Stylish slick thriller

Rating: 7/10 (21 February 2005)

A very stylish and slick thriller that really excites, mainly due to the great performances by Jamie Foxx and Tom Cruise - in a very unusual role here.
Foxx plays LA cab driver Max who, when dropping off sexy lawyer Annie (Jada Pinkett Smith), picks up a passenger who proves to be more than a little difficult! Vincent (Tom Cruise) is a hit-man, and orders Max to take him to 5 different destinations throughout the night, to carry out his hits.
What you may think could run out of steam pretty easily, really keeps the viewer glued to the screen and guessing how Max will get out of the nightmare situation he has found himself plunged into. Cruise is great as the cold hearted killer, and still oozes his usual charisma in a totally alien role to what he's used to.