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  • Watched it early 2000's
  • Set sometime on the future
  • In a futuristic world where the police have the ability to catch criminals before they commit the crime

Basic plot details that I can remember:

  • main protagonist is a former police officer who is now on the run from the police, because of a crime that he hasn't yet committed (he himself has no idea what this crime would be)
  • the man tries to clear his name and find flaws in the crime catching system.
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    This is a film directed by the most successful director of the last 50 years, and starring the most successful actor of the last 50 years. How this question has been asked has blown my mind. – Darren Aug 07 '23 at 17:30
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    @Darren popularity alone doesn't mean a movie is easy to identify. This case however was easy, pasting part of OP's description into google. – CodesInChaos Aug 07 '23 at 19:07
  • Is there a sonic shotgun in your movie? Pew~BOOM! – DKNguyen Aug 07 '23 at 20:14
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    Looks like I need to go ask a question about the name of an old space movie with laser swords that I saw a while ago.... – JK. Aug 07 '23 at 23:48
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    Huh, thats pretty funny - I checked and there are lots of questions about things that happened in that space movie with laser swords, ... but not a single question asking what it's name is. I'm off to get loads of free rep!! – JK. Aug 07 '23 at 23:54
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    @JK you mean https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/154621/movie-about-a-boy-two-men-a-robot-and-a-war/154624#154624? – Kaiido Aug 08 '23 at 02:41
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    You left out “based on a novel written by one of the most influential authors of the last 100 years”. – Todd Wilcox Aug 08 '23 at 11:33
  • @JK. I tried to do that as an April-fools joke a few years and the lash back from the comminuty was quite hard... Ahem – Hans Olo Aug 08 '23 at 19:09
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    @Darren what statistic(s) are you using to determine " the most successful X of the last 50 years"? Just curious. – stannius Aug 08 '23 at 22:28
  • @stannius the statistics of “off the top of my head”. It was a throwaway comment, not a Wikipedia article that requires citations. That said; Spielberg is the highest grossing director of all time (according to Wikipedia). And Cruise is near the top of highest grossing actors (especially after removing ensemble movies like Avengers), plus there are other metrics such as popularity and influence. – Darren Aug 09 '23 at 06:59
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    @Darren I don't think any "popularity metric" is a good criterion for determining whether or not an identification question should be asked. I've never ever heard about this movie before, until very recently after stumbling on an excerpt on Youtube, and I wasn't even aware it was a Spielberg movie, nor that the main actor was Tom Cruise. That being said, when I tried searching it up (after knowing its existence), it was very easy to find with just a few keywords. – Clockwork Aug 09 '23 at 10:40
  • @Clockwork Please point to the screen where I said this shouldn't have been asked. – Darren Aug 09 '23 at 11:02
  • @Darren you know that 87% of statistics are made up on the spot. – Mark Ransom Aug 10 '23 at 04:19
  • @MarkRansom But that's OK, because 93.476% of people don't believe them anyway… – gidds Aug 10 '23 at 09:35

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Is this Minority Report (2002)...?

In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.

The story takes place in a mid-21st century version of Washington, D.C. where a special "Precrime" division of the police uses a trio of clairvoyant mutants known as "precogs" to predict the date and time of imminent murders, enabling them to identify and arrest the would-be perpetrators before the crimes have been committed.

The main character is one of these Precrime officers, but ends up on the run from the law himself after he's predicted to commit a murder in the near future.

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