A couple of critics pointed out the hypocrisy of this film. We see how intrusive advertising has become in the future in a movie that was full of product placements. The villain used the death of Tom Cruise's son to manipulate him in a movie that uses that death to manipulate the audience. I thought it was a little weird that the movie opens with Tom Cruise stopping a man from murdering his wife when he catches her in bed with another man. In The Fabelmans, it was Spielberg's mother's adultery that caused his parents' divorce. Was Spielberg saying something about his parents? Probably not, although Spielberg has never shut up about their divorce and has now made a whole movie about it.
With the help of three psychics kept floating in a pool of water, police prevent future murders but then take the would-be murderers away and freeze them. Their children can't even visit them in prison. Isn't that as disruptive to society as the murders they prevent? Instead of raiding the house and dragging the husband away, couldn't they have raided the place a few minutes earlier and told the wife to cheese it because her husband was coming? Maybe they could have gotten the couple into counseling or told the husband what his wife was up to and gotten him a lawyer or told his wife her husband might kill her and gotten her into divorce court.
I read the Secret Service/FBI report on school shootings. They emphasized that the goal was to prevent shootings, not make arrests. They even listed kids who had apparently planned mass murders who went on to live happy, productive lives.
With some drawn out chase scenes with special effects/stunts. I haven't seen any superhero movies but I imagine that's what they're like. In one chase, Tom Cruise knocks some workers off a scaffolding, presumably to their deaths. Maybe this thing would have interested me if I believed in psychics.
