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Here is my full reaction to Minority Report!

This movie was so action packed, had a great cast, and some mind bending twists and turns! It was pretty funny seeing the 2002 interpretation of the future. I just love that The Gap and malls were still thriving in their version of 2054. If they made this again today, I imagine their idea of the future would look vastly different. While this had futuristic elements, this movie felt very nostalgic. Tom Cruise delivers, as always!

Watched on: Paramount+ / Runtime: 2:25:30

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(Full Reaction) Minority Report

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Phillip Arthur

I've never seen this before but Tom Cruise is a household have for Sci-fi and this was incredible thanks Mrs. Jax actually there's something that I've discovered but this fun fact The "Total Recall" Connection: Before Spielberg and Cruise became attached to the project in 1997, the film was originally developed as a direct sequel to the 1990 sci-fi movie Total Recall (starring Arnold Schwarzenegger). I couldn't believe it but this was amazing. Love this so much Jax ♥️

BIG MATT

I missed the poll 3 days ago. Jax I'd look into reading a breakdown or synopsis of the animated series as 97 is a direct continuation of it. Just a suggestion.

Sven Lekberg

Definitely no running in Rain Man, definitely not. ;)) I personally cannot forget seeing him swoosh by the camera like the wind in Jerry Maguire. But if I were to guess, I would definitely go for the first Mission: Impossible. "I can act, I can run across medieval bridges like nobody's business, get used to it," was THE beginning in my humble opinion. Sure Mission III cemented the "I can run like the wind blows, too, Forrest!" in the annals of cinema history, but it did not start there, to be sure. Mr. Cruise had been quite physical in his movies right from the start , so there was certainly some running before. BUT! I really cannot recall seeing "the run" for the first time as vividly as when Tom Cruised across the Charles Bridge in good ol' Prague.

AzraRillian

You mentioned a different type of story at the end, where technology is used to predict future events. There's a fantastic tv show that was made by Jonathan Nolan called Person of Interest, that is kind of that type of story. I'd highly recommend that for future consideration.

Tim Heron

Interesting trivia note: the Precogs were all named for famous mystery writers: Dashiell Hammett, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Agatha Christie. And if you can find it, if you're interested in reacting to it, there's a one-season follow-up television series that aired in 2015. It picks up about 10-ish years after the movie.

Ed Scoglio

That is such a ethically questionable world. They are literally imprisoning people who have not actually done anything wrong. And either way at the end, the precrime program would be finished. Either he doesn't kill John and proves the program doesn't work or he kills him and proves it does, but the creator of the whole program has been found to have committed multiple murders and the program loses all support from the people. I also miss malls! The best time was going there after school or on the weekends to hang out with friends!

Horace Cocroft

Spielberg's film before this one was A.I. where he took over for Kubrick and tried to make the film the way Kubrick would have. I think he was still under the influence of Kubrick when he made this movie.

Mister Lou

I guess Philip K Dick wrote some great sci-fi books? That made some great sci-fi movies like this, Total Recall (remake also stars Collin Farrell) and Blade Runner, but The Adjustment Bureau is my favorite one.

The Watcher

I always found these depictions of the future to feel like, “What if Apple took over the world?” Everything ends up looking like an Apple product. What’s funny is that Minority Report came out before the iPhone, yet it accidentally predicted so much of that sleek tech aesthetic. Early-2000s Apple still had that bubbly, translucent, almost playful look. Modern Apple, though, is far more minimalist: smooth metal, glass everywhere, clean white lighting, thin interfaces, and that ultra-slick corporate futurism. Since then, a lot of sci-fi has basically copied that design language whenever it wants to portray “the future.” What makes Minority Report stand out in my opinion is that the movie mixed that sleek technology with grit. Dirty streets, invasive advertising, crowded cities. So the clean interfaces contrasted with a messy society. Compared to some newer sci-fi, where everything just looks like a giant Apple Store, its world still feels textured and believable. I still remember the RoboCop reboot having this problem, especially when compared to the original's retro-futuristic, analogue depiction of the future. Retro-futurism has personality: chunky buttons, CRT screens, industrial machinery, practical lighting, worn metal, and analogue sound design. A lot of modern sci-fi, by comparison, ends up looking like a luxury electronics advert. That’s one reason why I loved Fantastic Four: First Steps and Fallout. Both are set in retro-futuristic worlds inspired by what people in the 1950s imagined the future would look like. Even Project Hail Mary has a slight 1980s vibe through its analogue-feeling technology, sound design, and overall atmosphere. It almost feels like a throwback to sci-fi films from that era. But even saying all of that, I do respect Minority Report for what it accomplished. It was one of the first major projects to popularise this minimalist, corporate depiction of the future that we’ve now seen copied across countless films, games, and TV series. In a way, it helped define what “future tech” looked like for the next two decades. Before we all got nostalgic and started reverting back to retro-futurism.