Thumbs up Cruise!!

Rating: 8/10 (22 October 2005)

Almost every movie with Cruise I happened to be inflicted with I found bad: minority report, war of the worlds, the last samurai, mission impossible 2. (sorry didn't see vanilla sky). I feared I was some kind of a Cruise hater.
Not SO my friends.
In this movie Cruise is a bad guy and I liked him a lot. (does this say something?) I must confess I have a soft spot for film noir type of movies, and although I hesitate to name this movie a film noir, I think it has much of that in it.
We have a sort of a femme fatale (Annie), a cynical dark mood, with accompanying tag lines, the cast are basically losers (Vincent and Max)more or less fighting for survival. A slow decline of moral. It is all in here.
At some moments the movie is amazing silent. The action takes places from evening to dawn with some of the evening/night/morning silences actually played out. Or to say it differently guys: it is at moments without action and words.
In all it's nicely done and a thumbs up for Tom.