Minority Report: Critic Reviews

A highly effective thriller whose futuristic panoramas rival those of A.I. Artificial Intelligence.

Not simply Steven Spielberg's most prescient sci-fi work but also one of his finest.

Violent sci-fi detective movie isn't for kids.

Vigorously entertaining and tremendously weird, "Minority Report" feels like a vintage Action Comics adventure spiked with acid. It's an uncommonly melancholy blockbuster about demons ruthlessly determining our fate even as we relentlessly flee them.

One of the few films I've seen so far this year that I would recommend and it is one to see on the big screen.

While the way in which Minority Report presents these ideas makes them far more incredible and fantastical, it's their truth...that turns the film into something far more dark and sinister.

...a stylish, thoughtful, and thought-provoking future-noir thriller.

This has to be one of Spielberg's best ever...

The most fun a Spielberg film has been for a long while.

The most exciting piece of work Spielberg has delivered in ages.

It is exciting to watch a director who is in such complete control of storytelling and vision.

A roller coaster ride with an unusual amount of grit.

Hugely ambitious and wildly successful in parts, only a tricky third act trips up a master director clearly enjoying himself in virgin territory. Nonetheless this stands as the best future noir since Blade Runner.

The fashionably fussy, funky veneer may convince some that the film's serious, but it's finally another chase pic, murky in detail, muddled in ideology and strangely predictable in dramatic thrust.

Despite its moldy story twists, this Steven Spielberg spectacular ranks as the best thing he's done since the Indiana Jones films...

If you enjoyed Cruise's Mission: Impossible, multiply it by five!

The movie's ponderousness is relieved only by Samantha Morton's uncanny portrayal of the psychic Agatha and by Lois Smith's turn as Dr. Hineman...

Minority Report is Spielberg's visual masterpiece.

Never gains enough momentum to get into fifth and out of Cruise control.

Tom cruise plays a fine flawed hero glossed to perfection by a director who knows how to treat his cast to their matinee idol advantage.

Lacking a consistent view of his source material, Spielberg pulls out all the stops by attempting to roll three wildly different genres -- action-adventure, psychological thriller, and futuristic tone poem -- into one film.

There is much to praise here, as Spielberg's onscreen technical wizardry represents, in many ways, the apex of this art form. He seamlessly blends CGI and live action in a series of action sequences that are among the best he has ever filmed.

Minority Report is a film for the critical cognoscenti as much as it is for the Goober-munching masses, and succeeds for all audiences.

Amazingly, Spielberg... has managed to suppress his own worst excesses and create a movie that does justice to Dick's ideas.

The first two thirds of the flick are astounding...but that last half hour or so is completely and utterly superfluous.