Jai Singh
Tom Cruise stars as John Anderton in this somewhat lengthy but still really cool sci-fi crime film. I'd say this is one of his best movies, with a mix of awesome visuals and a good story with a solid performance from the lead. This movie reminds me a lot of The Fugitive from 9 years ago, with the constant chasing and mysteries being unravelled as the movie progresses. Spielberg mixes the futuristic time with raw emotion here.The futuristic designs looked pretty noice for a 2002 film and a bit unique, especially with the hover-car designs on those huge highways. Cruise's what- looks-like-a-stylised-Bugatti car was sleek and looked like something you'd think we'd have today but no. The sci-fi nature coincides with Spielberg's previous stuff (Spielberg is an automatic bonus in most cases) and I noticed someone from Band of Brothers (done by Spielberg too) in the movie too as one of Anderton's friends. They did spend a lot (and made a hefty profit), but did not rely on the effects to entertain - the dialogue was paid attention to, thankfully. There's also a hint of politics in the film.Colin Farrell (the mean guy from Fantastic Beasts) performed well as a cocky and young new agent almost trying to bring down the PreCrime unit, later leading the chase for Anderton. The interactions between him and Anderton showed a sort-of rivalry and pursuing Anderton gave Farrell's character (Danny Witwer) a sort of satisfaction (he tries to look for flaws and finds a human one). You almost kinda feel sorry for Anderton, when you see what he has to do, how low he has to go and how he was manipulated. His son is a key point in the movie and he's almost used like a toy for Anderton to grab at. Agatha was, at times, cryptic and annoying, but nonetheless helpful to Anderton in his search for the truth (couldn't think of a less cheesy way to put it). The situation that Anderton creates for the villain (who shall remain unnamed) is crafty, combining genius with passion. The ending was unfortunately a bit out of place, not really following the rest of the film, seeming rushed and understandably a main point of criticism.
muvi-fan-73
When I first watched the movie, I loved the concept of precogs. Here in India there is a saying 'kuch paaney k liye kuch khona padta hai' which means "To get something we have to lose something". Following that saying and putting light to precogs it allured me. The pain of precogs did not occurr to me much, over the gains achieved in return.When I watched the movie the second time I better understood how the precogs came into existence and why keeping them in pain was wrong.Still I ask you would you nurture precogs to have a crime free world. I would but not without their approval.
The Hateful Citizen
A masterpiece ? No. I'm sorry but we can't qualify this film as a "masterpiece" even though I respect everyone's opinion. I don't question the career of Spielberg but there! He made of a movie who got an interesting script a movie not attractive with scenes of action that I find average for a director like him, a film too long and too slow, cold, without rhythm, predictable and especially boring. It's harm because the special effects are very good and the fundamental issue of knowing if a criminal can be stopped before he committed his crime was interesting. Definitely, it deserves no more than 5. Spielberg ruined this script ...
edwagreen
Sorry, but not even a minority of people could like this absolutely miserable film.With that red ball rolling down, I thought I was back at a ski ball center in Coney Island of many years ago.Pre-crime? Total elimination of crime due to the pre-cogs who can predict when a murder shall happen. This is absolutely totally preposterous, confusing, annoying and too much for the average movie goer to understand.I know that we have all aged but Max Von Sydow is totally unrecognizable here in his villainous-boss role.It takes us forever to realize that Tom Cruise's young son has been long-dead and that swimming pool scene was eerie and just a little too much to take, but that describes this film as well.
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