Posted by Duffless at hide101.suffolk.edu on July 08, 2002 at 09:19:12:
In Reply to: Minority Report Problem with Story posted by Spider-Man Rules on July 07, 2002 at 22:45:17:
Why was Tom Cruise set up to begin with, Max von Siedow wasn't even close to being caught by cruise, nobody knew about the minority reports, so why did he go to the elaborate trouble of setting cruise up, especially since it was about to go national, there would be many more people who could stumble upon the crime and figure it out why was he only worring about Cruise, and wouldn't have been easier to get cruise kicked off the force for being a drug addict?
: Finally Saw Minority Report.. ->> SPOILER ALERT!!! << --
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: WARNING: SPOILERS FOLLOW
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: Okay, the film is good. Not great, but very good. I like it 100 times better than AI, and 50 times better than AOTC.
: The one major problem I had with the story is as follows:
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: When he returns to find the Minority Report at the lab and kidnaps the female, he uses his old eye to gain entrance to the building.
: This is 2054 we're talking about in the film.
: Here in 2002 when you're fired or asked to leave a job, let alone on the lamb for murder, your access to EVERYTHING is immediately cut. All access cards are turned in, and you are usually escorted out of the building by cops should you try and assasinate your boss or something on the way to your car.
: Do things change so much in 50 years that we allow people to keep access to the most secret labs in the world after they're accused of a crime and on the lamb for pre-murder?
: Plus, on top of that, after he uses his old eyes to get the female, it's nearly two or three days later when his wife uses his eyes AGAIN to bust into the jail to get him out. Wouldn't they have seen in the logs his old eyes were used to get into the lab and cut off his access then? Perhaps they fucked up by nothing cutting off his access when he went on the lamb to begin with, but a second time too? That just doesn't make any sense at all, perhaps we're more trusting in the future. This is something I couldn't make myself ignore. If he had to tunnel under the pool to get to the girl, or some other way to gain entrance, I would have had no other real issues with the story.. (I think)..
: All in all, it was a fun film, a bit too long, the spiders were cool, Cruise was a tool. The film could have been 20-30 mins shorter.
: I just think with Spielface all over the news talking about how accurate this future vision is and he has such a glaring hole in the film is funny.