Minority Report does offer a few issues to ponder, and given the mindlessness of most summer action specials, it’s something of an intellectual feast, even if it’s all hors d’oeuvres.

Certainly one of Tom Cruise’s best (films), and I think one of Steven Spielberg’s best too…. So much fun to watch, a really intriguing thriller.

It’s colder and more calculating than much of Spielberg’s oeuvre, and is all the better for it.

Its first reel is as bravura a display of style as Spielberg has ever offered, as we watch a movie-within-a­movie of adultery, jealousy, and homicidal rage being assembled from the visions of the pre-cogs by Tom Cruise and his team of Precrime techies...