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Minority Report is a 2002 American cyberpunk [6] action film [7] directed by Steven Spielberg, loosely based on Philip K. Dick's 1956 novella The Minority Report.The film takes place in the Washington metropolitan area in 2054, in which a specialized police department—Precrime—apprehends criminals by use of foreknowledge provided by three psychics called "precogs".
In the movie, Anderton kidnaps a precog in order to discover his own "minority report" and extract the information for a mysterious crime. In the film, a major plot point was that there was no minority report. The story ends with Anderton describing how the minority report was based on his knowledge of the other two reports.
[26] According to film critic J. Hoberman, Minority Report "visualizes (as well as demonstrates) a future where the unconscious has been thoroughly colonized." [27] When the movie first appeared in theaters a common source of reviewers' complaints was the film's product placement, which they found intrusive. [28]
Minority Report is a 2002 American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg, loosely based on the 1956 short story "The Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick.The film is set in Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia in the year 2054, where Precrime, a specialized police department, apprehends criminals based on foreknowledge provided by three psychics called "precogs".
The Guardian published a piece titled "Why Minority Report was spot on" in June 2010, [14] and the following month Fast Company examined seven crime fighting technologies in the film similar to ones then currently appearing. It summarized that "the police state imagined in the Tom Cruise flick feels a bit more real every day."
The Steven Spielberg-directed sci-fi thriller Minority Report, released in theaters 20 years ago on Tuesday, had locked up Tom Cruise to play “precrime” chief John Anderton, who becomes the ...
2 Plot summary. 3 Inspiration. 4 References. 5 Adaptations. ... The story was adapted into a short movie in 1978. ... The Minority Report;
Minority Report, a 2002 film loosely adapted from Dick's short story Minority Report, a 2015 American television series on FOX that serves as a sequel adaptation of the novel and 2002 film; Minority Report: Everybody Runs, a 2002 video game based on the film; Minority Report, a 1956 book by H. L. Mencken