Lacking inspiration, Steven Spielberg began, at the end of the 1980s, to diversify: historical films, comedies, melodramas, etc. Sometimes successfully (“Schindler’s List”), sometimes sluggishly (“Lincoln”). With “Minority Report”, he plunges back into the SF of his childhood, with modern means: he imagines a society in which criminals would be hunted down even before committing an offence. It turns out that the head of the repression unit (Tom Cruise) is himself hunted and must use all his faculties to survive…
Inspired by a short story by Philip K. Dick, the film is a firework of special effects. It’s spectacular, fun, and quite unexpected: the dark universe of the author does not coincide with that of Spielberg, more human. But, in spite of everything, the marriage is done well and the spectacle is grandiose. This film propelled Colin Farrell (in a supporting role) to stardom.
Friday February 17 at 10:30 p.m. on RTL9. American science fiction film by Steven Spielberg (2002). With Tom Cruise, Samantha Morton. 2h20.
