Short Story Criticism | Dick, Philip K. - Kenneth Turan (review date 21 June 2002)

Kenneth Turan (review date 21 June 2002)

SOURCE: Turan, Kenneth. “A Walk in the Dark: Steven Spielberg Gets All Creepy in Minority Report, But Tom Cruise Keeps Things Human.” Los Angeles Times (21 June 2002): F1.

[In the following review, Turan claims that what is most impressive about the film Minority Report stems from Dick's short story “The Minority Report.”]

It took paranoid visionary Philip K. Dick to do what Stanley Kubrick could not: Get Steven Spielberg to fully cross over to the dark side. The question now is, how happy are we to have him there?

Spielberg's Minority Report is amplified from a Dick short story [“The Minority Report”] by writers Scott Frank and Jon Cohen, and it stars Tom Cruise as a man hunted by the futuristic anti-crime unit he once led. It finds Hollywood's preeminent director more convincingly at home with unapologetically bleak and unsettling material than he was with...

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