Disappointment from the beginning.

Rating: 5/10 (14 August 2004)

**Scattered spoilers** for a scattered movie here on out.
In the beginning you experience the life of the taxi driver (Foxx), cleaning his car, driving in the city, picking up people, taking a break to eat. All-in-all not too surprising.
One of the fairs he picks up just happens to be a pretty woman (lawyer) that will later turn out to be the final victim. We get to see the entire cab ride of the pretty woman and the taxi driver, along with their conversation and his funny remarks which finally lands him her business card. This is important because he needs a number to phone to warn her that Cruise is coming to kill her.
Back to the beginning. So after Cruise shoots his first victim (on the 4th floor), he crashes out the window and onto the taxi, oops. Cruise has to hide the body so he gets the help of the taxi driver to put the body in the trunk. The question is, assuming someone wouldn't see a body crashing out a window, assuming the taxi driver would really help, why didn't he take a cheap shot at Cruise?
Then we ride to a penthouse. Then we ride to a Jazz bar. And midway through the movie we visit his mom in the hospital, which I guess is supposed to be the collateral. Cruise and Foxx are apparently always side-by-side, which makes one wonder if there was no opportunity for Foxx to sucker punch Cruise. Next we ride to a club called Fever.
The "Fever" Club scene was probably the worst. From the time the first bullet is fired, 5 minutes later people are still running back-and-forth on the same dance floor, and the guy who is on Cruise's list is still sitting at his table waiting to be shot.
Cliché list
-getting stopped by cops who get another call to go somewhere else
-throwing a garbage can to break a window but it doesn't break
-last bullet cliché (where both people run out of bullets and are face-to-face)
-invincible attacker (Cruise is shot but gets up and keeps going)
-crashing the taxi to escape
Is he a smart guy or a dumb guy? It is really hard to connect with the taxi driver at an emotional level because his character kept switching between being portrayed as stupid (deserving of sympathy) and being portrayed at the over qualified taxi driver who can think his way out of any situation.
The problem with this movie is that in each situation there were a million different ways it could've went, but in each situation the director always took the least probably to really occur. Thus, putting everything together in this fashion makes for a very unbelievable movie and leaves the audience in a state of boredom. 5 / 10