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Max von Sydow as Lamar Burgess
Colin Farrel as Danny Witwer
Neal McDonough as Fletcher
Samantha Morton as Agatha
Director is Steven Spielberg
Review Date is July 9, 2002
Sci-Fi-John Anderton created the "precrime" system, where three humans known as "precogs" say when murders will happen. They can see the future, and John created it because he lost his son. His wife divorced him, and now he's a drug addict. Danny Witwer is coming over, and wants John's job as the head of the precrime system. Lamar Burgess, the head of the orginization, doesn't really like him. But, when the precogs say that John will kill someone soon, he runs away. He doesn't even know the person who he's supposed to kill. From then on, chases and frenzy ensue.
8/10-A great, frentic action movie. Tom put in all he got for the demanding role of John Anderton (and he did all his own stunts). Colin was in, what I heard, the atrocious "American Outlaws", but he proved to be a fine actor in here. The atmosphere was creepy, not unlike the eerie sensation in "The Others". It was definately a Spielberg film-Spielbergian action, Spielbergian humor, and a Spielbergian ending. The ending and the length were the only two things I didn't like about the movie. I did like, however, that they showed us how precrime worked in the beginning, and I guess everything was necessary.
The great thing about this is that it takes place in the future. The newspapers change with the headlines. The cars can go vertically. And the advertisments are astounding. One thing that did bother me is that while precrime had all that hi-tech technology, the homes seemed like 2002 homes. It didn't seem like all that change could happen in 50 years, but then again, you never know. The advertisments, as I've said before, were probably just put in so Dreamworks could have a little more money and so they could generate some laughs. All in all, it's an exasperating two hours and twenty minutes, with a twist ending (somewhat), and if you go you won't be disappointed.
Rated PG-13 for brief strong language, violence, drugs, disembowled eyes, and general spookiness.