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Logically it's horribly flawed: von Sydow's character could not possibly hope, merely by paying a guy to hang out in a hotel room with incriminating photos, to set in motion an eventual murder whose prognostication would lead to its being committed. The paradox is a closed circle with no genuine causal impetus. Had Cruise's character been given more conventional leads prior to his crime's being "pre-coged", the premise might have been believable.

That said, I think this was a sort of return-to-form for Spielberg. It was a very well filmed and well-paced thriller, and for that I liked it. And while there's something dissatisfying to me about the second half, I think the better "reading" of the film is one in which its denouement is actually a Brazil-like dream rather than reality. It's not fresh, so I don't remember exactly, but there's some line about the criogenically frozen criminals having pleasant dreams, and I think the suggestion is clear that it's quite possible that the tidy happy ending of the film is just that.


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