Not like any other night!

Rating: Null/10 (27 August 2004)

Fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. Tom Cruise did a superbly great job and Jamie Foxx surprisingly wasn't bad either. This one has bumped A Few Good Men from my list for #1 favorite Cruise films. I think he will at least be nominated for Best Actor for Collateral if not win and I would like to see that happen very much. I was sure that Cruise would put on a show but I wasn't sure that Foxx would but he did. I didn't have a very high opinion of his ability before I watched this so he scored a few points with me with his performance. All I can say is THANK GOD they didn't cast Adam Sandler as Max the audience would have gone out and collectively hired a guy like Vincent to take care of him once and for all. Enough humor but they did not go overboard. It did take the edge off a little in what Vincent was doing which kept the movie from becoming too dark. I was a little surprised by the ending but I didn't feel that was bad, maybe not what I would have done, but certainly not bad. Michael Mann is showing some considerable skill in his directing he's moving up in the world. And using the digital photography really added to the experience. Brilliant. Go see this one. Best film this year.