Spielberg at his best

Rating: 8/10 (16 May 2005)

Would you like to live in a world in which formal, procedural justice is of no value anymore? Where so-called Precogs tell the police department when and where a crime might/will happen so that troops can be send out to arrest the criminal-in-spe before he or she has committed the crime? This is an ugly world as justice depends upon dubious visions, not on the opinion of a judge, a trial jury based on legally founded proofes. The old fundament of criminal law - IN DUBIO PRO REO - is dismantled here.
What is left is a world where anybody can become the victim of these "visions", without being able to find out if he'll ever come in the situation to do what he's alredy punished for.
PHIL K. DICK's stories are splendid sci-fi-tales that show us where our existing civilizations with their well-balanced systems might be woundable, picks on one of these possible wound and reveals the nightmarish outcoming of certain "wrong developments".
The movie has not only a great main theme which is the loss of human dignity and fair trial in a world of tomorrow, it also features great "supporting pillars" as the value of family. It comes up with some very stylish set pieces, great action sequences as well as an unforgettable finale which makes your neck-hairs bristle. Deeply satisfying on all levels!