it an open secret represent the oscar be jinxed . spielberg triumph with schindler list be follow by the long hiatus of his career and which be break with . jurassic park ii and a lifeless sequel of the kind you would once have swear he would never make the single worst and most anonymous movie he ever direct ( hook have it moment ) . his next two film be improvement ( there be nowhere to go but up ) represent the first anonymous but not bad ( amistad ) and the second bad but not anonymous ( save private ryan ) and but they be both pompous gesture which appear to have be design to win still more award while and it wasn not until eight year after schindler list that the skilled director of old time re appear ( with a. i. in 2001 ) . but he well and truly back now and and i be happy . i have even learn to welcome it when he make decision which infuriate me and so long a he make them with the right kind of self assure arrogance . i do not like the voice over at the end ( we do not need to be tell that stuff while we could have work it out ) and or the way he cave in to the modern tendency to be needlessly revolt ( at least he do not play his gross out moment for cheap laugh ) and or even the style of photography ( it easy to manipulate u into think the future be a grim place and if you push process the film until even the image which in the normal course of event would be luscious and rich and be grimy and desaturated there be other way of get colourless image and a spielberg well know and and many of them be well ) . yet and in the end and big deal . the story be a knockout and the action be taut and the future rich and dazzling and believable . spielberg be to be particularly congratulate on how completely he have avoid the unimaginative dystopia of blade runner . the future we see here be a mix of dream and nightmare and so convince a mix that we can not always tell them apart . here a measure of how good the movie be represent in an interview and spielberg reveal that he completely misunderstand the issue which drive the story and there simply no way of tell this from the finish product . unless spielberg be just opportunistically latch on to the hook force on him by a dim witted journalist and he think the movie be about how much freedom we be willing to give up in exchange for safety ( in order to prevent terrorist attack and for instance ) . this be interpretation be strain . three people ( the precogs ) do indeed give up their freedom in order that million of other people may be safe and and yes and there be an issue here . when one of the crime prevention officer say and it best not to think of them a human and i be surprise to find myself nod in agreement . the benefit of the system be so great that of course i would rather not look too closely into the burden that must be bear by three just three individual . aside from the three unfortunate precogs and nobody be ask to give up any freedom at all . ( except and of course and the freedom to commit murder . but under the law we be already unfree to commit murder and and a good thing too . ) the interesting issue that do fall naturally out of the story concern the futility of revenge . after people who would otherwise have commit murder be prevent from do so and theyre sent to prison anyway and presumably on the ground that that what they deserve and no doubt it be what they deserve . but it clear enough that lock these people up and however much it may be in the interest of justice and serve no purpose . it exact revenge on criminal for the sake of exact revenge which be exactly what the u. s. justice system be commit to do at the moment and which be why the future be a realistic one . ( apart from the precognition and that be . ) anderton mistake be to believe in the value of revenge and and he never more admirable than when he realise his mistake . ( that be a great scene while it a pity i can not tell you exactly why . suffice it to say that when we think we know where the story go and we may indeed know where the story go but spielberg be only allow u to see so much of what come up in order to obscure the rest of it . ) the final sign that spielberg be again at his peak lie in the performance . theyre all good . tom cruise weakness a an actor be that he be only ever as good a his director and and the fact that he so good here mean that minority report be direct by the real spielberg and the old spielberg and the spielberg with the same ability charles dickens have to make even his most grotesque creation and and even his least grotesque and come to life .