I loathed that movie.
SPOILER A supposed professional hit man drives around in a
beat-up taxi with a corpse in the trunk, after royally
screwing up a very simple job. How on earth did such an
incompetent fool manage to stay in business for the previous
six years? I spent most of the movie getting angrier and
angrier that Cruise didn't dump the taxi. And when the police
finally pulled the taxi over, fate intervened, which was
horribly unsatisfactory. Surely now, though, I thought, he'll
dump the taxi. He's learned his lesson. It's been spelled out
to him in a very unsubtle manner. But, no, he gets back in
and carries on as if the incident with the police never
happened. I just about walked out of the cinema at that
point, and had I been on my own I would have done.
Cruise's character also sends Foxx into a club to pretend to
be him. Why didn't Foxx just run away, go to the police and
get them to protect his mother? And the final hit. Why would
he go to the office? It's the middle of the night. The only
person who knows Pinkett Smith is working late is Foxx.
Somebody mentioned similarities with HEAT. Aside from asking
a lot of the audience (HEAT SPOILER: when the wheelman can't
make the heist cause he can't shake off his police tail, the
gang are eating in a diner where another wheelman *entirely
coincidentally* happens to work -- and they just happen to
have been in prison together and the ex-wheelman just happens
to be fed up with going straight, etc.) Pacino and Cruise's
characters share the same name, Vincent.
Anybody who wants to see a superb movie about a hitman should
look out for the low-budget British noir, MR IN-BETWEEN,
based on the book by Neil Cross.
Al
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