Jamie Foxx only redeeming feature

Rating: 4/10 (24 February 2005)

The only redeeming feature in this movie is the superb performance of Jamie Foxx. It is the only reason to watch it. Otherwise, it should never have been released. The plot is bizarre and it gets more bizarre as it goes along. It is a predictable plot. Boy meets girl. Boy also meets killer. Boy will survive and meet girl again. The suspense is how will he wind up with the girl and the path the story takes is contrived and unreal. As the movie goes on it makes less sense and less sense.
Foxx is nominated as the Best Supporting Actor in this flick but he should have been nominated for the Best Actor for in reality Tom Cruise, who supposedly is the principal actor, supports Foxx. Cruise plays his usual self, a tough cocky guy and as usual he doesn't do a good job. There was always a sort of Tom Cruise in every high school and no one ever liked him. But Cruise is rather small and he is not always convincing as a tough guy and he wasn't convincing in this movie either.
For viewers who live in Los Angeles, there were often very familiar scenes although sometimes a viewer familiar with the turf would wonder how the characters got there. There is one scene where they are driving by the Beverly Hills Hotel at night and a coyote walks across the street in front of them. Why they were at that location made no sense, what the coyote had to do with the picture was not clear, and the coyote walked across the street, which coyotes don't do. They run, not walk, when vehicles approach.