This is obviously a formula for a highly successful action movie, but the thing that really makes Minority Report succeed is that it pays so much amount of attention to things that would occur in this situation in real life. He works with a group of `pre-cogs' that, together, dream of murders that have not yet taken place and project enough information for Anderton and his team to watch the video emanating from their heads to determine where and when the murders are to take place and to get to those locations and stop the murders from happening before they happen. John Anderton, played with precision by the great Tom Cruise (oh shut up, the man's awesome), is the chief of the Pre-Crime department in the District of Columbia, which has successfully eradicated murder entirely for the last six years. This is fine with me, too, because Minority Report is such a taut futuristic thriller that an incongruous little bit of wisdom like this is not to have any negative impact on the film as a whole. This is spoken in Minority Report by a drug-dealer on the streets with no eyes at all, so I suppose its free advice for John Anderton, our hero, or a bit of wise-sounding advice meant to get across to the audience but with no other good place for it to fit in the film. Full marks, five stars, a must see several times and buy the DVD movie. The method by which the PreCrime unit prevents murders is through a mixture of advanced technology and the use of Precogs. Murders can be now be stopped before they even occur, thanks to the sophisticated techniques of the PreCrime police unit, headquartered in Washington, D.C. But if you need another reason, go to see it just for another fantastic soundtrack from the master, John Williams. Minority Report (Film) Summary The year is 2054.
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