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Flaw?????

Ok if it's premeditated you get a long warning if it's spur of the moment you only get a half hour. Right?

Since our hero didn't even know the guy he was supposed to kill it could not have been premeditated so they would not have gotten the "long warning". He only decided to blow the guy away once he figured out who it was.

Is this a story line flaw or did I miss something?

No really though...

*****SPOILER ALERT*****

The point was actually made at the end of the film that you can plot someone else to kill, and that is what the precogs see, the act of murder itself. Although the murder was not premedated, the plan for the murder was set up by von sydow's charachter for anderton to kill the guy. It was not ever said how exactly he was to get anderton to get there in the first place, but I imagine that there was a plan to lure him there as well. Remember, the precogs only see the violent emotional act of murder, and the immediate surrounding details. They do not see if someone else put them up to it or set them up for it. That is one of the main points of the story, is that you cannot ethically use predetermination as a way of dishing out punishment, as you do not take into account mitigating circumstanses, or the fact that you may have the opportunity to make a different choice.

Notice that the premurderers are held in that prison, because they were going to commit the murders. But what about the ball? It was going to fall, right? I didn't see them take that ball and punish it by smashing it or throwing it hard. It was caught, safely. Shouldn't they have done that instead? Put the premurderers in therapy??? All they needed was just a little cuddle.

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It never occurred to Tom that there could be other possibilities, because he was showed only what his boss wanted him to see. He was shown that it worked perfectly, so in his guilt ridden mind, he needed to know nothing else. It is my suspicion that all of the other members of the team were more than likely just faithful followers and order takers, without having the cognitive resources to be leaders, just really good soldiers. The scene where he discovers he is guilty is a case in point, as his subordinate happily leaves the room on request, without question, and the tech in the tank gives him two minutes to run.

I must see this movie again, there are still so many points that even confuse me, just not sure where they are.

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