History Film / MinorityReport

* ShownTheirWork: Spielberg went out of his way to avert {{Zeerust}} and accurately represent the kind of technology that will likely be available around the time of the film's setting. Though he put little emphasis on the very likely scenario of EverythingIsOnline because, face it, slotting glassy memory sticks in and out devices is way cooler than having the data accessible instantly and wirelessly. The memory sticks did correctly anticipate UsefulNotes/FlashMemory taking off however.

* PerfectSolutionFallacy: [[spoiler:”What’s that? The precriminals can stop their precrimes just like we do? Then we clearly have to shut it down, never mind all the murder victims we could save!”]]

* CrimeOfPassion: The plot opens with this trope, when the "[[PrecrimeArrestPrecrime Division]]" just barely prevents a man from murdering his wife and her lover, having gone home for his glasses only to catch them in bed together. John Anderton explains that crimes of passion are harder to predict and intercept precisely because they're spur of the moment. In fact, the Precrime Divison spends most of its time dealing with these types of crimes because the system has proven effective at preventing almost all ''premeditated'' murders.

* CrimeOfPassion: The plot opens with this trope, when the "Precrime Division" just barely prevents a man from murdering his wife and her lover, having gone home for his glasses only to catch them in bed together. John Anderton explains that crimes of passion are harder to predict and intercept precisely because they're spur of the moment.

''Minority Report'' is a 2002 PostCyberpunk [[FilmNoir neo-noir]] science fiction film directed by Creator/StevenSpielberg and starring Creator/TomCruise, loosely based on the 1956 Creator/PhilipKDick short story "The Minority Report".

* BizarreAndImprobableBallistics: In the original prevision, the manner in which Leo Crow is able to break the window and fall is suspect. The bullet would have to go through Crow with enough force to blow a hole in the window and there would possibly be a bloody mess from an exit wound of that magnitude. Yet, the handgun, a Beretta 9000S, doesn't seem to be of any special high-caliber that would generate such an effect and even then, [[ArtisticLicenseGunSafety over-penetration would be a risk to bystanders]], so it's unlikely Anderton would be permitted by his department to use such a hand cannon without a good reason. However, this gets subverted because [[spoiler: when this scene happens for real, a shot of a bloodless bullet hole is presented to imply that this is why the window's integrity failed, suggesting the bullet missed, Crow still got pushed backwards and [[DestinationDefenestration fell through the weakened window to his death instead]]]].

* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: In the original prevision, the manner in which Leo Crow is able to break the window and fall is suspect. The bullet would have to go through Crow with enough force to blow a hole in the window and there would possibly be a bloody mess from an exit wound of that magnitude. Yet, the handgun, a Beretta 9000S, doesn't seem to be of any special high-caliber that would generate such an effect and even then, [[ArtisticLicenseGunSafety over-penetration would be a risk to bystanders]], so it's unlikely Anderton would be permitted by his department to use such a hand cannon without a good reason. However, this gets subverted because [[spoiler: when this scene happens for real, a shot of a bloodless bullet hole is presented to imply that this is why the window's integrity failed, suggesting the bullet missed, Crow still got pushed backwards and [[DestinationDefenestration fell through the weakened window to his death instead]]]].

* ShownTheirWork: Spielberg went out of his way to avert {{Zeerust}} and accurately represent the kind of technology that will likely be available around the time of the film's setting. Though he put little emphasis on the very likely scenario of EverythingIsOnline because, face it, slotting glassy memory sticks in and out devices is way cooler than having the data accessible instantly and wirelessly.

* JustForFun/RecycledInSpace: It's like ''Film/MissionImpossible1996'', but it's in TheFuture! John Anderton gets framed for and "disavowed" for a murder he will commit, there's a "mole" in the Department of Precrime, an infiltration of the Department of Precrime akin to the MissionImpossibleCableDrop to steal a data collection, and Anderton is vindicated at the end of the film.

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* AdaptationalVillainy: The System of Precrime becomes much more villainous in the film. While in the original short story it was criticized as arresting people that technically hadn't done anything, the film runs with that. Precrime is much more fallible in the film than in the story, and it's not as widely accepted. Characters like the precogs in the story couldn't function outside of the chamber they'd been placed in, while the precogs in the movie can and they're treated more like victims of the system. Furthermore, Precrime is a much more noble endeavor in the short story while in the movie [[spoiler:we learn the system was founded by lies and murder]]. The short story had Anderton saving Precrime from a smear whilst in the movie [[spoiler:Anderton takes down Precrime for good]].

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: [[spoiler:When John confronts Burgess at the end, he first looks at a moving light in the distance. As they talk, this light gets steadily larger. It's the hovercraft coming to avert the murder.]]

* NoNewFashionsInTheFuture: None of the clothes featured stand out as particularly "futuristic"-looking; indeed they don't stand out much at all, perhaps since most aren't very brightly coloured or patterned or anything, being mostly dark or neutral tones. Some suits, like Witwer's blazer or Lamar's tuxedo, are effectively timeless, and could be right at home in ''1954'' as much as in 2054. Even the future Gap, where Anderton buys Agatha some clothes, doesn't appear to be selling anything radically different from the early 2000s, when the film came out. (Some exceptions are specialist uniforms like the Precogs' form-fitting tights inside the temple.)

* JustForFun/RecycledInSpace: It's like ''Film/MissionImpossible1996'', but it's in TheFuture! John Anderton gets framed for and "disavowed" for a murder he will commit, there's a "mole" in the Department of Precrime, an infiltration of the Department of Precrime akin to the MissionImpossibleCableDrop to steal a data collection, and Anderton is vindicated at the end of the film.

* ForcedFriendlyFire: Anderton deflects a "sick stick" attack into another cop, causing immediate [[VomitIndiscretionShot projectile vomiting]].

* VomitingCop: Anderton [[ForcedFriendlyFire deflects]] a "sick stick" attack into another cop, causing immediate projectile vomiting.

* {{Fainting}}: A female member in the audience faints when the projected precog footage reveals [[spoiler: Burgess]] to be the murderer of Anne Lively.

* FastRoping: The Precrime team in the opening scene roping off their hovercraft.

* MenacingHandShot: As Fletcher's team is surrounding Anderton, one of the cops extends her sick stick. The next shot is several sick sticks in the hands of the other cops held low and dagger-like as they start to close around Anderton.

* VomitingCop: Anderton deflects a "sick stick" attack into another cop, causing immediate projectile vomiting.

* SpiritualSuccessor: With its classically philosophical and futuristic themes, and its running motifs applied to eyes, while also being based on a story by Creator/PhilipKDick, this could be considered to be an example of this trope for ''Film/BladeRunner''.

* CoolGuns: The [[https://youtu.be/7omoVzuynmE?t=37 Sonic Shotgun]] from the factory chase that fires a compressed shockwave burst(?) to knock down a target.

* RiddleForTheAges: [[spoiler: The fate of Anderton's son, Sean, is never clearified and probably never will.]]

* TheUnreveal: We never do find out what happened to [[spoiler: Anderton's son]].