Minority Report

Pros: Great special effects and great story.
Cons: Not much.

If you love action/suspense movies, there is no movie you should turn to first before the thrilling "Minority Report". Set in 2054, John Anderton, played nicely by Tom Cruise, is the head of a special police force named Precrime which uses psychic...

Pros: Tom Cruise is fabulous, special effects are great. plot is thick with details.
Cons: none to note

Imagine it's 2054 and you're a police officer working in the most politically motivated city in the United States, Washington,DC. Now imagine the crime rate in said city. You're thinking it must be huge, right? Wrong! Thanks to an ...

Pros: Excellent sci-fi special effects, taking this to the next level
Cons: Predictable ending, plot also copies Blade Runner too closely in style and substance

The first movie paring Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg is both dazzling and disappointing. A lot of good work went into the creation of this movie's sci-fi effects and for me, this is the reason to go and see Minority Report. It redefines what movies are...

Pros: Beautiful "look," some spectacular special effects, moments of brilliant film-making --but only moments.
Cons: Plot holes big enough to drive a silly looking Lexus through.

Roger Ebert, a (formerly) trusted reviewer, called it "A masterpiece." Occasionally I must remind myself that he's the guy who also wrote the screenplay for "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls."

"AI," the Kubrik masterpiece-in-the-making equal to...

Pros: Good story, decent acting, actually promotes thought
Cons: Rushed ending and and a few things didn't quite follow in my opinion.

This is one movie that I really enjoyed. Since I've been a kid, I've always enjoyed science fiction (SF). To be honest, I usually hate the that Hollywood puts out. It is almost always overly simplified or washed out to get a mass market appeal. Minority...

Pros: Tom Cruise
Cons: Predictable ending

Tom Cruise is good in action movies. High energy and intense--you always feel like he is working hard to entertain you. Unfortunately, what's wrong with MINORITY REPORT is not within his power to fix.

Starting with a somewhat unique,...

Pros: Slick visuals, well staged action sequences
Cons: A trite, overdone storyline that you can figure out within minutes.

Last year around this time, I was moved to write a review of a movie which I felt was so awful that I just had to get my word out there. That movie was A.I.

Now, here I am again, having sat through a movie which I hoped would restore my faith...

Pros: GREAT special effects, decent acting.
Cons: Some poor plot development.

As with all of my reviews, I will try to give a useful and insightful review without revealing the plot, or too much about the story here. In general, this was a story about the psychic phenomena precognition. In other words, it was about predicting...

Pros: non-stop action, jaw dropping special effects, toppled by ingenous creativity
Cons: End edited for time??

This is movie is why directors and writers go to film school. In each famous or wanna-be famous director/writer's mind lies a gem, a thought, a concept so new and different if people could see it they might think that person a bit "off", "crazy" or...

Pros: Superb direction; Spielberg back on form.
Cons: Slightly too long.

Don’t miss the beginning of this movie: a lot of information arrives in the hectic first five minutes. The opening is one of several superb set pieces, such as the fight on a car assembly line (a take-off of a similar sequence in the latest Star Wars...

Pros: Great special effects (keep the car, I want that FREEWAY!), good action.
Cons: The premise is pretty far-out, the story-line could have been better developed.

The transportation system in Tom's future world caught my eye more than the story-line! Who wouldn't love kicking back and leaving the driving to some master-system....with door-to-door delivery. And the computer operation system was pretty...

Pros: good plot, good effects, well acted out parts.
Cons: slow and boring at the biginning

Talk about your classic Speilberg films. Not only does this movie feature a great futuristic plot but it has many other things needed to make a movie good.

THE PLOT
In the year 2056(I'm pretty sure that's what it was) there is a new...

Pros: Thought prevoking, and mind boggling
Cons: Slightly confusing, but not when paying careful attention

Minority Report is a movie based on a story originally written by Phillip Dick. Directed by the great Steven Spielberg, the movie is set in the year future year of 2054, in the political, once crime-filled town of Washington, D.C.

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Pros: Speilberg's clear command of the craft; Samantha Morton's performance
Cons: The overrated, limited acting skills of Tom Cruise

I love Speilberg. He does suburban middle American with sci fi twist better than anyone. Ever. He knows how to touch us right where we live (literally).

But now Speilberg is trying to address more "grown up" themes in movies like AI and...

Pros: quick paced
Cons: unimaginative, formulaic, overly reliant on special effects

WARNING, Spoilers*
Mr. Spielberg follows up his former Science Fiction flop, AI, with this crash and burn disaster.
Tom Cruise stars as a cop in the future whose job it is to stop crimes before they happen. how is this done? well, it just so...