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Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Minority Report
2002
***
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Tom Cruise, Samantha Morton, Colin Farrell, Max von Sydow, Neal McDonough, Steve Harris, Patrick Kilpatrick, essica Capshaw, Lois Smith, Kathryn Morris

In 2054, the experimental PreCrime unit in Washington DC stops murders before they happen. Just when this controversial method is about to be launched across the country, the unit's chief John Anderton goes in hiding when he learns that in 36 hour he is to murder a man he doesn't even know. Steven Spielberg’s somber science fiction spectacle is loosely based on Philip K. Dick’s 1956 short story. Like A Clockwork Orange, it deals with the clash between free will and predestination. However, ultimately this is just a glorified whodunnit, with a plot so full of holes that Scott Frank and Jeff Cohen should've been arrested before they handed in their script. The film is overlong and visually smudgy, but Spielberg does stage some gripping set pieces along the way,