I liked Minority quite a bit, though I could have done without the TC superhero scene where he jumps across the tops of moving cars ( Yes, this is a sci-fi flick, but it's otherwise rooted in reality and acutal physics. When you take the hero and all-of-a-sudden make him Superman, just because he's The Hero, it usually yanks me out of the flick), the jet-pack chase/fight (moreover because it was shot/cut by someone with The Disease and I found it hard to focus on what I was supposed to be impressed by), and the Cruise/Farrell auto-factory fight (a for a combination of the previous two bitches).

I'm not against exciting action, but I like to be able to actually SEE and comprehend what's going on. You remember that bit in Wet Hot American Summer where Ken Marino saves the raftload of kid from going over the falls? Instead of seeing his exciting and daring rescue, we see the reaction of the guy on the shore to the amazing things he's witnessing. As far as I'm concerned, if Hollywood is going to continue to fuck around with action/fight scenes to to point of making them unviewable (which I would argue that they already are), then I'd be happy if they'd just cut to someone reacting to the action for the duration of the scene. It would probably get the point across better, and at least the viewer would be able to picture in his/her mind what is going on....'cause now brother, it's just a mess.

Otherwise, I dug it. Kept surprising me every time I thought I had it figured out, and was the kind of sci-fi I like, one that you don't seem to see quite as much anymore. In the last few years, big-budget SF seems to be little more than a space movie with laser guns, no real "science fiction". I'm having this problem with a lot of genres lately, that they're all becoming action movies rather than what they're supposed to be.

Here we had a vision of the future that, at least peripherally, seemed plausible, expecially in terms of the realities of everyday life. (I especially dug the uber-present advertising, tailored to the individual.) Some unexpected humor here and there too. Could have done without some of the gross-out stuff (did we really need to see huge gobs of snot coming out of Peter Stormare's nose?), but otherwise it was nice to see Stevie-baby do a flick that seemed to aoid the schmaltz.