All we have in "Minority Report" is a movie that serves the common goals of both Spielberg and Cruise at crucial points in their careers. Spielberg wants to be taken seriously and wants to avoid the orbital pull of ET, Indiana Jones..which were entertaining movies, but only earned him studio, but not artistic respect from Hollywood. He had to wait until Schindler's List before receiving an Oscar. Nonetheless, aside from Schindlers, all of his movies feature one dimensional, simple, cartoon like characters. Ironically, I think Jaws was the last movie where Spielberg created real, full characters.
Now Tom Cruise, will always act Tom Cruise. He is turning 40 and in several more years look kind of foolish next to young co-stars. So he doesn't want to end up like Harrison Ford or Kevin Costner. Hence, he has to do movies which validate him as a "senior", leading man. Minority Report works for him because it is action without being too Top Gun-nish.
The above post was right: this is just a big budget, A-list remake of Van Damme's "Time Cop".
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All we have in "Minority Report" is a movie that serves the common goals of both Spielberg and Cruise at crucial points in their careers. Spielberg wants to be taken seriously and wants to avoid the orbital pull of ET, Indiana Jones..which were entertaining movies, but only earned him studio, but not artistic respect from Hollywood. He had to wait until Schindler's List before receiving an Oscar. Nonetheless, aside from Schindlers, all of his movies feature one dimensional, simple, cartoon like characters. Ironically, I think Jaws was the last movie where Spielberg created real, full characters.
Now Tom Cruise, will always act Tom Cruise. He is turning 40 and in several more years look kind of foolish next to young co-stars. So he doesn't want to end up like Harrison Ford or Kevin Costner. Hence, he has to do movies which validate him as a "senior", leading man. Minority Report works for him because it is action without being too Top Gun-nish.
The above post was right: this is just a big budget, A-list remake of Van Damme's "Time Cop".