7. Minority Report
For the most part, Minority Report is a great film, but again, Spielberg's devotion to leaving his audience feeling uplifted sort of cripples this one. Basically, everything happens too easily - the bad guy makes a silly error that reveals his weakness, John (Tom Cruise) gets back with his estranged wife, and basically every beleaguered good guy gets some sort of salvation. In fact, so committed to a happy ending is Spielberg that he abandons all logic with the final reveal that the Pre-Crime unit has been dismantled. And this is a happy ending
how? Think about it; without Pre-Crime, isn't everyone just going to start killing each other again? Wasn't Pre-Crime on the whole a good - if flawed - system? So yes, Minority Report is a happy ending that comes out of nowhere, in as much as Spielberg wants you to conveniently forget about the wider consequences of it.