A tight thriller

Rating: 6/10 (15 September 2004)

I think Tom Cruise is a good actor. Let this sink in for a while. Has he had a truly bad performance? Sure he's a little wooden and he relies on his smile a bit too much. We must remember that he was quality in Magnolia, Interview With A Vampire, Mission Impossable and Rain Man.
Collatoral is another movie in which Tom shows us a few more strings to his fiddle. He plays an Ice Cold hit-man, 10 steps ahead of the game and a brain that literally calculates odds.
Jamie Fox is brilliant; the leads connect very well; but don't spark as well as other couples in buddy movies.
Cinematography is striking, the course the film takes is pacy and unpredictable. My main beef with the film is that it lacks an emotional core. We are not told a great deal about the characters and as a consequence, i couldn't care less about the finale of the film.
Anybody else think of Terminator at the end of the movie?