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Minority Report is a 2002 American science fiction action film directed by Steven Spielberg and loosely based on the 1956 short story "The Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick. The cast includes Tom Cruise as Chief of PreCrime John Anderton, Colin Farrell as Department of Justice agent Danny Witwer, Samantha Morton as the senior precog Agatha, and Max von Sydow as Anderton's superior Lamar Burgess. It was going to be a sequel to Total Recall, and started its development in 1997 after a script by Jon Cohen reached Spielberg and Cruise. Production suffered many delays due to Cruise's Mission: Impossible 2 and Spielberg's A.I. running over schedule, eventually starting in March 2001.

Plot
In April 2054 Washington D.C. and Northern Virginia, A future technology makes it possible for cops to catch criminals before a crime is committed. John Anderton is accused of one such crime and sets out to prove his innocence. A.D. crime is virtually eliminated from Washington D.C. thanks to an elite law enforcing squad "Precrime". They use three gifted humans (called "Pre-Cogs") with special powers to see into the future and predict crimes beforehand. John Anderton heads Precrime and believes in the system's flawlessness steadfastly. However one day the Pre-Cogs predict that Anderton will commit a murder himself in the next 36 hours. Worse, Anderton doesn't even know the victim. He decides to get to the mystery's core by finding out the 'minority report' which means the prediction of the female Pre-Cog Agatha that "might" tell a different story and prove Anderton innocent.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) It stays faithful to the book it's based on, Philip K. Dick's 1956 short novel, The Minority Report.
 * 2) Tom Cruise gave an outstanding performance as Chief John Anderton, and Max von Sydow, who played as Director Lamar Burgess.
 * 3) Likable characters, such as Chief John Anderton, who is a Precrime Unit; a set of police who arrest suspects before crimes are performed.
 * 4) Just like many Speilberg films, Steven Spielberg still did a great job directing the movie.
 * 5) Most of the visual effects are absolutely spectualar in the entire movie.
 * 6) It managed to handle the Hermes veey well, with mix of tech noir, whodunit, thriller and science fiction genres.
 * 7) Just like Blade Runner, and other futuristic films, the film has beautiful looking futuristic settings.
 * 8) Lots of great action sequences, such as chasing from the police officers in the highest apartment building, and the fight at the car factory.
 * 9) Terrific cinematography.
 * 10) Amazing soundtrack that was performed by the legendary John Williams.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Some of the CGI effects didn't agee that well in 2002 standards.

Crtitical response
The film received critical acclaim and Minority Report was one of the best-reviewed films of 2002 and was nominated for several awards. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Sound Editing, and eleven Saturn Award nominations, including Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Saturn Award for Best Music, winning Best Science Fiction Film, Best Direction, Best Writing, and Best Supporting Actress. It has a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 252 reviews, and an average rating of 8.18/10. The site's critical consensus is, "Thought-provoking and visceral, Steven Spielberg successfully combines high concept ideas and high octane action in this fast and febrile sci-fi thriller. On Metacritic, it has a 80/100 based on 37 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

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