My bedtime fare last night was Minority Report on AXN. It was a movie I remember enjoying on the big screen years ago because of its awesome special effects and the cinematographer's imagination, which were jaw-dropping for their time. It was, pardon the analogy, a sleek Blade Runner. Watching it again on TV, I noted screenplay flaws:

--Why focus on a murder that has yet to occur if, during the police chases, all of those policemen are already getting killed long before the murder? Don't they count as human beings?

--Why are the precognitives a collective deus ex machina? Why are we faced with human, dysfunctional Greek Fates and Furies after all the technological barrage? Why are they production-designed to remind me of the brides in Bram Stoker's Dracula?

--Why does the entire movie hinge on a mere, Freudian slip of the tongue ("I didn't say she drowned.") as it does in many Grade B crime movies and TV shows?

I psychically tuned in to the writer's mind while watching the movie. It seems that the story was initially conceived to focus on PRE-SUICIDE, but everyone else in his company thought that pre-murder (pre-crime) would make more money. And I guess it did.