Tom Cruise as a bad guy is appealing but Collateral is a dud!

Rating: 3/10 (18 October 2004)

Tom Cruise plays Vince, a hit man who gets into Max's (Jamie Foxx) taxi and intends to use the taxi as transport between the five assassinations he is about to undertake. However once Max's realized what he is involved in he is a reluctant accomplice.
While the idea of Tom Cruise playing a bad guy was appealing, I was completely disappointed by his performance and the movie itself. I've decided that I'm over Tom Cruise and I won't bother to see another of his movies - he doesn't add anything of value. In addition, there were far too many scenes where nothing happened and some of the camera work was shaky and out of focus. And it that wasn't enough, there were several moments where events were too coincidental to be plausible, including Cruise's bullet-proof character. I give 'Collateral' 3/10.