Lost the Plot

Rating: 5/10 (13 November 2004)

This is a stylish movie that has some terrific cinematography. Angles, shadows, lights, pace and all the elements that make a terrific movie. Then there is the plot. The plot is more lost than a lost plot on an Ed Wood script in an Islamic Studio the day before Ramadan commences.
OK. It might not be quite that bad, but there are holes in it that you could step through sideways. The Premise of a trained killer using one Taxi driver to run around L.A. for 5 hits in one night is the benchmark. If you can swallow that you needn't read further.
Call me demanding, but what's the point in watching a mean -mutha-movie if the mean mutha is really a bad ass amateur who has a soft spot for congenial cab drivers.
From the inconceivable rebellion by Maxx to the achingly dull mobile battery going flat, this film manages to do the opposite of it's intent and suspend belief.
For a real slice of Tom Cruise as a bad ass (with the added bonus of depth) look no further than Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Magnolias'.