Minority Report

Directed by Steven Spielberg

On general release

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For those of us in the business of predicting other people's behaviour, Minority Report is a timely reminder of human fallibility. The intriguing premise of this film is that within a few decades a combination of high tech brain imaging and old fashioned Delphic mysticism will allow fragmentary glimpses of future murders to be harvested from the uneasy dreams of a trio of drugged psychics.

This future society chooses to use the power of this precognitive technology to pursue the laudable goal of preventing murder. …