Released in 2002 Minority Report staring Tom Cruise and directed be Steven Spielberg has a fascinating visual style.
It can deffinetly be defined as a Film Noir or Sci-fi Noir as there is a lot of use of shadow and darkness in the film. The film has a bleached look which takes out certain colours from the film, leaving it with a very cold look. A great contrast it when we visit the house far out in the countryside which is full of very rich and bright colours, particually green. Then the navey blue police ships arrive which almost look like cold shadows accross the warm countryside.
Another factor that relates to the Film Noir look is the use of extreme camera angles. There are examples of extremely high angles, such as durring the directly overhead scene when the spiders roam through the appartment complex identifying people, and very lower angles.
Steven Spielberg sepcifically said he wanted to make the ugliest, grainest film he'd ever made and this can be seen best when comparing the dark detective story of Minority Report with the warm adventure story of Artafical Intelligence A.I. I would say Minority Report is one of the best looking Sci-fi films short of Blade Runner and a great film too.
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