The story and characters are engaging and the lavish futureworld effects (such as cars autopiloting sideways on a vertical freeway) are visually stunning… Interesting issues raised by this scenario are: Is precognition real? If you change the future, are there alternate futures? If the perpetrator didn’t actually commit the crime, can he be punished for what he only intended to do? And is the system truly infallible… how do we know, since the murders are prevented? The answer to most of these and other questions asked by the plot is: these things rightly belong only to God. However, we see some of the preCrime unit staff assigning godlike or at least priestlike status to themselves… The meaning of the film’s cryptic title is revealed late, in a plot twist that partially deflates the preCrime unit’s overblown image of itself. This film can be—and is being—seen as Biblical allegory; however, the material as presented puts man and/or natural forces in the place of God. I recommend the film for mature Sci-fi fans only.