re: Opinions on Minority Report (2002)

It's very thought-provoking the entire time. So many "Holy crap!" moments..

- Cruise is the badass police chief who reviews the future crimes and then BAM, he is watching himself commit a murder. It's a shocking moment..what the hell would you do in that situation? The precogs are pretty much perfect so it's like you just lost control of your life and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy for him

- When there's about 10 minutes left before he supposedly kills this guy you're wondering what the hell is going to happen in so short a time that drives this character to murder. Then it's all so clear...he killed his son (Cruise is brilliant in this scene)

- When Colin Farrel's character figures out how Lamar faked Ann Lively's murder so he could murder her the same way and the technicians would think the precogs were just having an "echo". Although, the wife pointed out a big flaw here...they supposedly stopped the murder right? Did nobody notice she was still killed? I'm sure they could've explained this by saying Lamar made it look like she killed herself when she couldn't see her daughter or something, but the movie kinda glossed over this.

- Cruise puts Lamar in this catch-22 where if he doesn't kill Cruise, then his whole program is flawed and will be shut down, but if he does kill him, the program survives, but he goes to jail

- Then of course the entire concept of the pre-crime unit is so morally conflicting. It sounds so good in theory to stop murders before they happen, but if they never happen, how can you be certain the suspects were going to go through with it. Not to mention you have to be OK with subjecting three innocent people to spending their entire lives in an isolated chamber having murder nightmares for the rest of their lives