History YMMV / MinorityReport

* IdiotPlot: There really is no good reason for Anderton to go after Leo Crow. Avoiding him until the time of his murder was over and returning to find out what happened later would have been a more sensibile thing to do. Also, Lamar likely could have easily killed Anne Lively outside of Pre Crim's jurisdiction, making his need to try and fool the system unnecessary.

*** It's a science-fictional extrapolation of current criminal investigation techniques; a few decades ago, who would have predicted that people would be convicted based on microscopic organic residue, or evidence reconstructed from fragments of years-buried human bone? The precogs are simply another unexpected source of evidence. In the "brown ball" prevision arrest, the precops show up ''seconds'' before the murder is committed. The commercials for Precrime show that this is ''not'' an isolated incident - the precops are used to yanking weapons from murderers' hands right in front of their victims. Changing the future does not change the intent behind people's actions. The reason Precrime is abandoned is not because it doesn't work, but because of the cost to innocent lives; the Minority Reports and the precogs themselves.

*** It's a science-fictional extrapolation of current criminal investigation techniques; a few decades ago, who would have predicted that people would be convicted based on microscopic organic residue, or evidence reconstructed from fragments of years-buried human bone? The precogs are simply another unexpected source of evidence. In the "brown ball" prevision arrest, the precops show up ''seconds'' before the murder is committed. The commercials for Precrime show that this is ''not'' an isolated incident - the precops are used to yanking weapons from murderers' hands right in front of their victims. Changing the future does not change the intent behind people's actions. The reason Precrime is abandoned is not because it doesn't work, but
because of the cost to innocent lives; the Minority Reports and the precogs themselves.

*** It's a science-fictional extrapolation of current criminal investigation techniques; a few decades ago, who would have predicted that people would be convicted based on microscopic organic residue, or evidence reconstructed from fragments of years-buried human bone? The precogs are simply another unexpected source of evidence. In the "brown ball" prevision arrest, the precops show up ''seconds'' before the murder is committed. The commercials for Precrime show that this is ''not'' an isolated incident - the precops are used to yanking weapons from murderer's hands right in front of their victims. Changing the future does not change the intent behind people's actions. The reason Precrime is abandoned is not because it doesn't work, but

** Precrime might work, but the sentencing procedure is still all ''wrong''. People are being jailed for murder without the possibility of parole, effectively having been given a FateWorseThanDeath, with the justification that because they ''did'' commit the crime in future, they ''are'' guilty of it. Despite the fact that by preventing them from ever having committed the crime, they haven't actually done ''anything'' illegal, yet still treated as if they ''had''. In fact, they claim that it's because YouCantFightFate, yet if that was true, the murders would still happen?! They fight fate ''all the time!'' All in all, the most you could convict someone of is either attempted murder or conspiracy to commit murder.

** The fact that not even [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] could bring himself to review the game when offered truly speaks volumes.

* IdiotBall: Anderton learns that he's been predicted to go to a specific place at a specific time to kill someone he's never met. Even though he absolutely believes in Precrime, he is convinced this particular vision is bunk because he has no motivation that he knows of. Since he's aware of where and when he will commit this murder, the logical thing to do would be to hide himself until such time that the vision is rendered invalid, at worst proving that the Precogs' vision was wrong (or, one could argue, was prevented because he himself chose to prevent it). The subsequent investigation could then be carried out at his leisure. Instead, he follows the vision to the best of his ability, thus placing him in that situation and allowing himself to be easily framed.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Bach's "Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring" is used ''very'' well.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Really the only problem with precrime is the fact that Director Burgess murdered Anne Lively instead of taking it the courts and leaving it in their hands if the woman should be given her daughter back. Outside of a complicated coverup to murder Lively and the rights of the precogs, precrime really ''does'' work.

* IdiotBall: Anderton learns that he's been predicted to go to one place at one time and kill someone. He responds by going to that exact time and place, allowing himself to be easily framed, when he could have just stayed away until after the murder was supposed to happen and made sure he had a good alibi for that time. Figuring out who tried to set him up could wait until they've failed.

** The fact that not even [[TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] could bring himself to review the game when offered truly speaks volumes.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Film}} Have a nice trip to containment...]]
** Honestly, the AndIMustScream life of the precogs is a little terrifying.

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: Honestly, the AndIMustScream life of the precogs is a little terrifying.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The chase sequence with the jetpack cops. Five minutes of action that is oddly comedic as we see average people like a boy playing a saxophone react to jetpacks flying through the housing complex.
** Also the scene where Anderton jumps off of his car through a window only to be greeted by about fifteen women oddly contorted in some form of yoga. It is never mentioned again.

* NauseaFuel: The ''other'' bottle of milk and sandwich.
** Sick sticks. Likely much more effective than a nightstick, but potentially much worse if they're aiming at you.
*** And probably incredibly painful if you have an empty stomach when you get sticked.

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: The video game version has a different-looking, blond Anderton, as TomCruise's likeness couldn't be licensed.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The chase sequence with the jetpack cops. Five minutes of straight slapstick in an otherwise ''very'' serious movie.

* TheWoobie: The three Precogs. They were born to heroin addicts and spent all of their lives having nightmares about murders. Then, people started to get wind of this and whisked them off and did unmentioned (but implied to be nasty) things to them. Then the Precog system was set up, which meant that they were forced to spend years and years lying in a drugged stupor in a pool, watching endless future murders. Oh, and the one time we hear about one of the parents trying to save her child from that, she's murdered. And said child is forced to watch her own mother's death and then watch as everyone ignores it.

* AdaptationDisplacement: [=~Philip K. Dick~=] is the accidental master of this trope.

* TheWoobie: The three Precogs. They were born to heroin addicts and spent all of their lives having nightmares about murders. Then, people started to get wind of this and whisked them off and did unmentioned (but implied to be nasty) things to them. Then the Precog system was set up, which meant that they were forced to spend years and years lying in a drugged stupor in a pool, watching endless future murders. Oh, and the one time we hear about one of the parents trying to save her child from that, she's murdered. And said child is forced to watch her own mother's death and then watch as everyone ignores it.