Probably the first film in ages where I've heard of the guy who played the bad guy, but not the guy who played the good guy

Rating: Null/10 (24 September 2004)

OK...on one side we have Tom Cruise's Vincent. Ice-cool, stylish, sort of guy it would be good to grab a chat with over a few beers, slight problem, he's a highly paid assassin with blatantly dyed grey hair.
On the other side you have Max, a cabbie played by a guy called Jamie Foxx. A black LA Joe Average on a life burn-out, his dream of running a limo service looks like it's going nowhere - even if he might get to go out with a high class prosecutor.
Spoilers from here on in:
Vincent gets in Max's cab with the intention of taking out five people involved in a drugs case. Max has no idea that his ice-cool fare who is paying over the odds is a hit-man...until his first victim crashes on to the roof of his cab(you'd have thought Vincent would have been more careful). But still, Vincent has got four more targets.
Of course if you're Joe Average then getting a chance to screw up a highly paid assassin's plans would be pretty cool. Max tries this with varying degrees of success, at one point indirectly giving himself a lifeline more by sheer fluke than anything else only for Vincent to still be one step ahead of the game.
Sooner or later, this pot's going to boil over and Max's cab pays the price.
And yes the final one on one to protect Max's new girl does have Cruise doing his best impersonation of the original Terminator from T1, but it still works.
Overall, the feel of nighttime LA is smooth, the matchup between the main two players getting in each other's heads is class and this film is worth checking.