Line #11 YMMV/MinorityReport


1	* AdaptationDisplacement: Creator/PhilipKDick is the accidental master of this trope. Some people actually prefer the movie's message, thanks to the Precrime Division being UnintentionallyUnsympathetic in the original story.
2	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Was Lamar [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide]] because his grand plans failed spectacularly and unexpectedly, or did he finally mentally break down from all the clandestine activities he had to perform to make Precrime work? Perhaps a combination of all of the above. More specifically, [[spoiler: was he just panicked over being exposed for murdering Anne Lively, and/or did Anderton going berserk over his missing son being used to drive him to murder [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone help break Lamar]] and start causing him to loathe what he became?]]
3	* AwardSnub: Despite [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome astounding visual effects]], cinematography and [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic score]] (of course one from Music/JohnWilliams), and being named as the best film of the year by no less than Creator/RogerEbert, it was only nominated for a single UsefulNotes/AcademyAward: Sound Editing.
4	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
5	** It's a Music/JohnWilliams score! For a highlight, the tension of the spider scene is greatly enhanced by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfR_FMVOAxo a track full of]] PsychoStrings.
6	** Bach's [[https://youtu.be/zJNHMQRooy4 "Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring"]] is used ''very'' well.
7	** The video game has an actual music video of The Apex Theory's [[https://youtu.be/kW2KaAgNcN4 "Apossibly"]], a song so awesome that it was used as the background music for the [[https://youtu.be/0Rwpim5HTjc "Sprawl Riot" level.]]
8	* 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.
9	* DelusionConclusion: The ending is considered by some viewers to be a little too happy to be realistic; as a result, a popular theory claims that [[spoiler: Anderton was never rescued in the climax and imagined the happy ending while under the LotusEaterMachine-like effects of containment. After all, Gideon stating that "all your dreams come true" when you're in cryosleep had to be there for a reason, right?]]
10	* HarsherInHindsight:
11	** At a certain point, a television plays an episode of ''Series/{{Cops}}'', still on Fox (then sister company of the film's co-distributor). The show had a ChannelHop to Spike TV on 2013 and was cancelled, probably for good, in 2020. Albeit that one could still work given the 2010s started a trend of show revivals, so who knows if by 2054 Fox wouldn't bring ''Cops'' back?
12	** 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...
13	* HilariousInHindsight: [[VideoGame/HeavyRain Press X to]] [[spoiler: SEAN!!!!]]
14	* MagnificentBastard: [[spoiler:Lamar Burgess is the director and founder of the [[PreCrimeArrest Precrime program]], and is dedicated to expanding the program no matter the cost. In the past when Precrime was threatened by Anne Lively, Burgess hired a man to kill her, stopped the murder using Precrime, then killed her himself to ensure that the Precrime image of him killing her was dismissed as an "echo" of the first attempt. When John Anderton came close to solving Anne's murder, Lamar hired a man to pretend to be the murderer of Anderton's son so Anderton would be driven to murder him and be arrested by Precrime. When Federal Agent Danny Witwer catches on to him, Burgess promptly murders him, knowing that the system being deactivated due to Anderton's actions will allow him to get away with it. Burgess' plan [[NearVillainVictory nearly succeeds]], as he sees Anderton arrested and Precrime is adopted nationwide before he's exposed. When 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.]]
15	* MemeticMutation: The scene where Anderton runs after his eyeballs became popular on Website/{{YTMND}}.
16	* NauseaFuel:
17	** The ''other'' bottle of milk and sandwich.
18	** 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.
19	* NoYay: The aforementioned kiss.
20	* OneSceneWonder: Lots of them. The movie's got an incredibly solid supporting cast.
21	** Special mention to Creator/PeterStormare who dominates his only scene as Dr. Solomon P. Eddie. It's an intensely memorable scene rife with BlackComedy derived from Stormare's hammily amusing yet skin-crawlingly creepy performance.
22	** As Iris Hineman, Lois Smith gives huge style and more than a hint of menace to what is basically a thankless expository single-scene role.
23	* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: The video game version, ''Minority Report: Everybody Runs,'' 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. And the gameplay is quite repetitive.
24	** Nonetheless, the game is fondly remembered by some in a SoBadItsGood kind of way, with its hilariously bad RagdollPhysics, numerous [[ClassicCheatCode cheat codes,]] and surprisingly deep [[StylishAction combat system.]]
25	* RetroactiveRecognition:
26	** Creator/JessicaCapshaw (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).
27	** [[Series/ColdCase Lily Rush]] is the wife of John Anderton.
28	* SpiritualSuccessor: With its classically philosophical and futuristic themes, and its running motifs applied to eyes, while also being based on a story by Creator/PhilipKDick, this could be considered to be an example of this trope for ''Film/BladeRunner''.
29	* TheWoobie: The three Precogs. They were born to FantasticDrug 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.

Context YMMV / MinorityReport