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Minority Report:
Imagine you are in the year 2054. People still hustling and bustling on the streets in suits and ties headed for work. Many of the details and perspectives we have today are still alive and in existence; just with a few twists.
Police vehicles in 2054 are now wailing to the beat of a premise, rather than a 1041 in progress. They call it Precrime.
John Anderton (Tom Cruise) plays a precrime fighter, racing to unfoil crime before it happens. The scheme goes under trial in Washington D.C. before it goes national. There is a murder that they believe is going to happen and the first scene which lasts about twenty minutes, proves thst Speilberg remembers how to gas up a flick, despite his last work with "A.I." It's a little strange to see a Speilberg film open with sex and violence, but he weaves it into suspense and pleasurable anxiety, to make the audience brace themselves for the issues of predispositioned genetics at hand. People can be totally "uncovered" by the testing of their DNA in 2054, and this whole concept does not seem to be too unlikely for a true testament of what will happen in the future.
In 2054 there are people that the government and police forces use to help fight crime because they have "E.S.P. So,"What is a "precog"? Well, we have them now and we call them psychics. People like John Edwards who know what is going on beyond our human existence. (Very Hitchcock). In the future however, there are many more and they are much more, shall we say, intuitive. Kind of like a concept I have had within since childhood, that the human race would only survive if and when we could all reach what I call "Higher conciousness."
In this futuristic flick, these individuals are kept seperate from society. They are very valuable and they also are so inclined to what they can "see" that others can't, that they are cast away from society and called Precognitives. Their thoughts are captured by computers that are hooked up to the huge floatation tanks they must live in because they cannot survive normally outside of them.
Precognitives are not new at all. In fact they stem from old. Look at the Oracle at Delphi for instance. They are teriffic for creating suspense, and Spielberg uses them well for this flick as he adds his visual wit and jam packs the scenes with cute Tom Cruise in action.
At one point Agatha A precog), is taken from her tank and she becomes helpless and out of control. She appears like an overwhelmed psychotic with terrets, screaming and cursing and grabbing strangers, people in a mall, spewing prophecies from her peaked yellow face. Then we don't see her again in the movie.
Even when Anderton (Cruise), is pinned by the pre-cogs and is on the run there is a sense that Speilberg is at his side, leading up to the thrill of the chase. He jumps from car to car as they run up and down the sides of skyscrapers that run smoothly along their tracks like well oiled roller coasters.
Overall this flick has a bit of everything. There is some romance, lots of speed and toiling through suspenseful interludes that lead to the calm after the storm, but only to find huge water monsters at the bottom of the calming waterfall basin.
Speilberg's casting was precise, with Lois Smith as a middle aged inventor of precrime, watering her venomous flowers and gently, sleekly, pecking a kiss onto Cruise. Neal Mcdonough, a stalwart of the precrime squad with those bright blue eyes catches our attention at every corner. Colin Farrell plays Danny Witwer who is sent by the Dept. of Justice, to assess precrime scenarios in a loose tie and black suit. He refuses to take any crap, kinda reminds me of Denero without a clue. When Farrell leaves the movie however, part of it seems to drop like a fresh baked cake on the stove after a gun shot.
Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg doing a flick together. I thought this
movie was good. Spielberg is definitely getting old because
his movies are starting to stretch too long and maybe "A.I.", is an example of this.
This movie about the future conceives a world where murders are not
committed, because psychics can see murder before it happens.
The idea is great but the story is very long. When Tom is set up for a
situation that he isn't responsible for he finds there's a flaw in the
system. Anyway, the majority of the movie is about Tom getting
his life back and discovering the truth. This movie is good so go see it.
