A new "Blade Runner"

Rating: 10/10 (17 July 2002)

"Minority Report" is not only a new "Blade Runner"; it also surpasses its predecessor. It shouldn't surprise you that also this one is based on a story by Philip K. Dick, thoughtful as it is.
Though the gloomy atmosphere is gone, there still linger an uneasiness. The three oracles, who are kept asleep with drugs and left to float in a tank to foresee violence of the future, who are they? Is it alright for a society, that calls itself humane and that wants to prevent crime, to do that by sentencing three people to a life in coma? Do we at all want to know the future?
"Minority Report" is an action thriller, a crime story and, at times, a comedy. But, as good SF, it is also philosophing over the future, the evolution of society and the eternal question: Are there discoveries and inventions we should avoid, though we are able to make them?
If you like "Minority Report", you might also want to consider watching "Total Recall" and "Gattaca" (of which the first is based on yet another story by Philip K. Dick).