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Minority Report (2002)
Mediocre rendition of a cunning tale
While the short story wasn't the best of PKD's work, it had some interesting issues in it, and a clever spiral conundrum at its heart that was basically ignored for the movie, making the title less meaningful than it could be. As for the movie itself, the acting was mediocre, the action somewhat disjoint with the plot (i.e., gratuitous), and the characters' motivations were alternately inscrutable and painfully obvious. It looked like a classic case of fitting a 3 hour script into a 2 hour movie.
Final (2001)
Slow moving, not boring
A reasonably well-orchestrated mind game film, with the sanity of the patient the burning question throughout. Issues of morality are dealt with quickly, however, leaving me with the feeling that a more thorough denouement would have helped the film overall.
I can understand why viewers expecting an action-fest would rate this kind of low -- it's very lingering, and all the action is internal to the characters. And that works, for this story.