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	Minority Report (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Minority Report is a science fiction film which, like Blade Runner and Dark City, mixes in elements of several genres, particularly film noir, mystery, thriller and action / adventure.
		Anderton's discovery of the existence of minority reports is one of several clues to the mystery which drives most of the film.
		Minority Report originated as a sequel to 1990's Total Recall in script form wherein Arnold Schwarzenegger was written to reprise his role as Douglas Quaid who is now a reformed law enforcer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minority_Report_(movie) (2401 words)

	Minority Report
		"Minority Report" is a special F/X juggernaut that mixes the live action with copious quantities of computer effects that are seamlessly integrated with a first rate science fiction tale.
		Cruise is the star of Minority report, being on screen for the bulk of the film, but the megastar is often overshadowed by some splendid supporting performances.
		"Minority Report's" weakest element, though, is in its climatic denouement which is flattened with family sentiment, pedestrian revelations and the overkill of narration over perfectly explanatory visuals.
	www.reelingreviews.com /minorityreport.htm (1549 words)

	Minority Report
		Plus, Minority Report is based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, the prolific writer who's stories begat movies like Blade Runner and Total Recall (well, Impostor too).
		Minority Report, a satisfying movie on many levels, lives up to its pedigree as a good sci-fi movie, a good brain teaser, and even a good look at some basic issues of right and wrong.
		Unlike other movies, Minority Report does have a satisfying ending, which is especially difficult given the difficulty of integrating all the plots together.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/minority_report.html (785 words)

	DreamWorks SKG Fansite-Minority Report
		Minority Report probes the implications of what would seem on its surface to be an ideal criminal tool.
		With Minority Report, Spielberg and his team investigate the nature of crime, technology and destiny with both a sense of adventure and the inscrutable mystery reminiscent of classic noir films of the 1940s.
		Minority Report also represents a step forward in creating organic, seamless visual effects that reveal a world that is not traditionally sci-fi futuristic so much a subtl e natural progression from our world today.
	www.dreamworksfansite.com /minorityreport (1241 words)

	WHCCAMP "Minority Report"
		The Report's lack of definitional clarity undermines the legitimacy of safe and effective non-conventional approaches by failing to distinguish them from treatments that are improbable or fraudulent.
		The Report cites papers that assert that when a patient is diagnosed with cancer and turns to prayer for comfort, he or she is considered to be using "CAM." When spirituality is so designated, "CAM" prevalence grows dramatically.
		The access section of the Report is predicated upon the premise that, "The public has expressed interest in maintaining easy access to CAM practitioners." Notwithstanding the selection bias of those who presented public testimony to the Commission, the data does not support that this is the view of a majority of Americans.
	www.quackwatch.org /07PoliticalActivities/WHC/minority.html (3066 words)

	Minority Report
		Minority Report, as a movie, is a marvellous amalgam of science fiction and morality gone wrong.
		Minority Report, based on the short story by Philip K Dick, is set in a not-too-distant future where the most serious crimes are dealt with by the Pre-Crime Unit, and stopped before the felon has even had the chance to commit his crime.
		In Minority Report, as was the case in A.I., Williams instead adopts a markedly more dissonant tone, allowing his orchestra to revel in large-scale disharmony, concentrating more on rhythms and speed of performance than melodic development.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /minreportcd.htm (891 words)

	Minority Report
		Minority Report fails to involve intellectually as with Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, fails to present a convincing fallen protagonist as with Hammett's Sam Spade, and, in its over-reliance on the dated sitting room resolutions of Christie, isolates itself as populist and condescending.
		Still, Minority Report is not without its pleasures: Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" plays slyly under scenes where John manipulates crime scene "photographs" for clues; references to Spielberg's new hero Kubrick (an admiration not reciprocated by Kubrick, no matter Spielberg's pre-A.
		Minority Report features a moment in a greenhouse (more Raymond Chandler than Hammett) where Pre-Crime's mad geneticist progenitor Dr. Iris Hineman (Lois Smith) presents a sprung midway point that is quirky and ineffably menacing--it is one extreme of what the picture could have been, Minority Report's opening the other.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/minorityreport.htm (934 words)

	Salon Directory
		In "Minority Report" the little boy exists only in photographs; he has been abducted by a stranger and presumably molested and killed, leaving behind a tortured dad addicted to mood-altering drugs and happy-family holographic images.
		"Minority Report" blends the conventions of 1930s film noir with classic modernist science fiction and the more recent dystopian tradition of "Blade Runner" and "The Matrix." If there's nothing especially original about the combination, it's brilliantly executed as pure cinema, both breathtaking and disturbing.
		"Minority Report" is set about halfway through the 21st century, when the Washington police have established an experimental "precrime" unit that relies on the observations of three psychics, or "precogs," who are kept sealed off from the world in a swimming-pool unit called the Temple.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/2002/06/21/minority_report/index.html (901 words)

	Minority Report (2002): Reviews
		Based on a story by famed science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, Minority Report is and action-detective thriller set in Washington, D.C. in 2054, where police utilize a psychic technology to arrest and convict murderers before they commit their crime.
		The casting of Minority Report may be the smartest in the history of Spielberg.
		"Minority Report" is one of those stylish, self-conscious, intricate science fiction events that generate plenty of discussions about its subject matter after it finishes.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/minorityreport (1890 words)

	The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick
		The Minority Report is positioned to be one of the biggest films of next year and one of the best science fiction movies of all time.
		Minority Report is based on a short story of the same name by renowned SF author Philip K. Dick.
		Minority Report, the film based on a Philip K. Dick short story and starring Tom Cruise, has been delayed until April 2001 to allow Spielberg to complete the long rumored Stanley Kubrick pet-project A.I. Read the story from BBC News.
	www.philipkdickfans.com /hollywood/minority/minority.htm (2087 words)

	Review: Minority Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		To understand where Minority Report is headed, one has to ponder whether the future is set and cannot be altered or whether free will makes that future a possibility rather than a certainty.
		Minority Report features its share of shoot-outs, fights, and chase scenes, some of which are quite spectacular.
		In the wake of the disappointment of A.I. Minority Report arrives in theaters representing a much-needed tonic for Spielberg.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/m/minority_report.html (1791 words)

	Minority Report - Precogs, prophets, and the purposes of God
		Appealing though it may be, this is a profoundly humanistic vision, at odds with the biblical picture of a universe in which God is sovereign over the destinies of His creatures (Isaiah chapter 46 verses 9-10; Proverbs chapter 16 verse 9).
		Consider too the disconcerting depiction of future advertising in 'Minority Report': by becoming so personalized, the hi-tech billboards are paradoxically found to be utterly impersonal - their 'special knowledge' of each consumer only serves to emphasize with irony the fact that they treat their targets as objects and care little for them as persons.
		First, in 'Minority Report', the one guided by the predictions is the killer and his goal is to preserve his life.
	www.facingthechallenge.org /minority.htm (1659 words)

	Minority report \| thebulletin.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rabinowitch formulated their concerns into the "Report of the Committee on Political and Social Problems, Manhattan Project-Metallurgical Laboratory," which came to be known as the Franck report.
		The Franck report accurately predicted two major historical events: the nuclear arms race and the Soviet acquisition of the bomb.
		After the Franck report was completed on June 11, 1945, Franck boarded a train to Washington, D.C., to personally deliver it to Secretary of War Henry Stimson.
	www.thebulletin.org /article.php?art_ofn=jf05schollmeyer (1048 words)

	Belarusian Review :: Minority Report: Keeping Your Words Rather than Your Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Under such financial incentives, Belarusian minority activists say, Niva is being kept afloat primarily thanks to its staff?s dedication and enthusiasm for the cause of supporting and promoting a Belarusian ethnic identity in Poland.
		As reported in July 2003 by Kurier Poranny- a local Polish-language daily in Bialystok which apparently got its information from someone at NIK - NIK auditors found that the Niva publishers in that period spent 174,000 zlotys ($55,000) for purposes other than those listed in their applications for budget subsidies.
		Mironowicz tells a different and rather astonishing story that seems to reveal a profoundly ridiculous (as well as potentially dangerous) mechanism for running a state-subsidized minority newspaper in a situation where both the level of subsidies as well as the timing of their disbursement is often uncertain.
	www.belreview.cz /articles/2863.html (2532 words)

	Temporal Anomalies in Minority Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However, it is clear that there are minority reports, events predicted one way by two psychics and otherwise by the third.
		We have little data on the minority reports, but the data we have suggests that this is not a viable solution.
		The minority report might be the events of this universe and the majority those of another, and in that case the perpetrator is not guilty in this universe and justice has been tragically subverted.
	www.mjyoung.net /time/minority.html (5035 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Minority Report -- Steven Spielberg - DVD - Wide Screen
		Minority Report, a futuristic thriller based on a story by author Philip K. Dick (Blade Runner), is also something of a tour de force for Tom Cruise.
		Minority Report is a spectacular Sci-fi ride that may only be for the "intelligent".
		Minority Report was critically aclaimed and did well at the box office and in DVD sales.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=667068998924&userid=54TKYYZ124 (1041 words)

	Small Times: News about MEMS, Nanotechnology and Microsystems
		John Underkoffler, a science adviser for Steven Spielberg's futuristic film, "Minority Report," has the Hollywood thing down.
		Since moving to the West Coast two years ago to be near ground zero for his work on "Minority Report," Underkoffler has helped influence how blockbuster films can capture the public's imagination for technology — especially the science of assembling atoms and molecules, and microelectromechancial systems (MEMS).
		And the real stuff doesn't always work perfectly, which is the point of "Minority Report," a thriller based on a short story author Philip K. Dick published in 1956 in the magazine Fantastic Universe.
	www.smalltimes.com /document_display.cfm?document_id=4071 (757 words)

	Minority Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"Minority Report" is a triumph of narration, design, stunts and visual effects that sends us into a troubling Orwellian future where one is guilty before even committing a crime.
		Thus, Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report," a rousing film-noir suspenser set in a world of labor-saving devices and McLuhan-esque technology, is a thought-provoking inquiry into just how far we as a society want to go to make our environment safe.
		Even with something of a happy ending, "Minority Report" is the most troubling kind of speculative fiction.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /hollywoodreporter/reviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1516678 (991 words)

	Breast Cancer Prevention Institute
		The need for such a report as this is underscored by the fact that, although my dissent was made, in part, on the public record during the final session on Feb. 26, there was no mention of any dissent in the Summary Report which constituted the final submission of the workshop.
		Indeed, from what I could gather from Dr. Melbye's update of his Danish data (during the question and answer session), his stratification of relative risk by age in 1973 (date of inception of his abortion registry) was not accomplished by restricting the initial analysis to different sub-cohorts.
		On the contrary, although there is a transient increase, in which breast cancer risk reaches a peak approximately 5 years postpartum, this peak risk level does not exceed the risk attributable to the non-pregnant state for women under age 25 at delivery.
	www.bcpinstitute.org /nci_minority_rpt.htm (1585 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Minority Report (xhtml)
		At a time when movies think they have to choose between action and ideas, Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report" is a triumph--a film that works on our minds and our emotions.
		they disagree." The dissenting Pre-Cog is said to have filed a minority report, and in the case of Anderton the report is crucial, because otherwise he seems a certain candidate for arrest as a pre-criminal.
		He makes "Minority Report" with the new technology; other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20020621/REVIEWS/206210304/1023 (1093 words)

	Minority Report (2002). A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		In the world of The Minority Report, Commissioner John Anderton is the one to thank for the lack of crime.
		Based on a story by famed science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick, Minority Report is an action detective thriller set in Washington D.C. in 2054, where police utilizes a psychic technology to arrest and convicted murderers before they commit their crime.
		A.I. was a two-headed abomination as both art and political polemic but with Minority Report he has a classic sci-fi hit that successfully crafts a powerful argument about contemporary issues.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /minority_report.htm (1567 words)

	Minority Report (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When Anderton believes that the cracks are minor, he believes wrong.
		Anderton sees another murder happening in the Pre-Cogs' visions and is shocked to see that he is the man committing the murder.
		"Minority Report" is a movie with a fantastic storyline, one of the best I've ever heard of.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0181689 (693 words)

	Movies based on stories by Philip K. Dick - Minority Report
		MINORITY REPORT, Steven Speilberg's $130 million futuristic thriller, melds two disparate genres onto an extremely clever premise to create a unique cinematic experience.
		With the aide of a trio of psychics entombed in a high-tech chamber in the bowels of the Precrime headquarters, Anderton and his team sort through "previsions" the psychics have tapped into regarding this future crime.
		Anderton is off and running, as is the film, staying one-step ahead of Witwer and the Precops as he tries to unravel a murder he's sure isn't in his future...
	www.philipkdick.com /films_minreport.html (211 words)

	Minority Report
		Globalization has been very good indeed for that minority, opening up great new opportunities for them to practice their entrepreneurial skills and allowing them to network more easily with the overseas-Chinese commercial classes in other countries.
		This is the downside of being a market-dominant minority.
		Chua’s own people are Hakka and she is practicing a form of market-dominant minority camouflage.) She seems to have mastered even the trickiest minority-within-minority and minority-versus-minority cases, like that of the Ashkenazim in Israel or the Kikuyu of Kenya.
	www.amconmag.com /05_19_03/review.html (947 words)

	Minority Report
		The smallest minority on earth is the individual.
		Minority Report presents an unsettling but believable vision of the shape of things to come in the realm of personal privacy--there will be none.
		Realistically, the passive attitude of the sheeple in Minority Report is representative of most people, who are quite willing to give up liberty for the promise of security.
	freealabama.com /archive/minority.htm (1056 words)

	Spielberg's Minority Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The trivial, lackluster and formulaic story that Minority Report is, almost makes me want to tell readers: just skip this garbage, trust me it ain’t worth it.
		Minority Report is a boring murder-mystery that I found hard to even care about who killed whom, or why they were killed.
		That this brilliant actor should have to come so far down the scale of cinematic excellence to play a villain in Minority Report is cause for mourning.
	www.geocities.com /robleh.geo/Minority_Report.html (612 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: Minority Report
		Sure, "Minority Report" is pretty good entertainment, but it is certainly no masterpiece.
		Of course, if you get past those questions and a few holes in the plot, "Minority Report" is a decent picture.
		To sum it up, "Minority Report" has possibly everything I can ask for in a sci-fi thriller.
	popkornjunkie.com /reviews/minorityreport.html (1038 words)

	The Flick Filosopher \| Minority Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Oh yeah, it's that good, in that shivery, transporting way that makes you wonder how flickering images viewed in the dark can be so damn powerful.
		But damn, Spielberg is a genius in how he deals with some of the more gruesome aspects of this world, like in picking the usually wrongly cast Peter Stormare (Bad Company) as a creepy underground plastic surgeon; Anderton's visit to him is sickeningly funny.
		Report is re-energizing, fusing two too- often- junky genres -- sci-fi and noir -- to create something damn close to a modern pulp masterpiece, an SF Confidential.
	www.flickfilosopher.com /flickfilos/archive/2002/minorityreport.shtml (849 words)

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