Since its release, Minority Report has been critically reevaluated and retrospective reviews have called it one of the best films for both Cruise and Spielberg and placed it among the best science fiction films of the 2000s. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Sound Editing, and eleven Saturn Award nominations, including Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Saturn Award for Best Music, winning Best Science Fiction Film, Best Direction, Best Writing, and Best Supporting Actress. Praise was given to Cruise's performance, Spielberg's directing, action sequences, and visual effects, though some criticism was focused on the running time and the complexity of the plot that critics felt was too difficult for audiences.
Upon its release, the film grossed over $358 million against a production budget of $102 million, becoming 2002's tenth most-successful film worldwide. Minority Report was one of the most anticipated films of 2002 due to the high profile collaboration between Cruise and Spielberg, as well as a surge in blockbusters in the wake of the September 11 attacks. During pre-production, Spielberg consulted numerous scientists in an attempt to present a more plausible future world than that seen in other science fiction films, and some of the technology designs in the film have proven prescient. running over schedule, eventually starting in March 2001. Production suffered many delays due to Cruise's Mission: Impossible 2 and Spielberg's A.I. The film was first optioned in 1992 as a sequel to another Dick adaptation Total Recall with Arnold Schwarzenegger set to reprise his role as Doug Quaid, but after Total Recall production company Carolco Pictures filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the project was reworked into a stand-alone project and started its development in 1997, after a script by Jon Cohen reached Spielberg and Cruise. Spielberg has characterized the story as "fifty percent character and fifty percent very complicated storytelling with layers and layers of murder mystery and plot". The film combines elements of tech noir, whodunit, thriller and science fiction genres, as well as a traditional chase film, as the main protagonist is accused of a crime he has not committed and becomes a fugitive. The cast stars Tom Cruise as Precrime Chief John Anderton, Colin Farrell as Department of Justice agent Danny Witwer, Samantha Morton as precog Agatha Lively, and Max von Sydow as Precrime director Lamar Burgess. and Northern Virginia in the year 2054, where Precrime, a specialized police department, apprehends criminals based on foreknowledge provided by three psychics called " precogs".
Minority Report is a 2002 American science fiction action film directed by Steven Spielberg, loosely based on the 1956 short story " The Minority Report" by Philip K.
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