Minority Report is a Steven Spielberg film that stars Tom Cruise as pre-crime cop John Anderton.
**1/2 If you like crazy crazy sci-fi, and are highly amused by visual effects, this is the movie for you.
If you like movies where there are no completely obvious plot holes, see something else.
I really really wanted to see this movie ever since I saw the first preview for it which was in theaters. What an intriguing concept. Pre-crime. The ability to stop future crimes from happening. I wanted to know how is this done? How could someone know the future? I got my answer, which was satisfactory, but left so many glaring plot holes that it really reduced my enjoyment of the film.
What I liked: I really liked the way that 2054 was portrayed for the most part. It certainly was futuristic, but it wasn't completely inconceivable -- like there weren't any flying cars. (A concept which I think will never happen. We are never going to be like the Jetsons flying around in cars. Can you imagine what car accidents would be like if everyone flew around? There'd be no way that you could keep your house from crumbling beneath the car that crashes and falls right out of the sky. Yes, I really do not like this idea.) Anyway, the clothes were really not that changed, which I think is pretty realistic. Fifty-two years ago men were still are wearing suits and ties, fifty-two years in the future, they are still going to be wearing them.
I also thought that Colin Ferrell did an excellent job in his role of Danny the investigator from the Justice Department. Not only is he incredibly good-looking (which, yowza, he is) but he took his role extremely seriously without completely over doing it. Yeah, Tom Cruise is a little bit good-looking himself, but let's face it, he's like 5'2�, plus he is getting really old. I have never seen anything with Colin Ferrell in it before, but after seeing this movie, he is definitely on my list of boyfriends. So having Ferrell in the movie was definitely a high point for me.
What I did not like: Basically the only thing that really annoyed me with this movie was the plot holes. So, if you have not seen this movie, and you really want to see it without being spoiled about major events and the ending, please do not read beyond this point.
Pre-crime going national. So the reason people can be caught for crimes they have not yet committed is that there are three very special people called the Precognitives or Precogs. All three are linked together in a sort of unconscious awareness and are connected in this little pool of water thingy within the Pre-crime headquarters. Connected to their heads are some type of transmitters that pick up the visual images from their brains. The three people are very unique. So, how in the freak is Pre-crime going to be going national when there are only three people that can tell the future? Even if they could see beyond like the district of Columbia, they could not see every single crime that is happening everywhere in the United States. That is a totally flawed plot point.
How are they going to get new Precogs? The ones they have right now are basically accidents. Freaks of nature. Who knows when another one is going to come along? They can't manufacture these people. Plus, they are PEOPLE, and yet are treated as machines. That they cannot get new ones, is definitely a major plot hole. That they are treated like machines is just wrong. You think that the United States would want to protect their rights.
How could John Anderton's crime be premeditated? The only reason that John got into contact with the victim he was supposed to kill, was because he saw the vision that the Precognitives saw and he followed the clues. This seems to be a major paradox. Of course, he would want to bring justice to the person who killed his son. I bet there are tons of things out there in the world which once revealed, could potentially cause people to kill. The fact that they are not revealed to them (the potential killers) is the reason why they do not kill. It wasn't like John Anderton was going to run across this evidence that his intended victim was his son's killer in the natural way. The only solution to this is that the visions that the Precognitives saw were manufactured. How could they possibly be manufactured? (By the way, I believe that we were told that they were manufactured.) It just seems rather unlikely to me. Even when John Anderton was face to face with his son's (fake) killer, it wasn't like he premeditatedly sought him out to kill him.
How did Mr. old and creepy get away with the murder of Anne Lively? Wouldn't his name come out on a little red ball? I understand that when the Precognitives saw Mr. old and creepy the technicians would dismiss it as after effects. But the fact still remains that he was premeditatedly plotting the death of this woman way before the guy who he framed to do it, attempted. Confusing? Yeah, just a little.
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