Best movie in 2004 so far

Rating: 9/10 (1 September 2004)

If you are not a Tom Cruise fan, this is the movie for you. He plays a role only a mother could love, the heartless hit-man. However, he does it with style and pizzaz. This dude is sent to LA for an evening of take out - to take out five witnesses who are scheduled to testify in Federal court against a big time thug. Cruise ends up getting Jamie Foxx as his cabbie to chauffeur him to each whack job and soon ends up as a hostage driver. Jada Pinkett plays the assistant US attorney. The movie really starts rolling with the last hit. The action is fast and furious with hardly any down time. It's the best directed (Michael Mann of Miami Vice and Manhunter fame) movie I've seen this year.