Minority Report (2002)
Average Rating: 8/10
Reviews Counted: 227
Fresh: 208 | Rotten: 19
Thought-provoking and visceral, Steven Spielberg successfully combines high concept ideas and high octane action in this fast and febrile sci-fi thriller.
Average Rating: 7.8/10
Critic Reviews: 41
Fresh: 36 | Rotten: 5
Thought-provoking and visceral, Steven Spielberg successfully combines high concept ideas and high octane action in this fast and febrile sci-fi thriller.
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Based on a short story by the late Philip K. Dick, this science fiction-thriller reflects the writer's familiar preoccupation with themes of concealed identity and mind control. Tom Cruise stars as John Anderton, a Washington, D.C. detective in the year 2054. Anderton works for "Precrime," a special unit of the police department that arrests murderers before they have committed the actual crime. Precrime bases its work on the visions of three psychics or "precogs" whose prophecies of future
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Cast
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Tom Cruise
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Colin Farrell
Danny Witwer -
Samantha Morton
Agatha -
Max von Sydow
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Lois Smith
Dr. Iris Hineman -
Peter Stormare
Dr. Solomon Eddie -
Tim Blake Nelson
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Steve Harris
Jad -
Kathryn Morris
Lara Clarke -
Mike Binder
Leo Crow -
Daniel London
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Spencer Treat Clark
Sean at nine -
Neal McDonough
Fletcher -
Jessica Capshaw
Evanna -
Patrick Kilpatrick
Knott -
Jessica Harper
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Ashley Crow
Sarah Marks -
Arye Gross
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Jason Antoon
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All Critics (228) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (214) | Rotten (19) | DVD (45)
A highly effective thriller whose futuristic panoramas rival those of A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
Top CriticThe fashionably fussy, funky veneer may convince some that the film's serious, but it's finally another chase pic, murky in detail, muddled in ideology and strangely predictable in dramatic thrust.
The director creates a vision of the future that's richly detailed and fascinating.
My own minority report is that it stinks.
Final Report: Good, yes; great, no.
Shallow, noisy and pretentious.
The movie's combination of old and new influences energizes its believable futuristic elements.
Not simply Steven Spielberg's most prescient sci-fi work but also one of his finest.
Violent sci-fi detective movie isn't for kids.
Vigorously entertaining and tremendously weird, "Minority Report" feels like a vintage Action Comics adventure spiked with acid. It's an uncommonly melancholy blockbuster about demons ruthlessly determining our fate even as we relentlessly flee them.
One of the few films I've seen so far this year that I would recommend and it is one to see on the big screen.
While the way in which Minority Report presents these ideas makes them far more incredible and fantastical, it's their truth...that turns the film into something far more dark and sinister.
It's fun, it's exciting, it's shrewd, and it may even be--a scary thought--prescient. (Blu-ray Edition)
...a stylish, thoughtful, and thought-provoking future-noir thriller.
This has to be one of Spielberg's best ever...
The most fun a Spielberg film has been for a long while.
The most exciting piece of work Spielberg has delivered in ages.
It is exciting to watch a director who is in such complete control of storytelling and vision.
A roller coaster ride with an unusual amount of grit.
Hugely ambitious and wildly successful in parts, only a tricky third act trips up a master director clearly enjoying himself in virgin territory. Nonetheless this stands as the best future noir since Blade Runner.
Despite its moldy story twists, this Steven Spielberg spectacular ranks as the best thing he's done since the Indiana Jones films...
If you enjoyed Cruise's Mission: Impossible, multiply it by five!
Audience Reviews for Minority Report
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- Danny Witwer: Science has stolen most of our miracles.
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- Director Lamar Burgess: Shh. Do you know what I hear? Nothing. No footsteps up the stairs, no hovercraft out the window, no clickety-click of little spiders. Do you know why I can't hear any of those things, Danny? Because right now, the precogs can't see a thing.
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- Officer John Anderton: Everybody runs.
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- Director Lamar Burgess: My father once told me, 'We don't choose the things we believe in; they choose us.'
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- Officer John Anderton: [voiceover] In 2054, the six-year Precrime experiment was abandoned. All prisoners were unconditionally pardoned and released, though police departments kept watch on many of them for years to come. Agatha and the twins were transferred to an undisclosed location, a place where they could find relief from their gifts. A place where they could live out their lives in peace.
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- Dr. Iris Hineman: The Precogs are never wrong. But, occasionally... they do disagree.
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Those brilliant moments, which are mostly well made action set pieces, are mostly overshadowed by silly and banal comedic moments and messy screenplay that loses its focus too many times. While Minority report might look and sound great it still is not even nearly on the same level with his best films like A.I. or even with War of the Worlds, which was much more focused as a film.
There are also moments in Minority Report that feel unnecessarily elongated when it comes to a plot and the final act feels way too overlong for its own good. Spielberg manages visually to show us fascinating and scary vision of near future with amounts of paranoia and mind control, but he cannot breath real life into his film that would make it fly.
Spielberg proves that he surely can direct a good and entertaining set piece but he also needs a well made sceenplay which writers Jon Cohen and Scott Frank cannot deliver. Minority Report is grim, too complex for its own good and lacks the true spirit of the best films of Spielberg. It does have strenghts but mostly Minority Report is a missed opportunity.