- When Anderton and Witwer have a slightly Star Wars-style fight on a factory's car assembly line, until the agent pins the hero to the line, jumps off, and the next scene is the hero screaming as a car seat (shotgun no less) is pounded, presumably, onto his face. Witwer and his agent posse walk along the assembly line, watching the car being built and thinking, "Oh boy, is that guy dead or what? I would not want to go out that way. Ouch." Then, the car is fully constructed and painted, and the agent gets a small smile on his face when... the hero's head looks out through the window, and he stares at them. Apparently, he had avoided all of the flailing mechanical arms and the car parts being welded together, while avoiding being seen. Witwer immediately gets an Oh, Crap! look on his face, as the hero drives the car out of the factory. Apparently, cars are made with a full tank and he already had the keys too.
- Car may come installed with a fully-charged fuel cell...
- Reportedly based on an idea Alfred Hitchcock had about a chase in a car factory where the hero has a car assembled around him and allows him to drive off.
- Well, it IS 2054.
- Car may come installed with a fully-charged fuel cell...
- The film, in true Spielberg fashion, is filled with virtuoso setpieces, including the Batman Cold Open showing off how the Precrime cops work (including the musical conductor-esque way Anderton scrubs the images for clues), the mall chase with Anderton pulling along a weakened and frightened Agatha (who in turn uses her abilities to evade the cops), and the confrontation between Anderton and Crow.
- The transparent displays the Precops "scrub the image" on and the way they do it via a glove-controlled interface (pictured).
- The whole action sequence with Anderton, after being tagged as a future murderer, leaving his car and hopping on top of other ones to escape as they vertically descend the MAGLEV highway.
- Towards the end of the film, when Anderton is in jail, his wife finds out that he's innocent and calmly walks into the prison with a gun and tells the guard that she will be having a talk with her husband. When the guard asks how she bypassed security, she plops her husband's surgically-removed eyes in front of him.
- When Anderton and Agatha are escaping from the mall, Agatha continuously uses her precognition to save them. It's chillingly awesome to watch how the seemingly trivial things she has Anderton do pan out to work in their favor. She even helps a random woman who's just walking past them.Agatha: (grabs woman's shirt) He knows. Don't go home.
- The moment when Anderton starts to read Miranda Rights to the guy he has every reason to believe kidnapped his son. Yes, he's a mourning father; yes, he had dreamed of what he was going to do to this guy with a half hour alone with him; yes, a precog foresaw that he would kill the guy, but Anderton is still a cop. And he still had a choice.
- At the end of the movie, Anderton exposes Burgess's murder and forces him into a Sadistic Choice where he'll lose everything one way or another. Bonus points for how quickly he pulled it off - it's implied that not much time passes between Anderton's release and Burgess's party. And then there's Anderton's justified rage towards the Big Bad:Don't you EVER SAY HIS NAME!
- Agatha unwittingly demonstrating just how powerful she is as she generates a Minority Report in front of Anderton and his ex-wife - and describes the future life that their son would have had, were he to have lived.
- Dreamweaver, the virtual reality Cyber Parlor run by Rufus. You can just imagine what his patrons experience when simulating their fantasies and personal desires.
- The Sonic Shotguns that emit non-lethal shockwave bursts to immobilize someone. The way Anderton uses it knocking back three guys on Witwer's group by rapidly flipping the barrel to charge the blast.
- When Anderton finds Crow and has every reason to believe that Crow kidnapped and murdered his son, he is clearly this close to killing the man. He wants to, he absolutely needs to...and he doesn't, because he has a choice, and he chooses to be a cop instead of a murderer. And that single choice is enough to undo all of the Big Bad's plans.
- Even better, when Witwer shows up and looks at the evidence in Crow's hotel room, he thinks about it logically and decides in about five minutes that everything is staged. He doesn't like Anderton, wants to catch him and bring him to justice for his crimes, but Witwer is smart enough to see all the evidence he needs laid out for him and realize that real life doesn't work that way.
