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| Tom Cruise in a scary eyeball moment. |
Since I missed it when it was released in 2002 I figured I'd play catch-up and boost my movie creds by watching Minority Report. Starring Tom Cruise and directed by Steven Spielberg, what's not to like? Surprisingly, plenty.
The loophole-laden plot involves a trio of strange mutant children who are able to see crimes before they are committed, thus allowing the arrest of people who almost did something but were stopped in time by members of the special Precrime Unit, headed by Cruise's character. They then go to prison anyway, to a place that looks just like the one where all those babies are cooking in The Matrix.
Instead of character development we see technological advances that broadcast events that happened inside someone's brain on giant glass screens like televisions. It's all quite confusing, making you stop the movie to ask whoever's around what's going on or to rewind and see it again, hoping a second viewing might clarify things. Often, it did not.
Good, old-fashioned car chase scenes are updated to occur with participants flying in the sky minus cars but with jetpacks on their backs instead. Despite that they are still chase scenes, and less believable than those flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz.
There is a gruesome, cover-your-eyes scene involving eye surgery, a sad flashback story of a little boy who was kidnapped, and a dismal future in which privacy is non-existent thanks to a government beyond all control that sees all and knows all based on your eyeballs.
Based on a 1956 science fiction short story by Phillip K. Dick, which I bet you could read in less time than the two hours plus movie and is likely a lot more entertaining, I can't think of any reason to see it.
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