MINORITY REPORT
DVD Features:
- "Minority Report: From Story to Screen": Steven Spielberg recounts his approach to the film's characters and storyline
- "Deconstructing Minority Report": learn how Spielberg brought together a think tank of some of the world's most renowned minds and how this elite group conceived the near-future world of the film
- "The Stunts of Minority Report": how the thrilling action sequences and stunts were created
- "The Digital World of Minority Report": ILM explains the visual effects
- "Final Report": a discussion with Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise
- Minority Report Archives: production concepts, storyboard sequences, production photographs, production notes, and bios
- Widescreen anamorphic format
- Number of discs: 2
Review
Set in the chillingly possible future of 2054, Steven Spielberg's Minority Report is arguably the most intelligently provocative sci-fi thriller since Blade Runner. Like Ridley Scott's "future noir" classic, Spielberg's gritty vision was freely adapted from a story by Philip K. Dick, with its central premise of "Precrime" law enforcement, totally reliant on three isolated human "precogs" capable (due to drug-related mutation) of envisioning murders before they're committed. As Precrime's confident captain, Tom Cruise preempts these killings like a true action hero, only to run for his life when he is himself implicated in one of the precogs' visions. Inspired by the brainstorming of expert futurists, Spielberg packs this paranoid chase with potential conspirators (Max Von Sydow, Colin Farrell), domestic tragedy, and a heartbreaking precog pawn (Samantha Morton), while Cruise's performance gains depth and substance with each passing scene. Making judicious use of astonishing special effects, Minority Report brilliantly extrapolates a future that's utterly convincing, and too close for comfort.
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