Minority Report gets a A+

Rating: 10/10 (26 December 2013)

When people go to the movies, they go with a lot of emotion build up inside of them. Those emotions can be happy, sad, angry or even excitement. Steven Spielberg is particularly one of the best movie director out there in Hollywood today. He can make movies the way movies were meant to be made. He makes movies that are filled with wonder, magic, and even thrills. But, in this science-fiction thriller made by Spielberg, those emotions are obvious to the audience. In Minority Report, Tom Cruise plays John Anderton, the chief of Washington D.C. PreCrime police force. As the movie opens, Anderton and his fellow colleagues witness an upcoming murder from a future killer, who's planning to commit a future crime. The way it works is that in 2054 A.D., PreCrime can stop a future criminal from having to commit a future crime. In other words, catch the criminal before he or she commits the crime. For the last six years, Washington D.C. has been murder-free because of PreCrime. Furthermore, the PreCogs that are used in this police unit can see visions of the future. There are three of them, each of which are stationed inside a pool of milk. These PreCogs have precognitive abilities to see their future murders. Everything seems to be okay for Anderton until one day he witnesses himself committing a future crime. Now, how did that happen? Anderton quickly tries to hide the footage and is forced to run from the law as he tries to dodge the police every which way he can. Colin Farrell plays Danny Witwer, an very risky Department of Justice agent in the PreCrime unit. Witwer and Anderton inexplicably creates a tension between themselves even at the beginning of Anderton's run from the law. Max Von Sydow plays the official of the PreCrime unit and is also Anderton's superior. He is also drawn into the investigation. Meanwhile, Witwer tries to replace Anderton's position by placing himself as the chief of the PreCrime police force. Most of the movie consists of Anderton trying to outrun the law by avoiding them at any costs. Some of the action sequences in Minority Report are very well-directed by Spielberg. One of my favorite out of all of them is when Anderton gets into a fight with Witwer inside a car factory. The storyline of Minority Report gets complicated, I think, because the movie wants us to solve this entire mystery behind all of the technology that this world has in store. But, there's more to that. The movie also deals with specific themes of mistaken identity and family relationships. We even see how Anderton deal with the pain and suffering throughout the movie with him feeding himself pills and medication. Even more specifically, we see a distinctive relationship between him and his son, who drowned in a swimming pool. The story of Minority Report was based off a short story by cult science-fiction author Phillip K. Dick. To me, Dick's other movie adaptations including Blade Runner and Total Recall were also very successful critically, but also holds a deeper meaning to the hardware. In both movies, you can see the everyday man being forced into a situation where technology affects their surroundings and themselves. The cinematography is absolutely well photographed with a bleached-colored tint. The look of the movie is fascinating to see and eye-popping to look at. Spielberg's vision of the future has never been more better than before. This is the second Steven Spielberg's movie to be set in the future during the early 2000's. His other sci-fi film, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, was also a very good looking movie. Minority Report is certainly one of the best movies of 2002. The feel and look of the movie makes it seems that Spielberg was actually making a tech-noir film, which he did. The one other criticism that I have about Minority Report is that this movie focuses more on everyday themes that affect our society. That is significant to other science-fiction movies as well. But, the way Minority Report portrays those themes makes us wonder about the world we live in. This movie did come out in the early 2000's and according to my critical praise of this movie, I can only say this world is probably moving a lot more faster, even though technology is making several advantages and advances in our everyday lives. You can love it or you hate it, but you can't underestimate technology in the 21st century. The world is changing and we are too. ★★★★ 4 stars.