great movie with late night feeling

Rating: Null/10 (23 August 2004)

I saw this movie during the day. With the high def video feel, it had
the feeling you get when you are in a foreign land, can't sleep, and
end up watching the hotel tv into the wee hours. The grittiness of
the video contrasted nicely with the sleek LA imagery, though I
can't remember banal LA ever looking like this. NYC, Tokyo, yes.
but not LA. Just shows you what skillfull cinematography will do. I
don't know why this movie has a slow following, it really took me by
surprise. Suspend credibility, it has plot holes but the
coincidences, the connection with different people in different
places coming together and only the audience aware of the
coincidence was a rewarding sensation we often don't get from
movies. Extremely well done movie and I highly recommend you
see it. An added bonus was the trailer was nothing like the movie.
Its awful when the preview is a mini movie, why watch when you
know the story already? The rest are spoilers. I thought Cruise
played well. He flipped between charm, introspection, and cold
efficiency so well that you get an idea what a pure psychotic thinks
like. I believed he had every intention of killing Max in the end,
never mind his charm.