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How much is it the elimination of murder worth? How much would we pay to erase the weeping bereaved from our television screens?
Minority Report foresees a moment in 2054 when technology has made such a world possible. Or so it seems.
As with all utopias in which the human report remains untransformed–that is, all of them to date–one smells a rat. This rat moves secretly to a Spielbergian rhythm until the hunting down of ‘Precrime’s’ central and heroic figure (Tom Cruise) for a crime he is supposedly about to commit leads to the unraveling and the entrance into the system of–dare we say it–a measure of doubt.
Is it worth the occasionally mis-prosecuted innocent for a system that works most of the time? But not all of it?
In working out this plot via some of the wittiest screenplay to come along in a while and one or two superb chase scenes, the movie entertains and provokes.
Colin Farrel threatens to outshine Cruise, but both do their job well.
Possibly not a film to be watched more than once. But promising of a very enjoyable once.
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