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
Technologies in Minority Report inspired user interfaces. Retina scanners, a form of biometrics, already existed by the time the film appeared in theaters, but media outlets have described the new advanced systems such as those by a Manhattan company named Global Rainmakers Incorporated (GRI) (2010), as similar to the movie's. GRI disputed the notion that its technology could be the threat to privacy it is in the film. "Minority Report is one possible outcome," a corporate official told "Fast Company". "I don't think that's our company's aim, but I think what we're going to see is an environment well beyond what you see in