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August 7, 2002

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I saw "Minority Report" last Sunday, and that was one heck of a good movie. The pacing was excellent, the effects were really great and it had a very solid story. And as hard as I try, I can't help but like Tom Cruise. In most movies, I am always thinking, oh that is Tom Crusie up there. But in this one, I actually forgot it was Tom and got into his character. I was totally pulled into the movie. It was really great.

***SPOILER WARNING***

Now, I have some questions. So if you haven't seen "Minority Report" and want to remain unspoiled, skip on by. I have a few questions for folks who've seen the movie. Read on at your own risk.

So here's what I want to know. The precogs saw that Anderson will kill a man. So Anderson has to kidnap a precog to find out why he kills this guy he doesn't know. Eventually he finds the apartment and things happen as predicted.

Turns out Anderson's boss, Burgess, convinced this guy to act like he killed Anderson's son to get some kind of payment. But how did Burgess put the wheels in motion? Sure he hired the guy, but how did he know Anderson would ever find him to make the murder happen? I mean, just hiring the guy and getting him set-up in an apartment does not guarantee Anderson would find him. Anderson found him because the precog saw that he would murder him. Without the Agatha (the precog) and the twins' vision, Anderson would never have even found this guy! I mean, if there had been clues that would have led Anderson to the imposter's apartment anyway, I can see how he would have been led to murder him on his own. But it is never explained how Burgess got the precogs to forsee the murder that would never have happened if they hadn't seen it.

Another part that bothered me was when Anderson "pulled the plug" on the floating pool. Where did they go? One minute they are getting sucked down the drain, the next they are dry and driving away. In the movie, his friend, Fletcher I think, says he knows where the drain leads and sends a team of guards to secure it. What happened????

And lastly, wasn't Anderson supposed to go blind? The movie makes a huge deal out of the fact that he needs to wait 12 hours before removing the bandages. But it is made clear that the spiders open the bandages too early. Then nothing else is said. Does he not go blind? I don't see why so much of a big deal was made about not removing the bandages if there aren't going to be any backlash.

Oh yeah, I just remembered one. OK so, Anderson is a wanted man, he's being tracked all over town with his face plastered everywhere. How come they Division of Precrime didn't disable his access to the building? Hell, when they fire someone at almost any company, the first thing they do is disable their access to everything. But for some reason, the Precrime division never does.

Even after Anderson breaks in, destroys the Temple and kidnaps Agatha, they still don't disable his security access. Remember later in the movie where Anderson's ex-wife gets into the prison to rescue him? She gets in there with his eye. This was AFTER he broke in and kidnapped a precog! What does it take to get your access restricted? Or at the very least, wouldn't some alarms go off if he was identified as trying to gain access to the buildings?

Well even with these plot points that bother me, I still think it is a great movie. Can anyone out there give me some feedback on these point? Did I miss something along the way?

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Posted by on August 7, 2002 @ August 7, 2002 08:20 AM
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Think about it this way, Burgess sets Anderson up based on a theory. The theory is that you can set certain events into motion with a possible outcome and create a psychic loop.

Burgess creates a perfect environment for Anderson to kill this guy. He then paves the way for the event to take place. He gives him access and arranges to keep him untethered and unrestricted. The precogs see this as a possible future and the events are set into motion. Since Burgess started the ball rolling and made certain that it would continue rolling, it made it the most probable future outcome. Thus the precogs picked up on it.

{Geekgasm!}

Posted by: Brian Peace at August 7, 2002 9:04 AM

I agree there were some poor plot points in the whole thing, especially the fact that this is supposed to be the future, yet with so many technological advances how to they make sure that there is integrity in the precrime process? WOODEN BALLS! Whats up with that?

As for the eye thing, it may have been the doctor's way of getting back at him - the longer he was there the better chance of them finding him. Remember, he had busted the Doctor before.

But you have to admit, no matter how cheesy some of the plot points were, the whole deal with him and Agatha getting out of the mall using her powers was pretty slick :)

Posted by: Jim at August 7, 2002 11:02 AM

My husband and I had almost the exact same conversation about this movie. We LOVED the movie -- it was a great two hours of entertainment. But there were a lot of questions still left unanswered -- most of them you mentioned in your post.

ITA with you, Jim, the whole deal of Agatha getting them out of the mall was AWESOME. Love it love it. Get an umbrella. hehe

I'm also thinking that Jim could be right about the doctor as well. That seems to be the only explanation -- we kept thinking that he was going to do something horrible to him -- maybe pretend to change his eyes -- but not really do it-- or not put any eyes in at all -- etc. Who knows. That was a little "loose end" that wasn't tied up very clearly in the movie.

We too were wondering how the precogs saw the murder if the ONLY way John ever FOUND the guy he was going to murder was by seeing that he was going to murder him via the precogs.

Still a good movie though!

Posted by: lacy at August 7, 2002 11:08 AM

My web-board readings have turned up these theores:

* Burgess kidnapped Anderton's son. You can see him at the pool in the background in a robe. How else could the kidnapper have all the photos of his son?

I don't buy it, Spielberg would have made that very clear if that was the case.

* The doctor put a halo on Anderton and the rest of the movie was in his mind.

There was no indication that it was a halo the Dr. put on him, it didn't even look like a halo. Again if that were the case, I am sure they would give us some sort of clue.

But yeah, even with the holes, it was a great movie.

Posted by: Promo at August 7, 2002 12:24 PM

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