Bad, frosted Michael Mann hair

Rating: 2/10 (10 January 2006)

For one thing, if anybody believes that squeaky-clean Tom Cruise is a hit man, they need to get their heads examined. And his hair frosted sliver like that. Puh-leese....
Halloween, anybody? (laughs)
And Jamie Foxx spends the whole time grimacing and making faces for the camera. This is the guy who won the Oscar last year, right???
And of course you have to have a Halle Berry-type in the form of Jada Pinkett Smith that Jamie Foxx has to save. Now why would a high-priced lawyer like her be interested in a flunkie cab driver like Jamie Foxx? More standard same-ol same-ol, I guess... (yawn...)
I thought that was idiot Will Smith's job? No?
The cliché ending is typical. Now if Mann went for a shocker like in Se7en, I'd go up a few marks and be mighty impressed.
But naww, he played it safe. No mo silver frosted hair.
It's also shot using a DV camera instead of film. Is there something wrong with film? Please go back to film until they can make digital look like film and not digital. I suppose all the techno Gen Y types thinks it looks good, but I think the whole lighting and camera thing looks like crap, especially on the big screen. I thought I was going blind since everything seemed out of focus. Maybe it looks better on DVD. Who knows...
Sorry Mann but you blew it. Grade: F
2 out of 10