I know what thiis movie needed

Rating: 8/10 (26 December 2004)

OK, I've watched the movie, read the reviews on here, thought about it for a day and it finally hit me. Mann's vision, directing, Tom cruise and Jamie Fox's acting were all flawless. The characters were all developed very well, not to mention the relationship that these two developed. What I think would of have made the movie better is if Tom Cruises's character's (Vincent) ethics laid closer to that line where we would consider him either a good guy or a bad guy. For example, many of us were able to sleep after watching this movie knowing that he was basically a bad guy, he killed innocent bystanders (the cool cop, the security guard at the end, bystanders, etc.) so we were more easily able to simply put him in the bad-guys bracket. I'm not sure if everyone is familiar with the Punisher, but he's basically the same thing, except that the majority of us would consider his ethics to be justified (he's after the bad guys but would not shoot innocent bystanders). I think the philosophical conversations between the two would of had a stronger impact if we it wasn't that simple to decide if we agreed with Tom Cruises's character. For example, if he brought up the question to Max: what does he think about being able to kill three bad guys at the cost of killing one innocent bystander? Would he consider that to be a worthy cause??? Now THIS would of have mad me pick my noodles for weeks...