Minority Report (2002)

Date of first viewing: Friday, January 10, 2003

Location: Michael's house
Format: VHS
and Friday, June 13, 2003 on VHS in SLC with Mom & Dad

I really should have seen this on a big screen when it was in theaters because it's all about the special effects. It definitely wasn't worth seeing twice on video. But Dad hadn't seen it, so I joined him.

MAJOR SPOILER ALERT: I have a huge beef with the basic premise of this movie. Given the stated rules of how the precogs operate, that they only see premeditated murders in advance and that they don't see crimes of passion until right before they happen, there is no way Agatha could have seen Jon Anderton kill Leo Crow 36 hours beforehand. All Lamar Burgess does is set Leo Crow up in a hotel room with pictures of kidnapped children. Then Crow just sits there and waits. Waits for what? Waits for Agatha to see something that's not even in the mind of Anderton until Agatha sees it? It's circular. If it were an Excel formula, you'd get an error message and have to fix your mistake. Too bad there isn't logic checking software for the plotlines of movies.

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