I think Spielberg’s broken.
Ok, so I’ve just checked out a preview of Minority Report. I wasn’t sure what to expect of it, I had not heard anything really good about the movie and considering the last movie that Spielberg made (A.I.) I was kinda wary. The story was by Philip K. Dick and I have a very high opinion of Colin Farrell were the plus points.
Concept is not bad at all, the ideas behind it could have been used to make a really good movie and this appears to be what is going to happen. The setup works well, nice and simple but it gets everything across and when the story kicks off it works for the first hour or so. The pace is way off (just like A.I.) and when the film finally leads to the climax or at least what you expect to be the climax it is in fact not and continues on needlessly for another 45 minutes or so. The entire downward spiral a movie that so far was allright can be pointed to exactly at the moment he says “if you kill me, my family don’t get anything”. Had the vision of the murder simply come to be I would have left happy enough I had seen a decent movie. No setup, no nothing just a simple payoff of a concept.
Colin Farrell was solid for sure but his entire character made no sense, one moment he is investigating Pre-Crime for flaws, next minute he is having a punch up with Tom Cruise’s character and then he is solving crimes…hmmm
More tomorrow, I gotta go pack.
I have quite a few things I want to talk about, I just don’t feel I can talk about them here, or rather it would not really be appropriate. I am so looking forward to a week off so I don’t have to worry about crap like that.