Thrilling and beautiful.

Rating: 9/10 (25 July 2009)

Now this is a excellent blend of popcorn entertainment and thought-provoking story telling. We have Tom Cruise playing calm, collective hit-man Vincent who is taking a backseat to submissive cab driver Max (Jamie Foxx) as he guides him around town to take out five targets within a night with the police on both men's trail as Vincent unintentionally leave bloodshed behind him where ever he goes. Michael Mann takes us to the dark and grimy yet strikingly beautiful sides of Los Angeles for a ride we will never forget. The digital cinematography gives the film a crisp, clean vision of the City of Angels and presents it in breathtaking fashion while balanced out with nightmarish landscapes the duo have placed themselves into during the course of the night, and does that in a sense of real-time filming. The two leads are great and fill out every aspect of their characters in their roles and the absorbing banter between them is definitely the real action within this film. 10/10