Good watch but unsatisfying

Rating: Null/10 (20 September 2004)

This film starts great, with Jamie Foxx riding around in his cab and is reminiscent of Taxi Cab Confessions. He picks up Jada and the two have immediate chemistry with a superb script. He picks up Tom and the film then takes flight. What transpires is a 2 hour rush of mayhem as Tom Cruise whizzes around the city killing people. The dialogue is witty, tom Cruise is well... Tom Cruise (which in my opinion is absolutely great), Jamie foxx is great here too.I should mention that practically the whole movie is shot digitally and the cinematography is absolutely stunning.
Where the film falls flat on its face is the last 20 minutes. It turns into a corny rush ride where Tom becomes a superhuman of sorts jumping train tracks like Hellboy, and Jamie foxx turns into nothing short of Daredevil. Jamie's motives are totally unrealistic, but so what, it's cinema right? Wrong. Cinema in itself is escapism, but we need just enough reality on some level in order to relate to the characters. So to begin wielding a gun and risking your life for a girl you met briefly totally threw me out of the movie.
All in all, it's a good watch, but what could have been a timeless thriller is sabotaged by an all too predictable ending and swiftly becomes a mere "good Saturday flick".