This week’s “Movies” list for The Chris Vernon Show is “Man on the Run” films, a hallowed action sub-genre, inspired here by the new Total Recall remake. [Read Addison Engelking’s Flyer review here.]
The list:
5. Minority Report (2002): Like Total Recall, this futuristic man-on-the-run film is based on a Philip K. Dick story. Directed by Steven Spielberg, this one stars Tom Cruise as a cop who arrests people for future crimes they might not even know they’re going to commit, until he finds himself implicated and on the lam. I’m not sure how great the mystery plotting is — I don’t remember it very well, at least — but the action pacing and futuristic visual design are first-rate.
