Cinema Review (From Barry And District News)

Cinema Review

Minority Report (12)

IMAGINE a society with very little crime. Imagine a city where the murder rate was non-existent. In 2054 this is a reality.

Washington DC has been cleaned up by a government-funded agency known as pre-crime. John Anderton (Tom Cruise) is the head of this new law enforcement division.

The system in place catches the killers before they commit their crime using what are known as pre-cog's (they are people with extra sensitive pre-cognition) who can accurately predict the future.

It is said that pre-cogs are never wrong. But when John sees himself killing a man who he has never met, he knows the infallible system has been corrupted.

His choices are simple - give up and be incarcerated or run and try to change his own future.

Minority Report's legendary director, Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park, ET), has created a world that takes the cinema-goer on a roller coaster ride, and transports them into the distant future and beyond.

He has once again used his own instinctive camera style, along with his over-exposed lighting to make this movie look a little grey (the same style he used so effectively in Saving Private Ryan).

It adds tremendously to the film, giving it a more black and white, early film feel, which enhances the atmospheric and futuristic sides of this complex thriller.

As with every new blockbuster we are once again given very special, computer generated effects. And with all this going on around him, a lesser actor could just coast through the movie, but not Tom Cruise (who started filming this two days after Vanilla Sky).

Minority Report is a great film with many layers to unwrap.