| I'm pleased to say that I finally saw a new movie in the theaters that made me forget my ass was going numb. Sure, it's got Mr. Ego of the Universe Tom Cruise as the lead actor, but this flick is noticeably different from all his others. For starters, Cruise isn't allowed to really act. That's a good start. Follow that up with relatively equal time devoted to the rest of the cast and you have the makings of a good movie. And thus it maketh so. Being a futuristic film, of course, the writers can eschew real creativity and instead fill the script with robots and flying cars and jet packs and photon guns and snaking metal penises (oops, wrong movie), but that doesn't stop the film from keeping the viewer entertained. The movie is solid up until the first hour mark, filling the screen with stunning special effects and stunts, when all of a sudden it appears the movie is over. False alarm... there's more. Thirty more solid minutes later the movie appears to end again. Just kidding. Thirty long minutes after THAT the movie DOES finally end. I'm not saying here that the length of Minority Report is unbearable; the movie just has two faux endings that are actually rather climactic and a REAL ending that is blatantly predictable. It's always best to end a movie on a big note. The writers reveal the bad guy way too soon for there to be any possible chance of a shocking resolution. After the movie was over, I kept trying to remember the first 1.5 hours of the film where the action was unpredictable and the plot twists dramatic. Bad finales aside, Minority Report is enjoyable enough to make you want to pay $7.25 for it. Go see it. |
