Could have been great

Rating: Null/10 (22 August 2004)

I was really pumped to see this movie. I am quite a big Cruise fan, and i think his recent movies have been really expanding his acting abilities. The movie started out quite solid with Foxx's character build up with his customers. But then, Jada Pinkett Smith gets out of the car and Cruise gets in and...oh my god, i just figured out the ending.
I was hoping the entire movie that no, it wouldn't be this cliche. I mean, the movie was going strong for a solid hour or so. Amazing character development, and it was very stylisticly directed. Tom Cruise even manages to leave me with an open mouth over how much of a bad ass he is in the nightclub scene.
**SPOILERS** Just when i was thinking the movie would opt out of Jamie Foxx finding out that Tom Cruise's last hit was (what??) Jada Pinket Smith, the same woman Foxx got to know in the first scene, it didn't. From there it becomes a poorly exicuted cat and mouse chase from building to train which is nothing i haven't seen a million times before.
**END SPOILERS**
It's really a shame, because the rest of the movie was quite good.

6/10