

It received praise for its writing, visuals and themes, but earned some criticism for its ending which was considered inconsistent with the tone of the rest of the movie. Minority Report was one of the best reviewed films of 2002. The film's overlit shots feature desaturated colors which were achieved by bleach-bypassing the film's negative in post-production. It uses high contrast to create dark colors and shadows, much like a film noir picture. Minority Report has a unique visual style. During pre-production, Spielberg consulted numerous scientists in an attempt to present a more plausible future world than that seen in other science fiction films, and some of the technology designs in the film have proven prescient. running over schedule, eventually starting in March 2001.

Production suffered many delays due to Cruise's Mission: Impossible II and Spielberg's A.I. The film was first optioned in 1992 as a sequel to another Dick adaptation, Total Recall, and started its development in 1997, after a script by Jon Cohen reached Spielberg and Cruise. Spielberg has characterized the story as "fifty percent character and fifty percent very complicated storytelling with layers and layers of murder mystery and plot". The film is a combination of action, thriller and science fiction.

The cast includes Tom Cruise as PreCrime Captain John Anderton, Colin Farrell as Department of Justice Agent Danny Witwer, Samantha Morton as the Precog Agatha, and Max von Sydow as Anderton's superior Lamar Burgess. It is set primarily in Washington D.C., and Northern Virginia in the year 2054, where " PreCrime", an experimental, specialized police department, apprehends criminals based on foreknowledge provided by three psychics called " Precogs". Minority Report is a 2002 American neo-noir science fiction mystery-thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and loosely based on the short story of the same name by Philip K.
