Minority Opinion on Minority Report

Rating: 2/10 (25 June 2002)

Melodrama with 1-dimensional characters, 0-dimensional politico-social message, cliched & preposterous action scenes.
How on earth did the U.S. in 50 years abandon its constitution and due process in favour of this Orwellian world? Of course one has to suspend disbelief enough to accept the oracles, but give me a break: shuffling criminals into some sort of tubes without so much as a trial? Spiders with unlimited search powers? How can anybody survive jumping off a futuristic freeway or having his head crashed through the floor of an apartment building? They don't revoke security clearance for suspected/convicted murderers? How did they manage to prevent *every* murder in 5 years when every apprehension we saw was a cliffhanger? Am I supposed to find any of the characters sympathetic? Animated plants? Eyeballs that roll like ping-pong balls? Farce. In-your face trademarks throughout. Of course the "big cheese" did it. Spielberg's worst by far.