Minority Report Reviews

Minority Report is exactly what the title indicates, a report.

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The 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.

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Minority Report aspires to more than mere mindlessness, but fails miserably, and as a result crystallizes nearly everything that I dislike about Spielberg's films.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Spielberg's most unpleasant and derivative film, a nasty, tired, predictable affair that makes Hook look comparable to Schindler's List.

| Original Score: 0/5

Cold, unmoving, and desperately in need of a beating heart and a soaring soul, Minority Report is one of the most depressing disappointments of the year.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

The action is fun, but the more you think about it, the slighter it feels and the more holes show.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

The two main women in this film make the Pre-Crime Unit possible, but don't benefit themselves. Guess the future isn't that much different. The guys are still having all the fun, while the girls either make that possible or sit by and watch.

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Spielberg is like a father who tells his kids scary bedtime stories but can't bear it if they have nightmares.

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Although...visually striking and slickly staged, it's also cold,grey, antiseptic and emotionally desiccated.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

Only the latest Spielberg film to work best as an analogy for his middle-late career.

| Original Score: 2/4

Minority Report is more humdrum than horrible. It isn't futuristic film noir; it's just everyday film beige.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Cold and scattered, Minority Report commands interest almost solely as an exercise in gorgeous visuals. That's not vintage Spielberg and that, finally, is minimally satisfying.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

As with A.I., Spielberg's admirable intent is to create a prescient, serious science-fiction movie. But neither A.I. nor this film comes close.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Shallow, noisy and pretentious.

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My own minority report is that it stinks.

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Spielberg apparently can't resist throwing in a cheerful, make-em-weep ending, which pretty much ruins the movie.

| Original Score: 3/5

Visually stunning and imaginative, this otherwise generic cop drama totally drops the ball when it comes to its most interesting and unique aspects of free will vs. pre-determination.

Full Review | Original Score: 6.5/10

Lacking a consistent view of his source material, Spielberg pulls out all the stops by attempting to roll three wildly different genres -- action-adventure, psychological thriller, and futuristic tone poem -- into one film.

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The movie's ponderousness is relieved only by Samantha Morton's uncanny portrayal of the psychic Agatha and by Lois Smith's turn as Dr. Hineman...

If Steven Spielberg is the heart of Minority Report, Tom Cruise is the muscle, Philip K. Dick is the brain and Stanley Kubrick is the spirit hanging over them.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

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