Why The Matrix Fans Will Like It: Director Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Phillip K. Dick’s short story is more than popcorn excitement, but a remarkable (and often quite bleak) vision of the mid-21st Century with a twist on the mind-altering technology plot element that makes the story’s “heroes” (the police) the oppressive ones by taking possession of three reluctant clairvoyants for their own morally questionable purposes.
In 2054, crime can be prevented and the chief of Washington D.C.’s special “Precrime” unit (Tom Cruise) is predicted to commit a murder within the next 36 hours, putting him on a race against time to find a potential alternate future that will prove his innocence.