There's no denying that Steven Spielberg is one of the most idolised directors ever, but if there's one criticism you can level at him, it's that often, he can't end a film. Just look at Saving Private Ryan; it feels like Spielberg's making a grand statement about how nobody really won World War II, but can't resist giving it a good old patriotic twist. Minority Report, likewise, is another film that deals in such darkened hues, it hardly seems fitting for the characters to live happily ever after; Tom Cruise is on the run for a murder he's going to commit in the future, and eventually he persuades everyone that people can change. Some might argue that a 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'-esque ending would be more thought-provoking; an affirmation that no one can cheat the system is certainly a better way of warning us of the future we're heading towards, rather than suggesting one man can flip a dystopia. Funnily enough though, Spielberg has a Get Out of Jail Free card here; Cruise's character Anderton spent a little while in prison, while his mind was free to dream. If he was to have dreamt up the entire ending, we'd have a braver moral from Minority Report.