John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
This is the kind of pure entertainment that, in its fullness and generosity, feels almost classic.
100
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
May show both director and star working at their professional peaks, but I don't think it's as good as that underappreciated masterwork "A.I." It's not as resonant and daring, not as full of magic and marvel. Spielberg stretches himself technically here but not emotionally.
90
Time
Richard Corliss
Spielberg's sharpest, brawniest, most bustling entertainment since "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and the finest of the season's action epics.
90
Newsweek
David Ansen
Ferociously intense, furiously kinetic, its expressionist film noir science fiction that, like all good sci-fi, peers into the future to shed light on the present.
90
The A.V. Club
Scott Tobias
Few directors are capable of marrying ideas and entertainmentone is often sacrificed for the otherbut Spielberg peppers one gripping action setpiece after another with trenchant details about a near-future robbed of the most basic freedoms and privacy.