Directing-vise it is one of the best directed movies ever. The shots! Oh my god! The shots! The camera work is fucking fantastic! The flow! Oh my god! The flow! The editing and the way the movie was shot for the editing is flawless. A lot of people say that the best cut in the film history is in Lawrence Of Arabia, or something. No! The best cut is in Minority Report. I would not spoil it too much. But it's towards the end, when it cuts to Agatha, played by Samantha Morton being lowered back to the precog bed, by Wally, played by Daniel London
. It's so good. This one cut made me realize that directing is not only about basic coverage of the scene. But every little move matters.
The acting in the movie is very good. There is a believable sadness in Dan Aykroyd's character which is perfectly balanced by the complete joyfulness of Vada, the main character played by Anna Chlumsky. Macaulay Culkin is in it. And he shared with Chlumsky an award from MTV in 1991 for the best kiss scene for this movie. The second love interest of Vada is played by Griffin Dunne who you may know from An American Werewolf in London
. And there is a surprisingly good performance by the legendary Jamie Lee Curtis considering that her character is basically there just to be a love interest to Aykroyd's character, which stirs some drama in the film.
Blender artists sneak even into places like Pixar. Colin Levy, for example, worked at Pixar for a few years. He is also known as the director of perhaps the best movie made by Blender Foundation ( before it was called "Blender Studio" and before they released Spring ) - Sintel. Spring rivals Sintel quite well. But not on a story level. Colin is a master at story. By the way, he quit Pixar to make a small short film which took him years to make called Skywatch. By the way, he managed to get Jude Law involved. I would not be able to do that. I don't have the money to travel to London
. And also, by the way, the VFX for this film were also done with Blender.
They ( and by they I mean, one particular researcher Lt. Gilbert S. Daniel
s, who wrote a paper about it ) saw a problem with their approach. By combining the measurements and constructing a perfect average pilot, he found that non of the pilots were in fact average. And every single one of them was different in one way to another. Article about this. & Video about this from Matt Parker.