DVD : Minority Report (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)

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- nice plot
this movie is worth buying, the plot and the actors are very good. i'd recommmend this to everybody.

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- Best SF classic of the new millenium yet
Every decade seems to spawn no more then 10 major SF classics worth watching again and again ( my personal litmus test of quality).The 80's seem to have the lead in this field (Blade Runner ,Alien I & II , Empire Strikes Back , Conan , Philadelphia Experiment , The Abyss , Back to the Future Trilogy , They Live , Star Track Wrath Of Khan , some others as well ). The 90's OTOH were a disappointment , only a few Sci-Fi flicks seem to me to have been memorable : Starship Troopers ,Total Recall Blade I and The Matrix .
I was thrilled therefore in 2002 when Minority Report came out .Seemed that the new decade was off to a great start. The overreliance of CGI spawning soulless forgettable tripe like the new Star Wars series snozefest seem to have been overcome .MR arguably stacked up right up there with the classics of the 80's and the balance between storyline and CGI seemed to have been struck . . Sadly it's 2007 and the only a few other movies which seem to have entered my personal hall of fame in this field are (more or less ) War of the Worlds (Spielberg again) and Apocalypto . I Robot barely makes it . Looks like the first 10 years of the new millennium are going to come up the driest yet as far as Sci-Fi classics go .

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- a top notch sci fi thriller
A great science fiction thriller is also one of Spielberg's strongest films. It earned four Saturn Awards, including Best Science Fiction Film and Best Direction. It also earned an Academy Award nomination for best sound Editing. A Great plot is the key to any compelling science fiction film and this one is very thought provoking. set in Washinton D.C. during the year 2054 Thanks to three "precogs and technology built around their ability to see murders before they happen, the city has gone six years without a homicide. The group making use of the precogs is called the "Department of Pre-Crime"; the police officers and detectives within the department are empowered to act on their foreknowledge, arresting people who are about to commit a murder, and imprisoning them without a trial in a "Hall of Containment" using technology even crueler than that used to make use of the precogs. The story asks many moral and ethical questions about what types of freedoms would you give up to live in a safe invoronment. The film has cool gadgets and weapons, and new hip looking transit system and a more rundown looking part of the city called the "sprawl". The Tom Cruise Character has depth and has a tragic past that makes his plight very believable. I love this movie and watch it often.

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- Love the movie But...
THe "widescreen" copy I got is really a wide screen image on a 4:3 black background.

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- Overall one of the best films of 2002!
One of the smartest movies to come out in 2002, `Minority Report' is a film that dazzles and frazzles me every time I sit down to watch it. As many of my friends know, I am not a fan of Tom Cruise. I think he's a highly overrated actor who receives far too much attention and praise for his own good, but I've always said that he knows how to pick a movie. A lot of my favorite films (`Eyes Wide Shut', `Minority Report', `Vanilla Sky' & any of the `Mission Impossible' films just to mention a few) are Tom Cruise Vehicles. This film is no exception, but here Tom is far outweighed by the strength of his co-stars Samantha Morton and the new kid on the block Colin Farrell.

The premise takes place in the not so distant future of 2054 when crime is all but non-existent because of a new `precrime' division of local law. This division is spearheaded by John Anderton (Cruise), a man haunted by the disappearance of his son six years prior and is now determined to make sure nothing like that ever happens again. Relying on the premonitions of three `pre-cogs' (three children born to drug addicts who suffer from a horrible gift enabling them to see murders before they actually happen), this team has been able to all but eradicate murder as a whole.

Just as the morals and accuracy of the project are brought into question by Danny Witwer (Colin Farrell) it appears the pre-cogs predict that John himself is to murder a man he's never met. This catapults John into a game of cat and mouse as he tries to prove his innocence while uncovering a strange murder that pre-cog Agatha (Samantha Morton) keeps seeing over and over.

Steven Spielberg's direction here is fantastic. Visually this movie is stunning from start to finish, and plot-wise this is a film that will keep you intrigued and involved. Samantha Morton is stunning as usual, completely stealing every scene she's in and becoming her character mind, body and soul. Colin Farrell makes a fine breakout here, stealing scene after scene from Cruise and proving to be the more charismatic and entertaining actor of the two. Max von Sydow also pulls out a nice little performance as the ambiguous Lamar Burgess, mentor to the now troubled John. It was also nice to see Kathryn Morris (of `Cold Case' fame) here as Lara, John's ex-wife. It's not that Tom is awful here, he actually pulls out a nice performance, but he's easily overshadowed by the finer actors (Morton in particular who dominates everyone of her scenes) and just continues to shock me with his constant undue praise.

Overall `Minority Report' is one of the best films of 2002, visually, intellectually and entertaining-wise. It's a complete joyride from start to finish despite Tom and is well worth multiple viewings.

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