In a word

Rating: 1/10 (14 February 2005)

The worst film that I can remember seeing in a long time. Experience has taught me to stay away from the slapstick "comedy" and teen movies, but this was sluggish, hard to understand (due to poor diction) garbage of the first degree.
Cruise must have been desperate for money to agree to "act" in this pile of manure....
The opening scenes set up the film to an extent and for a while it looked good - the Taxi driver had a warmth and the female passenger (leter to be the last on the hit list) jelled well and there was a chemistry between them.
Once the carnage began though the reason for the killings and the way in which they were done was not as clever as the trailer depicted. Some of the characters parts in the carnage seemed unclear, for a while you could not tell the goodies from the baddies....
My wife fell asleep half way through and has declared that she would have to think twice before watching another DVD with Cruise in, we liked Last of the Samurai and loved that - but this latest attempt was futile. I just hope he is in better form in War of the Worlds - a film I want to see having enjoyed the old version.
GARBAGE