Minority Report is set in the future when there is virtually no murders in the Washington D.C. area. Tom Cruise’s character Chief John Anderton is part of the precrime unit that has the ability to predict and prevent murders that are about to take place. The person caught about to murder someone is then place in a cryo type sleep.

Only problem for Anderton is, his name is about to come up, predicting he is going to murder someone. Now he’s in a race against time to find out who the prediction says he’s going to kill and to clear his name. While he’s doing all this, he’s being pursued by his old team of cops.

He eventually learns that sometimes, there is a hiccup in the predictions, and a minority report is created from this hiccup. Anderton, knowing he’s not going to kill anyone, needs his minority report.

Overall, a great action packed film with twists and turns from beginning to end. It was a great film when it was madde and still is.

Budget: $102 million
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring:
Tim Cruise
Max von Sydow
Steve Harris
Neal McDonough
Patrick Kilpatrick
Jessica Capshaw

Jodie Foster really takes a beating in this film. Her character, Erica Bain and her fiancee are attacked one night by three hoodlums. They kill her fiancee and beat her within an inch of her life. After she recovers, she’s left with the mental scars the attack inflicted on her. Not getting help from the police, Foster decides to take matters into her own hands. In the end, she saves several people and kills the hoodlums that attacked them in the beginning.

This is a very good, emotional, and deep movie. A must watch.

Budget: $70 million
Director: Neil Jordan
Starring:
Jodie Foster
Terrence Howard
Naveen Andrews
Zoë Kravitz
Mary Steenburgen

This situation can actually happen to any one of us. If we receive an anonymous emergency call on our cell line, will we treat it as a prank or as a real one? If it is a real emergency, will we risk our lives to help a stranger out or left him/her in the cold? That is a real dilemma. Watch how this film turns out.

It has a very interesting story that all started with a crime of passion. Andy Dufresne, the calm soft-spoken banker (played by Tim Robbins) was convicted of killing his wife and her extra-marital lover. His life in prison was far from good. It’s a good thing that I’ve seen this movie when I was a little older. Had I seen this movie when I was still a little younger, I could’ve been one jaded cynical person. Life in prison was no joke, and this movie clearly depicts the scenario (solitary confinement/ violence/sex), although the sex wasn’t capitalized in this movie.

I don’t watch prison movies, but I don’t know why I was led to watch this movie (including THE GREEN MILE…but that’s a different story). I did not regret watching this film at all. In fact, I have watched this movie over 10 times (several times on VHS, on cable, on DVD) at different stages of my life. I’ve watched it as a budding adult and I’ve seen it as an adult. It just gets better each time. The older I get, the more I appreciate it. It is one great piece of Stephen King work. Inspite the prison scenario, it’s a story of hope, patience, endurance, and friendship. Perhaps what Stephen King wanted to convey is the message that, in every trial and suffering in life, the Heavens will never abandon as long as we hold on to our hope. As the movie’s tagline suggests, hope can set you free.