Now playing on Netflix until Jan 31 - don't miss it!

[dreamshark]

For the past couple of years there has been a faction in the debate about reinventing policing that insists that the police should be preventing crime rather than reacting to it. Every time I read this argument, something pings in my brain - wasn't that a P.K. Dick story? Some movie with Tom Cruise? Oh, right, Minority Report. All about preventing murders before they happen. And how did that work out? Not too well, I think, although I don't remember the details. 

So when I noticed that Minority Report was running on Netflix (but only until the end of the month) I decided to rewatch it.

Wow. Just, wow. I had forgotten what a brilliant movie that was. It may be one of those movies that keeps getting better as the decades roll by and it starts to be obvious how prescient it was. But it's also just a really good movie. I'm not usually a big fan of thriller/mysteries, but when they are this well put together I'll make an exception. And of course it is also a big-budget science fiction movie with spectacular sets, a John Williams score, and Tom Cruise. With all the genres it manages to pack into its running time,  I think it's even earned the right to be more than two hours long. And I don't grant that lightly.

Only 9 more days, people. If you haven't seen it since 2002, give it a whirl.