Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow, Kathryn Morris
Hugely ambitious and wildly successful in parts, only a tricky third act trips up a master director clearly enjoying himself in virgin territory. Nonetheless this stands as the best future noir since Blade Runner.
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The fashionably fussy, funky veneer may convince some that the film's serious, but it's finally another chase pic, murky in detail, muddled in ideology and strangely predictable in dramatic thrust.
Top Critic This is an intelligent, immensely enjoyable sci-fi thriller that’s head and shoulders above the usual summer blockbuster nonsense.
There are flaws, but also stretches of impact and moments of awe; we're wrapped up in the characters, how they make their choices, and why.
A fantastically confident and exhilarating thrill-ride into the future which far more satisfactorily combines Kubrick's chilly sense of the alienating and the bizarre with Spielberg's own mastery of sugar-rush suspense tactics.
Top Critic The film's futuristic vision is dazzling yet remains unnervingly dark, wowing the eyes whilst challenging the mind.
Top Critic This is one of those rare blockbusters that satisfies both in its big spectacle and in the small, intimate moments.
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A highly effective thriller whose futuristic panoramas rival those of A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
Despite its moldy story twists, this Steven Spielberg spectacular ranks as the best thing he's done since the Indiana Jones films...
If you enjoyed Cruise’s Mission: Impossible, multiply it by five!
The movie's ponderousness is relieved only by Samantha Morton's uncanny portrayal of the psychic Agatha and by Lois Smith's turn as Dr. Hineman...
Never gains enough momentum to get into fifth and out of Cruise control.
Tom cruise plays a fine flawed hero glossed to perfection by a director who knows how to treat his cast to their matinee idol advantage.
There is much to praise here, as Spielberg’s onscreen technical wizardry represents, in many ways, the apex of this art form. He seamlessly blends CGI and live action in a series of action sequences that are among the best he has ever filmed.
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