The more we become connected, the more any sense of personal privacy completely evaporates. So goes Steven Spielberg’s vision for our near future, couched in tech noir, mostly because the veil of safety and security has for decades become irrevocably ripped from society. What we see (and everything we don’t) becomes the stuff of life and death in this shadowed thriller based on (another!) Philip K. Dick story, about a pre-crime cop John Anderton (Tom Cruise) whose loyalty and dedication to his job can’t save him from bureaucratic forces. The film's central theme is the question of free will versus determinism. It examines whether free will can exist if the future is set and known in advance. Other themes include the role of preventive government in protecting its citizenry, the role of media in a future state where technological advancements make its presence nearly boundless, the potential legality of an infallible prosecutor, and Spielberg's perennial theme of broken families. There were plenty of breathtaking action set pieces— with the metallic tracking spiders ticking and swarming across a decrepit apartment floor to find Anderton submerged in an ice-cold bathtub with his eyes recently switched out via black market surgery as a key one. What impressed us when watching the movie was how much the technology in the 2002 movie foreshadowed what will happen. Like the pinch and zoom visual user interface Anderton was using to identify suspects, electronic tracking of individuals for marketing (or governmental purposes) and even the Lexus electric car. Most impressive is Spielberg’s sophistication, unafraid of the bleak tidings his film prophecies even as it feigns a storybook ending. What were your reactions to the movie?