pre-crime preventing murders from happening, has mysteriously lost his son and divorced his wife (Kathryn Morris). His life is all about work, drugs and memories until the Pre-cogs (capable of predicting the future) anticipate a murder that will change his life.
The director Steven Spielberg – the king of sci-fi – used a lot of futuristic gadgets and machines in a really brilliant way. It is realistic because these high-tech gadgets are about to become real before 2054.
Janusz Kaminski, his cinematographer for many films, wanted to create a dirty, grainy and a bleak look and he succeeded.
But this is not just a special effects and a sci-fi movie. The acting, the characters they are well drawn and all are supremely played by the cast. A striking Tom Cruise and a spectacular Samantha Morton. Agatha is the hardest character to portray in the movie and it is great to watch Samantha Morton acting her.
I highly recommend you to watch the movie if you like Spielberg making sci-fi.
8/10