History YMMV / MinorityReport

** Also the fact that some people have to have their [[EyeScream eyes removed and replaced]] by a BackAlleyDoctor to evade the [[BigBrotherIsWatching pervasive retinal scans]].

* NightmareFuel: The AndIMustScream life of the precogs is a little terrifying.

** Nonetheless, the game is fondly by some in a [[SoBadItsGood So Bad It's Good]] kind of way, with its hilariously bad [[RagdollPhysics ragdoll physics,]] numerous [[ClassicCheatCode cheat codes,]] and surprisingly deep [[StylishAction combat system.]]

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

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: The video game version has a different-looking, blond Anderton, as Creator/TomCruise's likeness couldn't be licensed. The game only vaguely follows the plot of the movie, Anderson acts like a completely different character, and the pre-crime organization is still in place at the end. It probably has more in common with ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd'' than the movie.

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

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: At a certain point, a television plays an episode of ''Series/{{Cops}}'', still on Fox (sister company of the film's distributor). The show had a ChannelHop to Spike TV on 2013 and was cancelled, probably for good, in 2020.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Jessica Capshaw (Spielberg's stepdaughter) has a small role as the Precrime pilot during the spider sequence; she went on to become a regular on ''Series/ThePractice'' (44 eps) and ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' (140+ eps).

* AwardSnub: Despite [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome astounding visual effects]], cinematography and [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic score]] (of course one from Music/JohnWilliams), it was only nominated for a single Oscar: Sound Editing.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: At a certain point, a television plays an episode of ''Series/{{Cops}}'', still on Fox (sister company of the film's distributor). The show had a ChannelHop to Spike TV on 2013.
** As of 2018, however, we have seen a few shows from the '80s and '90s revived, like ''Series/WillAndGrace'', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', and ''Series/{{Roseanne}}''. ''Cops'' and other live police shows continue to remain popular, so it's possible that in the future, Fox could bring the show back.

* AdaptationDisplacement: Creator/PhilipKDick is the accidental master of this trope.

* AwardSnub: It was only nominated for a single Oscar, for Sound Editing.

* MagnificentBastard: Lamar Burgess is the director and founder of the [[PreCrimeArrest Precrime program]], which uses premonitions extracted from three telepathic humans to predict and prevent all murder within the Washington D.C. area. However, at the same time Burgess is cunning enough to have literally made a career out of faking out Precrime; first by disguising Anne Lively's murder as an "echo", then by disguising ''all three visions'' of Crow's death as brown balls by putting the plan in action while Anderton was at the office, ensuring that he would either be arrested immediately or run, so when Crow would be found with the OrgyOfEvidence that could lead Anderton to murder him, it looked planned by Anderton. When Federal Agent Danny Witwer catches on to him, Burgess prompty murders him, knowing that the system being deactivated will allow him to get away with it. The only thing Burgess couldn't see coming was Anderton figuring out everything in time to tell it all to his wife, even if he wasn't free to act on the information himself. However, even when his plot is exposed and faced with the impossible choice of either killing Anderton and going to prison or letting him live and discredit Precrime, Burgess manages to go out on his own terms by killing himself instead.

* MagnificentBastard: Lamar Burgess is the director and founder of the [[PreCrimeArrest Precrime program]], which uses premonitions extracted from three telepathic humans to predict and prevent all murder within the Washington D.C. area. However, at the same time Burgess is cunning enough to have literally made a career out of faking out Precrime; first by disguising Anne Lively's murder as an "echo", then by disguising ''all three visions'' of Crow's death as brown balls by putting the plan in action while Anderton was at the office, ensuring that he would either be arrested immediately or run, so when Crow would be found with the OrgyOfEvidence that could lead Anderton to murder him, it looked planned by Anderton. The only thing Burgess couldn't see coming was Anderton figuring out everything in time to tell it all to his wife, even if he wasn't free to act on the information himself. However, even when his plot is exposed and faced with the impossible choice of either killing Anderton and going to prison or letting him live and discredit Precrime, Burgess manages to go out on his own terms by killing himself instead.

* MagnificentBastard: [[spoiler:Lamar Burgess. He literally made a career out of faking out Precrime; first by disguising Anne Lively's murder as an "echo", then by disguising ''all three visions'' of Crow's death as brown balls by putting the plan in action while Anderton was at the office, ensuring that he would either be arrested immediately or run, so when Crow be found with the OrgyOfEvidence that could lead Anderton to murder it looked planned by Anderton. The only thing Burgess [[DidntSeeThatComing couldn't see coming]] was Anderton figuring out everything in time to tell it all to his wife, even if he wasn't free to act on the information himself.]]

* 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 when [[{{Squick}} Dr. Iris Hineman kisses Anderton]] for no reason and no reaction from the latter.
*** I believe the purpose of that was linking Anderton's son's remark that he only kisses his mother on the lips and Hineman saying she was the mother of precrime.

* HarsherInHindsight: Ads in this film seem to know the targets' names, personal tastes, and the like. Come the age of selling users' personal information to third-party companies for advertising purposes...

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

* SuicideByCop: Attempted, averted, succeeded.

* StrawmanHasAPoint:
** Witwer's objection that Precrime arrests people for murders they didn't actually commit is rebutted by saying they were ''going'' to. Perhaps so, but they ''didn't'', because Precrime prevented it. How can anyone be guilty of a murder which didn't happen? It's easy to agree with him on this, though possible they might be guilty of some lesser crime in certain cases (like ''attempted'' murder).

* AwardSnub: Was only nominated for a single Oscar, for Sound Editing.

** 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 very complicated coverup to murder Lively and the questionable treatment of the precogs, Precrime really ''does'' work.
** There is also the issue of just how rare minority reports actually are. Iris states that a Precrime suspect might have a possible alternate future in which they do ''not'' commit their ascribed murder, but adds that this happens only "every once in a while," and as Lamar points out towards the end of the film, the comparative rarity of that -- even when combined with the PoweredByAForsakenChild treatment of the Precogs -- is simply not relevant when weighed against the much, much more common occurrence of soon-to-be murderers who have no alternate futures and so are guaranteed to successfully murder their victims if Precrime doesn't intervene first. So, really, which is the smarter reaction: restructuring Precrime so that the police simply don't pursue a murder suspect when and if they're shown to have a possible alternate future? Or, as they do in the film, shutting ''the entire system'' down after that just because of a relatively small number of false positives?
** Also there is the CentralTheme of the [[Series/MinorityReport2015 2015]] SequelSeries - what steps should the government take to keep its citizens secure? What sacrifices are permissible? What is the suffering of three "[[TheyWouldCutYouUp genetic freaks]]" compared to the lives they could save if they were [[PoweredByAForsakenChild kept drugged and plugged into computers]]? What is [[LibertyOverProsperity forsaking privacy compared to a world without crime]]? Perhaps most importantly; once the government has that much power, ''who could stop it from doing anything else it wants?''
** Danny Witwer objection that Precrime arrests people for murders they didn't actually commit is rebutted by saying they were ''going'' to. Perhaps so, but they ''didn't'', because Precrime prevented it. How can anyone be guilty of a crime which didn't happen? It's easy to agree with him on this, though possible they might be guilty of some lesser crime in certain cases (like ''attempted'' murder).

** [[spoiler: After Danny is murdered, the scene with John pointing his gun at Witwer's throat becomes almost painful, knowing that later in the movie, it will be the same gun used to muder him.]]

* IdiotPlot: The entire plot relies upon the fact that Anderton, a man whose job is literally to avert pre-destined murder, wouldn't think to avert a pre-destined murder he is supposed to commit when he knows for a fact where and when he'll commit it. The film justifies this by noting that Anderton wants to prove his innocence, but the fact remains that Anderton himself literally says out loud exactly what he should do then allows himself to be talked out of it by Dr. Iris Hineman, even though her logic (how can he avoid a man he's never met) is flawed because he knows where (in general terms, at least, enough to know what to avoid) and when the meeting takes place.

** 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 questionable treatment of the precogs, precrime really ''does'' work - the problem with the system in the film is actually the DisproportionateRetribution of denying the suspects a trial and the possibility of parole.
** There is also the issue of just how rare minority reports actually are. Iris states that a Pre-crime suspect might have a possible alternate future in which they do ''not'' commit their ascribed murder, but adds that this happens only "every once in a while," and as Lamar points out towards the end of the film, the comparative rarity of that -- even when combined with the PoweredByAForsakenChild treatment of the Precogs -- is simply not relevant when weighed against the much, much more common occurrence of soon-to-be murderers who have no alternate futures and so are guaranteed to successfully murder their victims if Pre-crime doesn't intervene first. So, really, which is the smarter reaction: restructuring Pre-crime so that the police simply don't pursue a murder suspect when and if they're shown to have a possible alternate future? Or, as they do in the film, shutting ''the entire system'' down just because of a relatively small number of false positives?
*** ...Aaand there's the CentralTheme of the [[Series/MinorityReport2015 2015]] SequelSeries - what steps should the government take to keep its citizens secure? What sacrifices are permissible? What is the suffering of three "[[TheyWouldCutYouUp genetic freaks]]" compared to the lives they could save if they were [[PoweredByAForsakenChild kept drugged and plugged into computers]]? What is [[LibertyOverProsperity forsaking privacy compared to a world without crime]]? Perhaps most importantly; once the government has that much power, ''who could stop it from doing anything else it wants?''

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

* IdiotPlot: The entire plot relies upon the fact that Anderton, a man whose job is literally to avert pre-destined murder, wouldn't think to avert a pre-destined murder he is supposed to commit when he knows for a fact where and when he'll commit it. The film justifies this by noting that Anderton wants to prove his innocence, but the fact remains that Anderton himself literally says out loud exactly what he should do then allows himself to be talked out of it by Dr. Iris Hineman, even though her logic (how can he avoid a man he's never met) is flawed because he knows exactly where and when the meeting takes place.

* 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 sensible thing to do. Also, Lamar likely could have easily killed Anne Lively outside of Pre Crime's jurisdiction, making his need to try and fool the system unnecessary.
*** Except him planning that within the reach of the pre-cogs would have popped up a brown ball.
** Yeah, not going after Crow might have been more sensible - but we are speaking with the benefit of hindsight here. Caught up in the heat of the moment, Anderton's judgement is clouded by doubt, panic, curiosity and disbelief. As Witwer points out, Anderton ''won't'' just run and hide, "because he thinks he's innocent". Even when Agatha tries to get Anderton to turn away from his "destiny", Anderton won't, as he is so driven to find out what is happening.

* ParanoiaGambit: This troper has always felt that this was a [[RestrainedRevenge small revenge]] the surgeon had on Anderton (see ParanoiaFuel on the Main Page). This, and a couple of rotten sandwiches.