Minority Report

The Minority Report


This film is set in the future and stars Tom Cruise and Colin Farrell. The plot is that psychics can predict when a crime is going to happen, and the police can arrest the person before the crime is committed. However, one of the crimes is supposedly committed by a police officer. He then gets chased by various other officers/technologies until he finds the truth. The best bit in the film is when Tom Cruise has an operation to change his retinas so he cannot be recognised. It’s really quiet and then there is a scratching and it is these little robots looking for him; they are heat seeking so he lies in a bath of cold water. This really builds up the suspense.

I think sometimes quieter ‘chases’ are more effective- although sometimes at the end of the period of quiet a loud noise or scary image is introduced to frighten the audience.