![]() The garish, fractured visuals may cause some in the audience to experience déjà vu: Can it be that the Pre-cogs are channeling the credit sequence from Seven? The images they transmit are displayed in haphazard fragments on a giant screen before which Anderton stands like a maestro, sorting out the pictures with sweeping waves of his arms. Tom Cruise plays John Anderton, who runs the Justice Department's Precrime unit, which acts on evidence provided by three human "Pre-cogs" who float in a liquid suspension chamber and can see visions of future murders. Hope is pitted, rather unsuccessfully, against dystopia - or is it dyspepsia? The result is one of the glummest and most forbidding thrillers ever. Like A.I., Minority Report is a movie in furious conflict with itself. The oppressiveness, of course, is intentional, but is it necessary? High-concept science-fiction escapades often try to impose new ways of seeing, but Spielberg seems intent on blistering our optic nerves. Set in the year 2054, Steven Spielberg's Minority Report looks clammy and bleached-out.
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