A film I like with Tom Cruise in it!

Rating: 8/10 (2 January 2007)

I fell in love with Michael Mann's perspective of urban architecture and how it's transferred to film after watching 'Heat'. This film sets you in a great city(L.A.) with great music(Audio Sound plus more)with all the night creatures. Jamie Foxx is amazing and Tom Cruise's Supporting Role is spectacular right to the point. It's as if the role for Tom Cruise was made for him(not at center stage). I have watched this film at least 4 times and sit in awe even though I know the outcome. Mann seems to get the exact angles and creates the urban lighting that puts you right at the scene. I haven't seen 'Miami Vice' yet, but I fully endorse Michael Mann's abilities as a film director and suggest this film as a keeper for any movie collection. It may not be the best Mann film, but surely ranks with 'The Last of the Mohicans' for detail and stylized violence that keeps you in disbelief that these events follow an average guy working a honest living. The only negative point I found was the ending. Foxx's character did more than he was probably capable of, and Cruise's character slipped up when he had did greatness throughout the film. I enjoyed the concept of the storyline that many films lack. Hollywood should try making stories into films rather than finding ways to dazzle us with special effects and amazing computer graphics. Well done Michael Mann!