I watched it last night, and I must say I honestly liked it.
Here's a short summary:
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Max has lived a mundane life as a cab driver for twelve years. The faces have come and gone from his rear-view mirror: people and places he's long since forgotten--until tonight. Vincent is a contract killer. When an off-shore narco-trafficking cartel learns that they're about to be indicted by a federal grand jury, they mount an operation to identify and kill the key witness, and the last stage is tonight. It is on this very night that Vincent has arrived--and five bodies are supposed to fall. Circumstances cause Vincent to hijack Max' taxicab, and Max becomes collateral--an expendable person who's in the wrong place at the wrong time. Through the night, Vincent forces Max to drive him to each assigned destination. And as the L.A.P.D. and F.B.I. race to intercept them, Max and Vincent's survival become dependent on each other, in ways neither would have imagined.
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Tom Cruise makes a good job as the "bad guy". Cold, but funny at the same time.
To me, the true star of the movie was his co-star, actor Jaime Foxx, playing the unlucky taxi driver who had to drive "Vincent" all around LA.
Dialogues are interesting, the atmosphere is fitting. But, to me, the thing tat increased the standard of the movie was an awesome photography. Captions of Los Angeles, its lights and traffic sneak in throughout the whole movie.
It feels like this director (Michael Mann) is in love with the city, and is persuaded to make his audience fall for it as well.
Final rating: 8 and 1/2
I saw it a few weeks ag and I thought it was quite a cool movie. Tom Cruise was very very good, he makes an awesome baddie I must say. I loved the convo's between him and Max in the cab, and although it wasn't a movie that I'm dying to see another time, it was pretty cool to watch.
I liked it up to the ending the bit with Jada Pickett Smith was to much of a coiencedence and very much cheesy. But Tom Cruise as the bad guy worked really well. Though I felt it was a bit long. The idea wore a bit thin. Also it reminded me very much of Speed.