Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2311 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-10-13
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English, Swedish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 142 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Full of morally flawed characters, and shot in grainy desaturated colours, Steven Spielberg's Minority Report is futuristic film noir with a far-fetched B-movie plot that's so feverishly presented the audience never gets a chance to ponder its many improbabilities. Based on a short story by Philip K Dick, the film is set in the Orwellian near-future of 2054, where a trio of genetically modified "pre-cogs" warn of murders before they happen. In an SF twist on the classic Hitchcockian wrong-man scenario, Detective John Anderton (Tom Cruise) is the zealous precrime cop who is himself revealed as a future killer. Plot twists and red herrings drive the action forward, and complications abound, not least Anderton's crippling emotional state, his drug habit, his avuncular-yet-sinister boss (Max Von Sydow) and the ambitious FBI agent Witwer (Colin Farrell) snapping at his heels.

Though the film toys with the notion of free will in a deterministic universe, this is not so much a movie of grand ideas as forward-looking ones. Its depiction of a near-future filled with personalised advertising and intrusive security devices that relentlessly violate the right of anonymity is disturbingly believable. Ultimately, though, it's a chase movie and the innovative set-piece sequences reveal Spielberg's flair for staging action. As with A.I. before it, there's a nagging feeling that the all-too-neat resolution is a Spielbergian touch too far: the movie could satisfactorily have ended several minutes earlier. Although this is superior SF from one of Hollywood's greatest craftsmen, it would have been more in the spirit of Philip K Dick to leave a few tantalisingly untidy plot threads dangling. --Mark Walker

Synopsis
The science-fiction thriller MINORITY REPORT, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise, is based on a short story by renowned writer Philip K. Dick. In the year 2054, in Washington, D.C., murder has been eliminated thanks to Precrime, a program that uses the visions of three psychics, called Precogs (an abbreviation for precognitive thinkers), to arrest and imprison would-be murderers before they have a chance to kill. Tom Cruise plays John Anderton, a Precrime enforcer who believes in the system for his own personal reasons--years back his young son was abducted, and he has dealt with the loss by becoming a high-strung Precrime officer. The director of Precrime (Max von Sydow) is eager to take the program national, and feels threatened by an ambitious federal agent (Colin Farrell) who is bent on finding a flaw in the system. When Anderton finds himself accused of the future murder of a man he's never met, his faith in Precrime is instantly shaken. He goes on the run, and is trailed by the relentless Precrime police. In the tradition of BLADE RUNNER (also based on a Dick story), MINORITY REPORT is a dark, brooding vision of the future. Spielberg expertly mixes thrilling chase and suspense sequences (the best of which involves Anderton being pursued by eye-scanning mechanical spiders) and stunning special effects with a challenging look at society's willingness to sacrifice privacy and the notion of free will for convenience and security. MINORITY REPORT is a thought-provoking and exciting film that ranks with Spielberg's best.

Customer Reviews

Nothing Original
If you watched L.A. Confidential you wouldnt want to watch this one. They're almost same. Change the place,actors and add some science fiction you get minority report. I really think that's the end of the creative filmaking in Hollywood. Puzzling events trying to ponder the viewer who the real killer is. I bought this movie for the names T.C. and S.S but very disappointed at the end. Try Borat, it's best, very smart and real!

Awful
Dull dull dull. `Precogs' in a bath tub make predictions about crime. Cruise get implicated. He's more annoying than ever. Why couldnt they have caught and shot him? Sigh.

Oh.. My... God
Ok, so everyone agrees that Tom Cruise is a clinically insane midget with a cult fetish? And that he a awful one dimensional actor who ego is so overblown it needs the insidiously evil Scientologists to massage it on a regular basis? Right? Good.

Now onto the film itself; now I love sci-fi, so much so that I watched this film despite knowing that it starred the pint sized freak Cruise. Well I suppose if you have very low standards and dont mind a plot surrounding 4 people who lay in a big bathtub predicting the future, this film may appeal to you. But shock horror, one of the people taking a bath doesnt agree with the rest of them! Yawn. so Cruise has to save her blah di blah.

Bad idea, bad acting, bad bad Cruise. I'd rather watch the entire series of `Rome' all over again, than subject myself to this. Yes its that bad.