Minority Report

The weekend was fairly uneventful. I'm still fighting whatever bug has wiped me out for the past couple of weeks. Some days I feel fine and other days I can't sleep comfortably. It's frustrating, especially since my doctors agree to disagree on what is actually causing this mess.

I went to see "Minority Report" on Sunday, even though I am not a Tom Cruise fan. Somehow I missed the whole fuss over Cruise when "Top Gun" was released. While classmates were mooning over him, I was like "Who?"

I am a big science fiction fan and I really liked what I had seen in the previews. And for the most part, the movie lived up to its billing. The special effects were stunning, but they seemed to work for the story, rather than be the story. The futuristic DC was interesting. I wouldn't want that commute. It gives a new expression to the inner loop of the Beltway. And despite the precrime idea, it was hardly a utopia. There was still the dark underworld, the Sprawl.

However, if George Lucas has a problem with romantic dialogue, Speilberg has a tendency to resort to the "happy ending". I left being intrigued more by the original concept than how it turned out.