Minority Report (2002)

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Scott Frank and John Cohen, from a short story by Philip K. Dick

Stars: Tom Cruise, Samantha Morton, Colin Farrell, Max von Sydow, Michael and Matthew Dickman, Lois Smith, Kathryn Morris



In the Washington of 2054, John Anderton (Tom Cruise) is an investigator for the Pre-Crime Unit, a pilot law enforcement program that uses drugged, precognitive humans wired to a computer to identify murders before they can happen. 



When Anderton is identified as the future killer of someone he does not even know, he must go on the run to clear his name and uncover the dark truth behind Precrime. 



I found it to be astonishingly entertaining, well-directed, and well-scripted.

 


It is packed with great stuff from beginning to end: the detailed future milieu; Precrime detectives racing against time to identify the moment and location of a future murder from contextless images; robotic spiders invading an apartment building to search for Anderton; the precog Agatha (Samantha Morton) using her ability to see seconds into the future to escape from pursuers; and more.

 


Throw in a great cast including Colin Ferrell and the incomparable Max Von Sydow and the result is pure magic.
















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