Minority Report (film) what the movie signified in his development as a filmmaker. Andrew O'Hehir of the online magazine "Salon" expressed excitement over the atypically hard edge of the movie. "Little Steven Spielberg is all grown up now...into of all things a superior film artist...It's too early to know whether "Minority Report", on the heels of "A.I.", marks a brief detour in Spielberg's career or a permanent change of course, but either way it's a dark and dazzling spectacle." J. Hoberman of "The Village Voice" said it is "the most entertaining, least pretentious genre movie Steven Spielberg has made in the decade since
The Minority Report living condition of the precogs and the imprisonment of would-be criminals are necessary consequences for the greater good of a safe society. When his own autonomy comes under attack, Anderton retains this faith and convinces himself that the system has somehow been corrupted. Anderton struggles to find an appropriate balance between Precrime authority and individual liberty. Ultimately, Anderton decides to kill Leopold Kaplan to affirm the majority report and thereby preserve the validity of the Precrime system. Philip K. Dick: "Minority Report" (Gollancz: London, 2002) ( or ) (contains nine short stories by Dick, including most of those that were