A movie worth the ticket

Rating: 6/10 (15 February 2005)

the film is beautifully photographed and edited (LA never looked better at night)but the script takes too many dramatic licenses-sometimes the film is incomprehensible-Tom Cruise looks good and acts well in a different kind of image (other good alternatives as a hit man would have been Nicholas cage or Alec Baldwin)-perhaps the producers forced the director to submit to the demands of the box office and end the film as it is(compare to the classic James Cagney gangster movies of the past which still continue to haunt us)-nevertheless Michael Mann is a brilliant technician and imaginative director who is sure to hit the bull's eye with a tighter script.