Film Forum

U.S., 2002
Directed by Steven Spielberg
With Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow, Lois Smith
Based on the short story by Philip K. Dick
Music by John Williams
Approx. 145 mins. 35mm.

“Washington, DC, 2054: a city without murder for six years, thanks to the Pre-Crime unit's use of evidence foreseen by three psychic Pre-Cogs to track, arrest and lock up the 'killers' just before the act. The unit's chief, Anderton (Cruise), has his own reasons for supporting the scheme and its advocate Burgess (von Sydow) against sceptics like Witwer (Farrell), sent by the Attorney General to see if the nation should adopt the city's policy. But then something makes Anderton think again: during transmission of a stranger's imminent death, he recognises the killer — himself.” – Time Out

Reviews

“A classy, chilly quasi-Hitchcockian affair.”
– The Washington Post

“The film is magnificently creepy, a calculated bad dream that stays with you like the best of Roger Corman.”
– Elvis Mitchell, The New York Times