A few steps short of perfect, but a good movie

Rating: 10/10 (30 September 2002)

First off, everyone should stop mentioning Blade Runner, cause other than Phillip K. Dick's name, there is nothing similar about these two films. Blade Runner is the most overrated and worthless piece of trash. I can't believe some people rip AI for being "boring" and "sappy" yet praise BR let alone stomach it. Simply put: The FX were great for its time, Harrison and Sean Young were HUGE miscasts along with a stupid script.
Having said that, I will review Minority Report as this is its page. *SPOILERS AHEAD*
I really enjoyed this movie until the ending....well, the second ending. I understand Spielberg was a huge fan and friend of Kubrick, but someone should tell him his storytelling is by far superior to the late Kubrick. Furthermore, he imitated the WORST quality of Kubrick: dragging on the ending 30 minutes longer than necessary.
From begining to end, the film has a firm grasp of your attention. Though we know what scene we will come to at the end (due to the premonition of the precogs), when we arrive, there's a climactic surprise waiting. Now for me, this is where the movie PEAKS. After Tom Cruise makes his decision, the movie should start to wrap it up, and come to a close. Instead, there's a gratuitous plot twist where the guy isn't who he says he is, and Cruise goes on another wild goose chase for 30 minutes to find out his friend and mentor had set him up. Now even if LA Confidential and a handful of other films hadn't already used this exact twist, it would still be unnecessary for this film. It would be so much sweeter had the man actually been the murderer, and the pre-cogs premonition itself is what led Tom Cruise to this scenario where he would be given the opportunity to find closure with his dark past, and the choice on how he would do it.
A very good movie, which coulda been great had the writers known that a little less woulda been so much more to the story.
8.5/10