kind of wasted time

Rating: 5/10 (19 September 2009)

a profi killer kidnaps a taxi driver and wants to use him as a scapegoat for the 5 contracts he has not as bad an idea, but the way it's done ...
Tom Cruise plays a cold, perfect, comic like and quite flat killer - and quite inconsistent one: - he seems so perfect at the beginning, a real killer machine, each shot a hit, but at the end he can't hit a guy 5 meter from him in the subway ... with several shots ... while the taxi driver hits him of course ... yeah, fits very well to the disco-scenes where the killer manages to clean quite a lot of bodyguards on the way to his victim - have not counted how often Jamie Foxx tried to escape, but at some point a cold killer could have considered killing him and getting an better driver ... i mean Foxxs character was really more problem than solution all the time. but no, instead both have to visit Foxxs mother ... man, a really bad bad killer - the perfect killer has perfect killer-plans in his notebook, but once the thing is thrown away he knows nothing ... well, yeah, sounds very professional to me, yeah - the whole plan - trying to make it all look like the taxi driver did it looks a bit funny in general ... i mean the killer is seen with him several times ...

instead of seeing this drive is the wrong one while it's time he does 1000 stupid and time-consuming things to keep him staying quite cool all the time, until he goes crazy at the end and has absolutely no control over himself ...

Cruise can't convince me here ... he isn't right for that character at all well and the taxi driver makes the opposite transformation of course - from a frightened - and rightly so - almost real human to a mad better than the perfect killer shooting profi ...

and than this woman ... how pathetic of course our hero has to do everything to save her there are some nice scenes in the movie, yes, but it can't convince me, not the acting, not the story and certainly not that ending ...