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Good performances by Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx in this film. Max is a LA cab driver with all sorts of fantasy ideas of starting his own limo service, "Island Limo". The problem is that he has been planning it for twelve years with no actual date in sight. Max picks up Annie (Jada Pinkett Smith), an Assistant DA, and takes her to the Federal Building. He flirts with her and she likes his demeanor and personality. She gives him her card. Another fare gets in, Vincent, who tells Max that he has five different stops to make and an early flight out of LAX in the morning. He asks Max to hang with him for the night and offers him a bonus for getting him to the airport on time, a total of $600. Max says yes, not having any idea what he was getting into. At the first stop, Vincent gets out Max waits in the alley for him. Suddenly a body falls out of a window onto the cab. Not fully understanding what happened, Max tells Vincent that this guy fell out of the window and hit the cab. Vincent tells him that he fell because he was shot, and that they had to put the body in the trunk. Max wants no part of this, but Vincent makes it pretty clear that it was not a request. Max is now Vincent's prisoner. He realizes that Vincent is a hit man and his five stops are going to be his victims. Unable to get away, Max has no other options but to do what Vincent says. Max's mother is in the hospital, and Vincent makes it very clear that he will kill her if Max doesn't cooperate. Max pretty much figures that Vincent is going to kill him too when his work is done. Victor is killing all of the people with anything to do with a major drug lord case that is going to trial tomorrow. Max finally decides that he had nothing to lose and tried to get away. He wrecked the cab and got away from Vincent. Inside of Vincent's brief case, Max sees that his last victim is Annie the District Attorney, the prosecutor of the drug lord case. Cops show up and try to handcuff Max, but he fights the cop and gets away. He has to warn Annie about Vincent. Now Max realizes that he picked up Vincent after letting Annie out. Vincent was probably there to kill Annie first, but she was running late. Max tries to warn her, but the cell phone is dead. He gets to her building and is able to warn her just barely before Vincent shows up. Max is able to slightly wound Vincent with the policeman's gun, and he and Annie are running for the subway. In a cat-and-mouse chase, Max and Annie are just steps away from being caught by Vincent. Finally, trapped on the same train with nowhere to go, in a last ditch shootout on the subway train, Max mortally wounds Vincent. Both out of bullets, they sit across from each other and Vincent dies. Max and Annie get off, and Vincent continues down the line. ....lessRead full review
While Foxx fans won`t be let down by his (jamie) performance, this vehicle is in Cruise Control all the way ! Tom Cruise is perfectly cast as the thinking man`s hitman. The movie`s high lights are when Cruise is on screen...killing people! Jada Pinkett Smith turns in a servicable performance as Foxx`s love interest. While this film is about a night in the life of a hit man and the taxi driver(Foxx) who drives him around, it seems that with every conversation between the two men, a life time of secrets and inner thoughts are revealed. Cruise and Foxx play those scenes with Oscar worthy depth. Good film. See it!!!
Good action...drama with Tom Cruise in tough guy role and Jamie Foxx wonderful.
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great movie , tom criuse and jamie fox work great together . This is kind of like a combination of mission impossible and james bond movies ! if you like those you will like this just don't expect expensive visual effects just 2 great actors with a deadline .
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This film is an extension of "Heat" (1995). The plot & characters are different, but the setting remains similar. An action-packed thriller with a message of hope (one can rise beyond their circumstances).
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