Minor Masterpiece

Advantages: Brilliant, a real return to past Spielberg excellence.
Disadvantages: Momentary lapses of style, nothing serious.

...I know originality is a precious commodity to come by these days, but I hoped that at least Spielberg would have been able to muster some and not just mimic other movies. He tried hard but there were definite touches of The Matrix, Robocop, Total Recall, The Terminator, The Fugitive and also every other Spielberg movie. I appreciate how hard it must have been to make a satisfactory adaptation of a Philip K Dick novel and I was also impressed that we didn?t simply get Blade Runner 2. Many Directors find it hard to make a futuristic film without showing off every cool idea they had and often forget to tell a story, lost in their own inventiveness. Spielberg did this a little with A.I and got carried away with the robots and his own imagination. So it is good to see that Minority Report uses its setting to good effect but does not go...

willgould 04.07.2002 (31.08.2002) · Read review
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Elliot Minor

Advantages: great consistency of tracks
Disadvantages: none really

...Elliot Minor Self titled This is a great album with some really good beats and vocals The band consists of The group consists of Alex Davies (lead vocals, guitar), Ed Minton (vocals, guitar), Dan Hetherton (drums, backing vocals), Ed 'Teddy' Hetherton (bass), and Ali Paul (keyboard). Time After Time--This has a great piano start, it is a very upbeat track and probably my favourite on the album. The Band kind of remind me of McFly with this track and McFly are a good Band Paralell Worlds--This track is great and has a good video to it, it was put together greatly.It has a great riff and a good beat it keeps the song alive. The White One Is Evil--Another upbeat track with some amazing vocals and guitar rhythms, The band clearly has talent and this song proves it The Liar Is You--This is a nice track with a nice soft...

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Elliot Minor

Advantages: Amazing Album
Disadvantages: Nothing!

...Elliot Minor: Elliot Minor: 14th April 2007. Welcome to the 11 song guide. 1. Time After Time Alex’s favourite. Wow. The demo showed so much charm, so does the finalised track live up? Yes. The one criticism is the removal of the gunshot, but if you overlook that the track has been mastered to perfection. Webisodes have shown clips of this song and the radio even gave us a preview, but nothing could prepare you for the beautiful chords, melodies and lyrics which definitely lead way to an amazing album of this immense scale. Mixing both the classical sounds with the heavier guitars, weaved among a strong drum beat you know you’ll be humming this one for years to come. 2. Parallel Worlds Their first and most recent single [9th April 2007 and a re-release on the 7th April 2008], it’s a crowd pleaser, amazing...

Indie_Star 18.04.2008 · Read review
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Not just for the Minority

Advantages: Gripping plot and no sci-fi just for the sake of it
Disadvantages: You will need to keep your wits about you

...Now what else would any self-respecting couple in their thirty-somethings do on a Sunday night than waddle off to the local CineWorld to catch the latest flick? Of course we have the usual battle of the sexes (he wants violence, science fiction, fantasy and lots of men in uniforms ? that?s another story!) and I want well, pink and fluffy, Barbie-meets-Ken kinda stuff. So naturally we end up compromising and this week it was my turn to do the adult thing and agree to see Minority Report. I had seen the trailer so was delighted we couldn?t get into the usual theatre but had to pay the £10 a seat to go into the deluxe cinema where I would at least be able to get a decent snooze in a big comfy chair. So why the low expectations? Not that I have strong thoughts on Steven Spielberg films, or even on Philip K Dick stories, but rather, I...

Kirsty1 08.07.2002 · Read review
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Not Suitable For Minors

Advantages: Intriguing, diverting, summer movie
Disadvantages: Slighty over-long, too many twists (!)

...A flash of white teeth. A jaunty outlook on life. Walking/running the streets looking confused. Striving for justice and victory. No, it?s not ?The Esther Rantzen Story?, but some of the key signs that Tom Cruise is in the cinematic vicinity. Some say the guy is ?destroying? his usual nice-guy roles with darker, edgier material. Some are right. The future is grainy ? welcome to Minority Report. ***THE PLOT*** In the year 2054, three psychics lay in a shallow, salty pool, their heads connected to an advanced computer system. The pool is part of DC?s crime-fighting complex, and the computers record the visions of the psychics ? unrelenting visions of murders. This information is etched into a unique recording system to prevent forgery, and police officers can now intercept murders before they happen. This is the 6th year of trials...

peppersinclaire 06.07.2002 · Read review
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NOTHING MINOR TO REPORT

Advantages: Great plot
Disadvantages: Slightly weak in places

...The gloves are off, or is it more like keypad cover, and another review is due in the always moving chronicles of films made by the big movers and shakers in Hollywood. In case you’ve not watched any TV recently, Minority Report has only been advertised every other minute. Having massive names such as Spielberg and Cruise does tend to give it that slight nudge forward in terms of hype and marketing. Despite being a moderate Cruise fan, but having avoided wasting my time watching what I thought was a sickly Vanilla Sky (despite having the heavenly Penelope Cruz-swooooon, in it), I thought this looked promising enough to warrant seeing. Cruise, love him or hate him, is a very street-wise actor. He knows what films to pick, at what time. In the mid and late eighties, he picked crowd pleasers in Top Gun and Cocktail that...

kleft 11.07.2002 · Read review
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No way is this a minor delight, it is a MAJOR one.

Advantages: a delight to own- no-one smiles at a man driving a Mondeo
Disadvantages: Not a one-off investment- it takes money sometimes

...I am an absolute fanatic about cars of yesteryear. I don?t mean the old crocs that needed a man carrying a red flag in front of it, what I mean is the cars that were developed and which sold in their droves from the early 1950s until the 1970s. These are the cars that brought the joys of motoring to ?normal? people in this great land of ours. They are the true classics. The car that I love is arguably the most popular classic car in the whole world. It was the first British production car to sell more than one million examples, and came in various guises, such as two and four-door saloons, two-door convertibles, wooden-clad estates, as well as pick up and van versions. It is the car that has long been considered a joke, associated with district nurses and country vicars. It was the star of the 1948 motor show. It is the Morris Minor...

Nolly 24.01.2002 (04.01.2004) · Read review
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Cubz - a minority - reporting

Advantages: A darn good yarn, not so much a whodunnit, as a who's-gonna-do-it
Disadvantages: Some stunts and effects felt wrong

...I?ve never really been a Tom Cruise fan, but lately, I?m kind of warming to the guy, I went to see Vanilla Sky a while back, and was blown away by the whole thing, so I was quite eager to see Minority Report? Basically, the plot revolves around John Anderton (Cruise), the head of an elite team of ?pre-crime? police officers, who arrest people for crimes they have yet to commit, as seen by the ?pre-cogs?, three genetically mutated humans whose accidental power of pre-cognition has been harnessed to foresee and prevent murders before they happen. Anderton joined the pre-crime division to prevent anyone else from feeling the pain he suffers, caused by the loss of his young son, but whilst receiving information from the pre-cogs, concerning the next murder to take place, he is stunned to discover that *he* is the next murderer. As...

Cubz 05.07.2002 · Read review
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Apparently I'm not in the minority...

Advantages: see op
Disadvantages: see op

......this time. Unlike the thorough drubbing I gave Vanilla Sky, I think my praise of Minority Report is going to fit right in with the other good things that have been said about it, and with reason: This is a great film. Did we expect anything less from Spielberg? Washington DC, 2054, and "pre-cognitives" can predict murder before it happens. It is a six-year project on the brink of nationalisation and Det. John Anderton (TOM CRUISE) is the best in the business at bringing in the criminals before the crime is actually committed. He's (surprise!) the golden boy, personal friend of the man in charge, Lamar Burgess (MAX VON SYDOW), and everything is going to plan until Danny Witwer (I think that's his name!) (COLIN FARRELL) appears on the scene, a federal representative eager to uncover the moral ramifications of the "pre...

ruth_cole 05.07.2002 (09.07.2002) · Read review
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minority report DVD reveiew

Advantages: good spielberg/cruise action
Disadvantages: in my view none but some people will not like it

...to clear his name is to find out if he has a minority report which is when one of the three precogs disagrees with the others so the crime is not guaranteed to happen but the only way to find out is to break in to the pre crime headquarters and kidnap Agatha because she is the most psychic of them. This film has a great futuristic view, the scene when he is jumping from car to car on the magnetic motorway is amazing and the way all the buildings and interiors have been made to look is very realistic to what they might look like in 50 years time. This film was a massive hit at the cinema making over $230m worldwide and £20m in the uk alone so this film looks certain to been a massive hit on DVD. If you liked films like A.I. or Blade Runner you will love this, because in my view the writer Phillip K Dick is on of the best around...

andrew007 18.11.2002 (28.11.2002) · Read review
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