Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Minority Report is superficial pap – why on earth stage it?

Plus: at the Donmar how not to do Chekhov

The lighting effects are fabulous, easily the show’s best asset: Roseanna Frascona (Ana) and Jodie McNee (Julia) in Minority Report. Photo: Marc Brenner  
issue 11 May 2024

Minority Report is a plodding bit of sci-fi based on a Steven Spielberg movie made more than two decades ago. The setting is London, 2050, and every citizen has been implanted with an undetectably tiny neuroscanner which informs the cops about crimes before they’ve been committed. However, as the first scene reveals, the undetectably tiny neuroscanner can be removed from the flesh with a corkscrew.

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