Minority Report Movie Review:


When you put Tom Cruise in a futuristic sci fi action thriller directed by Steven Spielberg, you expect an amazing and exciting time at the movies. I said you expect it that doesn’t mean you get it. This time unfortunately, the result is a big underachievement.

The movie I am talking about is Minority Report where Cruise plays Chief John Anderton of the elite Pre-Crime Unit in the year 2054. This specialized unit consisting in its core of three “Pre-Cogs” psychics who can foretell a crime before it happens. It is Anderton’s job to use the information the cogs provide him to catch the criminals before their crimes occur.

Everything is working just perfectly until Anderton becomes a suspect who is supposed to kill somebody in less than 36 hours. It becomes Anderton job to escape capture by his own men and prove that the supposed infallible system is corruptible and has been manipulated.

Although Spielberg is known for making great action pictures, here he falls asleep at the wheel. There is very little excitement or suspense throughout. Here and there you see moments of inspiration wasted and misused that could of really been exhilarating.

The film also has a lot dreamy looking scenes mixed with a lot of bleached grainy shots that don’t work. The cast starting with Cruise is not given enough good material to make anyone interesting. You just don’t care about them. It becomes an expensive experiment in miscasting gone bad.

Even the music by John Williams is substandard and not effective in enhancing the visual elements of the film in a powerful way.

You get a very slow film with no satisfying payoff at the end that seems to have lost focus and direction very early on.

Is there only “yes men” in Spielberg’s and Cruise’s camps that care more about not getting kicked of the gravy train than telling the truth when it comes to their honest opinions about scenes that don’t work? Or maybe they live in a bubble and fool themselves that the film is great when it is not? I doubt it.

Minority Report is a tedious convoluted misadventure that drags its feet without giving you the titillating pleasure you expect from such a film.

Gil Benzeevi

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