Minority Report
Saw this at the Tricycle tonight, with J, D and A.
Great movie: a little boy/geeky, but I guess I am too. It's based on a Philip K Dick short story, and set in 2054, where there is a Department of Pre-Crime. The amazing thing about 2054 is that it looks remarkably like Habitat in a Tom Dixon kind of way. And all the same brands sill exist and evidently still do product placement in movies; Gap, Lexus, Nokia, Amex. Unlike the future I imagine where there'll be one giant corporate called M&S-AOL-Warbug-Cola or something. And the VR club in the third act looks suspiciously like Lenny Kravit'z Miami house.
It's way too long; I had the desire to edit out huge swathes of the story, and the first act takes an hour to get going. So it's an hour before you really know what the movie's about - not how Bob says you should do it, at all.
I think it's trying to say something philosophically deep about predestination, but I don't know whether I'm not very bright or it didn't actually say it. And the prodcut placement really gets in your face. I'm guessing Nokia came in late, because their logos have a just-pasted-on-later look that grates on the eye. Big time.
Overall rating: See it. See it now.
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